This is a docked houseboat and snow, based on artwork from the 1930s by Hasui Kawase.
Acrylic on watercolor postcard (10.5×15.5 cm), in a white wooden frame.
It took me about 3 hours, including painting the mat in pale blue so that only the snow and the frame would be white.
To thank the people who attended my mother’s funeral and the people who sent condolences cards, I made and sent (22) homemade cards on watercolor paper, using acrylic paint pens to create three patches of solid colors and a black pen to draw the outline of a monstera leaf in the foreground:
