After doing the series of small pastels from my Atic window of my tree line and watching the scenery change with the weather I decided to a large painting as a culmination of the series Corner of My World . March has graced us with a large snowfall and it is snowing again today promising another large snowfall so I could continue on my large painting. Believe it or not although it it very dark there are shadows . If you stare out too long the snow glare actually hurts your eyes . I was almost considering my sunglasses even though it is dark and there is no snow . I showed the painting to a friend and she said it was a pretty painting . I thought about that for awhile . Not only have I not really painted snow scenes before , I’m not known for painting pretty paintings . My paintings are usually rough ,dramatic surrounding ocean scenes with dark rounds and alittle on the dark side and slightly moody. They are always beautiful to me and I have won awards and sold paintings . But that word bothered me . I looked outside . It was dark the ravine behind the trees was dark and moody ,the trees were heavy with wet snow . This is where my heart and my head conflict . I really looked at my subject . Is it really any different than rocks and water . There has to be drama in this scene for the viewer and myself . So I looked ,listened to my heart and head and I think I am finished now . It’s a good question . For myself and other artists . Sometimes we look at a painting and ooh and ah and say it’s so beautiful . It’s so well done . But to paint a pretty painting. That is not me . I have to have drama and passion in my painting.