Landscapes on a Foggy Day

Foggy Day, 5x7

Foggy days are very low in color, very grey, how should I approach painting them?


Recently we had a super foggy day with very low visibility. I used the weather as an opportunity to go to the park and take some fog filled reference photos. There is so much white and grey and everything is so muted--how should one approach painting a foggy day?

My sky is a very muted purple blue. The far trees are muted green and the water is light blue green. The darkest colors were the vertical middle trees which reflected in the water. Really the only color in the painting is the foreground brush of umber and ocher. And yes, the white ground is snow, it was a cold rainy foggy snow-on-ground day! Brrr! My husband says this painting should give you goosebumps from the cold.

I have many more fog reference photos, I will definitely try to paint a foggy landscape again. I still believe that there are more muted nuances to capture...