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Let the snow paint itself

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Blinding white sunshine cascades from clear blue skies making frozen snowflakes glitter like spectral jewels. Winter's arrival transforms autumn's slumber into a brilliant white blanket on which dark shapes glow. Paint these right, and untouched paper looks like snow.

For good reasons anyone serious about painting nature truthfully must work outdoors. The real world has not only width and height (like a photo) but also depth, volume, infinite atmospheric effects and the sun's full spectrum of light wavelengths. We

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