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Konstantin Kryzhitsky  was one of the founders of the Society of Russian Watercolorists in 1880. Konstantin Kryzhitsky (1858-1911) Gathering Branches in Winter, signed in Cyrillic and dated ‘K. Kryzhitsky 1903.’  (watercolor and gouache on paper 13¾ x 18½ in. (34.9 x 47 cm.)  In this forest landscape, he uses blobs of white gouache for the active shapes of the snow on evergreen fronds and for the distant sky holes. Most of the tree trunks however are handled with transparent paint.

“Painting is complete as a distraction. I know of nothing which, without exhausting the body more entirely absorbs the mind.” “This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.” “Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle.” “Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument… It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception.” “Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see. “We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box. And for this Audacity is the only ticket.” He was timid about painting until he saw a friend begin to “hurl slashes of paint on an absolutely cowering canvas. Anyone could see that it could not hit back.”  More: “ Painting as a Pastime ” by Winston S. Churchill Online source for Churchill audio More thoughts in my new YouTube video .