Winter Landscapes

These lovely winter landscapes are created in the style of of contemporary artist and illustrator Jen Aranyi. 

We love the crisp clean lines that so aptly depict these icy landscapes.  

The simple wet on wet watercolor in the sky adds just enough color to these majestic little works of art.

This artist worked out a few winter landscape ideas in her sketch journal before proceeding with her final artwork. 

Here is a full sketchbook page illustrating the usefulness of the sketchbook to develop and work out ideas before moving on to the final artwork. 

As an option, the artist could finish this sketchbook artwork in the future.

Hatching is used to add shadows when using ink, to depict volume and three dimensionality. Also, perspective is attained by varying the tree sizes to indicate distance, the midground, and the foreground. The trees are completely filled in to create a stark contrast with their icy surroundings.

This is a practice sketchbook scene created by one or our younger students. She is learning to work with ink to create hatching for shadows in the mountains and also learning to incorporate perspective into her drawing. 

Here is her final artwork.  

We mounted our geometrically shaped artwork on black sulfite paper to create a nice black border. 

NOTE: We have created artwork in Jen Aranyi's style before. Check out our previous weblog post, Jen Aranyi-Themed Painting to see more. 

Here's another little wintery scene, by a teen artist.  

Watercolor and Tempera on Paper