Yellow Winds

Giclee print of an original oil painting. The artist's intention was to fill the painting with trees and leaves, all in motion and to keep it loose. He never imagined that after making a few marks with pinks and yellows, that the oil would essentially paint itself! It was as if the oil was making demands. He insisted on keeping the slanted composition design for the top and bottom but was open to what the colors would be.

It didn’t take long to find out what direction that was going to take. He started with some medium yellow leaves and very quickly, it was if the painting was pushing him: for a different yellow, now a blue, now grays and whites, then different yellows all over again. The pace was pretty fast, not his usual method, but he happily followed along as more colors were added to what was becoming a lacy wood.

The foreground was painted along with the rest, a result of some of those same yellows lightly mixed together but brighter. All the leaves were swiftly painted in, as if by magic. There was a wonderful potential here and by adding the light tree trunks and branches and new depth and delicacy appeared.

Elliott took a break, came back and added a few darks along the bottom tree line and then the blues in the upper right. It was done and it still seems magical.