FOG IN THE PARK — PALETTE KNIFE Oil Painting On Canvas By Leonid Afremov

FOG IN THE PARK

The art of landscape painting

Although Leonid Afremov is widely known as a great cityscape author, nature paintings hold a prominent place in his art gallery. Creating landscapes requires a great deal of diligence and imagination. You always have to keep your eyes open for a perfect scene worthy of capturing. That doesn’t necessarily need to be a magnificent view that leaves you speechless. As practice shows, beauty often lurks in simple things. It’s very easy to pass by and we often don’t notice the tiny miracles that surround us. Your job as an artist is to notice them and magnify through your talent so that others could see and admire them as well. And Leonid Afremov is obviously good at it. Using vibrant colors and expressive strokes, he can make even the dullest scene bright and captivating.

Variety of seasons

If you skip through Afremov online gallery, you’ll find a lot of creative nature paintings begging to end up on your wall. Like every artist, he has his own preferences that include:

• Rainy night alleys sparkling with colorful reflections.
• Hazy forests dressed in fiery shades of autumn.
• Flower-strewn spring parks under a perfectly blue sky.
• Mellow summer gardens basking in rich sunlight.
• Peaceful rivers views at sunset.

Inside the mist

This particular painting glorifies the melancholic charm of the late fall. Silent and broody, the park is cloaked in milky mist that blurs the silhouettes of trees and lanterns and turns the alley into a white tunnel leading into the unknown. Pitch-black trunks rise solemnly on both sides of the path creating a tall arch filled with vague echoes of the rain. Trapped in this hollow, you can barely see where to put your foot. Shimmering enigmatically in scarce sunlight, the wet surface of the asphalt resembles a quiet river where the bright vessels of the fallen leaves are floating drowsily in autumn reverie. A few red leaves left on the bare tree branches are burning overhead, the last bastion of color and life in this world of perfect stillness. In a minute, the thickening mist will swallow them too, leaving you lost amidst this desolate scenery… In moments like this, you seem to penetrate through layers of reality and grasp the hidden meaning of things. Keep the beauty of this autumn park intact by hanging this marvelous landscape in your room.