Start with an underpainting of burnt sienna and a little white and stain the entire canvas.  Mark your horizon line where water meets land and  mark where the water begins after the triangular sliver of snow on the waters surface.  Now lay in the mid tone of indigo blue (adding white and raw umber to create the color.  The just add raw umber to the blue for the dark parts of the water.  At the top begin adding in some white in the areas of snow in the background trees.
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