Snowstorm Moving Away

Color Study - Winter Sky/Water After Snow

Yesterday it started snowing at noon and continued until around 8 PM. As I looked out early this morning, the purple "ocean effect"* snow clouds were still sitting over Provincetown on Cape Cod, and the water was an odd light green-gray color, lighter than the clouds on the horizon.   Occasionally this reversal of light and dark between sky and water occurs. The first little painting shown is a color study done of this pretty early morning light.

Snowstorm Moving Away - Duxbury Beach

Of course with a nice coating of clean white snow, everything looked beautiful.  The accumulation in my coastal area was about three (water logged) inches, and it had already turned to a frozen, solid state overnight.  The great thing about living along the water is that the high tide that follows the snow melts the beach snow, returning it to a sandy (non-skid) surface for walking.  So although the roads were slippery, walking on the beach was fine.

I was treated to the second amazing sky/water/sand color combination of the day.  A muted lavender cloud bank was breaking up, and subtle pinkish winter sunshine started to brighten the snowy beach.   The blue sky was heading in from the west.   The aging seawall looked dark taupe (like the sand) against the ridge of snow. The photo isn't showing it well, but the orange and turquoise in the foreground seawall and sand were some of the colors that made up the taupe.

 * Ocean effect snow occurs when moisture from the "warm" ocean water freezes when it hits the frigid air

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