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Balancing Warm Cool in Snow River Winter Landscape Oil Painting by Josh Clare

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Balancing Warms & Cools in Snow

❄️ Make snow come alive with color. In this 1‑hour winter landscape demo, Josh Clare teaches how to capture the subtle, luminescent warmth in cold snow — and use cool whites to give it real weight and atmosphere. 


You’ll learn how to:

  • 🎨 Balance warm and cool tones in snow to give it richness, variety, and life

  • 💡 Use reflections from a running river to enhance contrast and draw the eye

  • 🖌️ Use soft light and subtle value shifts to create believable snow texture and form

  • 🌬️ Build a peaceful, luminous winter scene that feels quiet, real, and alive


Perfect for advanced landscape painters looking to deepen their understanding of temperature, light, and mood in snow scenes. 🕒 Runtime: about 1+ hours

  • Josh Clare

    Instructor

  • Advanced

    Difficulty
Meet your instructor

Josh Clare

Josh Clare grew up drawing and was rarely without a pencil and paper, but it wasn’t until he began studying art at BYU-Idaho that he began painting. That first oil painting class included a trip to the galleries in Jackson Hole (his first visit to an art gallery or museum) and completely changed the course of his life.
Josh has been supporting himself and his family with art since 2007 after graduation and he thanks God every day for that remarkable blessing. He figures that if he can paint all day, every day, for the next 20 years, eventually he’ll paint something pretty decent.

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