Watercolors of Winter
by Sue Robishaw

I do most of my studio painting in the winter, which is an unending source of ideas,  inspiration, and beauty. 
A walk outside or a glance out a window surrounds me with an incredible black and white kaleidoscope of color.

Apple Valley Snow
10 x 12  (framed 16 x 20, fruitwood frame) 
(inspired by a january of beautiful snows and a wild apple tree in our front woods)


  

wintercycle
11 x 14
(a beautiful icicle out the front window, winter woods out the back window, and the wonderful magic of winter)

Winter Touch
12 x 14  (framed 18 x 21, blacked cherry frame)
(the snows deepen and vegetation and trees become isolated islands)

Winter Chiaro
 10 x 14 (framed 17 x 21, black metal frame) 
(winter is one day full of color and the most fascinating stark black and white the next)

Winter Spring Magic
14 x 17  (framed 21 x 24, blacked cherry frame) 
(the colors of snowmelt are wonderfully intense as the ground starts to show and the tree shapes are at their best)

Spring Break
 14 x 17 (framed 21 x 24, cherry frame) 
(from an  impression of the view of the Lake in early spring driving into Marquette)

Blizzard Cabin
14 x 13  (framed 21 x 20, oak frame)
(inspired by our cabin/shop during a snowstorm)

Song of Winter
 11 x 15  (framed 17 x 21, blacked cherry frame) 
(the birds get the stage for singing in the spring and summer, but the trees are the chorus in the winter)

 

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Beyond the Common   of Flowers & Butterflys   of the Natural   the Sandhill Crane   Winter Gallery    

  Please note that the colors showing on your monitor will not match exactly the colors of the paintings. Not only is a lot lost in the translation, monitors differ in their color rendition. We can only offer a fairly close representation. If you would like to see a picture of a painting with its frame, let me know and I will send it via email, regular mail, or put it on the website.

    Except where noted, matting is of a white or offwhite color, and both matboard and backing board are 100% cotton, archival museum board. A few early works are matted with quality acid-free matboard with backboard of acid free foamcore. All watercolors are originals, and no prints have been made of them (nor are available). Most work is framed and glazed with glass.

    All work is 100% guaranteed. If you are not satisfied with a piece when you receive it, you can return it to us in original condition, packed carefully as it was shipped to you, via insured UPS or Priority Mail, within seven days, for a full refund. 

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              We do not all operate in the same reality. Each of our realities overlap, like the transparencies of watercolor, with a lot of flow and drips and movement. So we more or less live the same type of event, but each event is lived uniquely as each of us is unique. Such it is with winter, as in all else.            sr

Updated 06/23/2008