The lane in snow and mist
I was attracted by all the subtle beautiful colours in the image, taken in snow and mist, down the lane to the gate.
Having done a very quick sketch in my sketchbook to study these colours, I decided to look at the colours used by Monet in his painting “The Magpie” .
sourced on line Dec 2014 from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magpie_%28Monet%29#mediaviewer/File:Claude_Monet_-_The_Magpie_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
Unfortunately once again the French sunshine gives bright and contrasting tones and hence cannot directly be related to the snow in Lancashire..but I decided to go ahead and look at the colours anyhow!
Looking at the colours in the Monet:
I wanted my image to be more misty and less contrasting so needed to keep this in mind perhaps by adding more white to the colours. It is however not easy to study the colours from a computerised image and my printer lost most of the blues in attemtping to print out the picture.
i did however notice that the image of the tree in the far background gave a hint of lilac and pink to the sky and that the trees to the sides gave the mist an orange glow. The path snow had mixes of lilac and blue.
Underlying colours for the picture:
“The lane in snow”
The final image has more diffuse and deeper colours than the original photo and as a point of interest I have moved the gate and added a figure. and narrowed the path to the gate.
I don’t like the final colour …The initial photo is attractive due to its lightness and lilac hint…my final image is too colourful.
playing with creativity 
