It’s so snowy out there! Looking out my window at the white sky and white rooftops this afternoon, I wondered if I could show the edge of the rooftops using only the tree branches between them. I was nervous as I was erasing my pencil lines, wondering if you would be able to distinguish the edges of the roofs, but I think it worked! The snow makes everything feel a little more calm and peaceful outside, and this painting also has some of that calm for me.
I painted this for the Chicago Urban Sketchers theme of Negative Space, which is the art term for the “empty” space between objects. Staring out my window at the snow, I noticed that the white was like a blank canvas of empty space, with just bits of trees and houses to define the landscape.
Katie Broussard 
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