Snowy Cottage by the Stream Winter Painting Frame:Dark ash drawing the eye without overwhelming

drawing the eye without overwhelming a calm scheme

the whole composition trembles with light

The trees lean and cross at gentle angles

An upward glance into the canopy that keeps a holiday brightness within reach

and the mood it casts is hushed

Snowy Cottage by the Stream Winter Painting Frame:Dark ash drawing the eye without overwhelmingA timber cottage rests among frosted trees beside a slow, mirror still stream that carries the soft blush of a winter sky across its surface. Golden reeds and tufts of dried grass push up through the snow along the water's edge, lending warmth to a scene otherwise hushed in white and pale lilac. Behind the little house, delicate branches blur into a haze of rose and powder blue, painted with the gentle wash of watercolour. The whole composition