Imaginary snowscape

4 December 2025

Video - Level ◆◆◆

December already! Yikes!! But that means it's totally fine to do our first snow scene for winter. It's always so lovely to switch seasons in the studio :-)In today's lesson we paint an imaginary scene, one from my head. There are lot of great things to explore in this almost abstract scene - soft misty background in late autumn colours, stylised trees and then an icy road or stream that has pretty reflections.

It's not a complicated painting, so it's a good one if you're dusting off the brushes after a break, or you're just starting to paint in watercolours. Those of you who are more advanced, can take this idea and run with it, by creating a lot more detail in the trees.

And, of course, if you don't have your Christmas cards sorted yet, then you could use this one.

Happy painting!