Painting Snow Without White

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This windy, cold weather put me in the mood to paint some snow, but a couple of weeks ago, by son knocked my only white pastel off the easel breaking it into tiny tiny pieces. So what do you do?  I've always heard from other pastel artists to never use white because it makes your painting dull, but if you have to use it, use it only for highlights.  Well I didn't even have white for the highlights, so I looked at my collection of pastels and chose my lightest blue for the whitest snow and light gray and blue/violet for the shadows.  I think it turned out pretty convincing.

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