Winter Landscape in oil

I will generally start a landscape with an under-painting, especially if the subject has a complex colour structure or composition.  This is short video describes one method for making a tonal under-painting  in preparation for a winter landscape.

Here is the under-painting created in the first stage of the video:

When I look at a painting subject, I will think about different things as I react to what I am seeing.  I may find the subject poetic, vibrant, disturbing, melancholy....

When I stand in front of my canvas and I have to determine my colour palette, my thinking is quite different.   I think about how to translate the complex colours that I see using pigments and how to get all the colours to work together. I have a difficult problem that I have to solve.  This is the challenge of every painting.  

A good way to tackle this problem is to do a colour study.  It is like a rough draft or the calculations one makes on a scrap of paper.   Part 2 of the Winter landscape is a colour study that takes a look at how solve the colour problem issue.

Here is the colour study at the end of the video: