Golden Grove

I painted a small pastel version of this view several years ago that I've always liked and decided to try it in this large format in oil. Since this piece relies heavily on the mark-making aspects and edge variety, the challenge was to create similar effects that I liked from the pastel version but with oil paint. After some frustration, I had to simply let oil paint be oil paint. The more I pushed myself with the painterly mark-making variety that’s specific to oil paint, the more I enjoyed the painting! I also pushed myself to use a slightly livelier color palette to capture the strong light.