Customizing paper size for landscapes that explore white space, tones, and highlights.
The Winter Acrylic Landscapes series brings a sense of quiet serenity to abstract expression through restraint and intentional simplicity. Using a minimal color range, soft metallic highlights, and purposeful areas of unpainted paper, each work treats negative space as an active element rather than a background. Created on 14" x 8.5" mixed media paper, the series challenges traditional expectations of format by embracing long, narrow proportions that guide the flow of the composition. The shape of the paper becomes a starting point for each piece, influencing balance, movement, and visual rhythm. This approach reinforces the idea that white space functions as a color in its own right and that artwork can be inherently flexible—easily adapted for customized framing, scaled into prints, translated into cards, or mounted onto alternative surfaces for thoughtful, art-based gift giving.
The Process
Each painting is developed with a carefully limited palette to maintain cohesion and softness throughout the series. One work blends rich crimson, rose pink, and soft blush tones to create warmth beneath a winter hush. Another explores glacier blue, pale ice-blue, and muted frost shades for a cooler, airy presence. Dreaming of a White Christmas combines rosy red, delicate pink, and a subtle whisper of sky blue, balancing warmth and chill within the same composition. Winter's Glacier Blue and Winter's Radiant Red use blue and red on white with metallic highlights. All pieces are built using gentle dabbing techniques that allow layers to remain light, open, and breathable. Gold and silver accents are added sparingly to introduce understated radiance without overpowering the calm surface. Iridescent White Acrylic Paint plays a central role, either mixed with metallics or blended into other hues to create a soft shimmer that enhances luminosity. The constant dialogue between painted areas and untouched paper anchors the process, resulting in compositions that feel expansive, balanced, and intentionally restrained.
Inspiration & Meaning
Rather than depicting winter through literal landscapes or recognizable forms, the series evokes the season through atmosphere, color harmony, and thoughtful restraint. The simplified approach allows viewers to project their own sense of stillness, snowfall, and quiet light into each piece. This versatility makes the artwork well suited for translation across formats, from fine-art prints and stationery to decorative objects and handmade gifts. The designs also extend into functional art, appearing on mugs, soup bowls, and latte cups available through the cHerArtwork store on Zazzle. In these forms, the work becomes part of daily rituals, offering a subtle, calming presence that brings the essence of winter into everyday use.
See Winter Acrylic Landscape Originals: Dreaming of a White Christmas, Winter's Glacier Blue, Winter's Radiant Red
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