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After looking at paintings of snow scenes created by artists who lived many years ago, it’s time to look at some pictures that have been painted by contemporary artists. What these people have in common is that, apart from being superb concept artists, they are also all featured in the blogroll (see left), and in most cases they are colleagues or ex-workmates.

As an introduction, (and a continuation of the Russian theme established in the last post) we kick off with an amazing photographic image of a snowbound church on the island of Kizhi. If you look very carefully you will see that despite the church being a world class architectural treasure, the place is in a lamentable state of repair. The photo is old, however, so let’s hope that someone has splashed a bit of cash on restoration since it was taken.
On with the pictures…. Or as my partner says: “Here you go”

Kizhi Island Orthodox Church In The Snow
(Click the thumbnail to enlarge, as usual)

Gora
Painted by the very talented Andrei Riabovitchev

Another one by Andrei, featuring complementary colour contrasts.

Frozen Lake

Here’s Daniel Cacouault’s contribution to this collection of snow scenes. It’s a concept design from a commercail for Coca Bears. -

Coca Bears
I love those slick, glowing ice reflections in the foreground.

Here’s a couple from the boss, Hans Bacher, who can really lay it down fast and simple. And it stays down….

Low Sun

Distant Ridge
This picture perfectly illustrates Hans’s planar approach to composition.

Now for a couple of Neil Ross’s snow themed pictures -

Two Wolves

Thorgal

And finally, Clive Powsey socks it to us with this beautiful study of positive and negative shapes. So simple and yet ….

Cornice

I hope there’s no one in the blogroll who will take offence at being left out of this little review.
It’s late, and have to get up early to roast a turkey to feed 14 people!

Happy Christmas one and all!