Lisa Elley

A Day with Monet, Oil Painting

2021

Artist Comments
Artist Lisa Elley loves painting flowers, as they resonate deeply with her. In this inspiring still life, she boldly mixes pinks, deep red, and yellow. Part of Lisa's signature series using a "deep impasto" technique. In some areas, the paint is over half an inch thick. "With their thick texture, it's as if the flowers are leaping off the canvas," says Lisa.

About the Artist
Working almost exclusively with a palette knife, Lisa Elley maneuvers her artistic blade with an uncanny fluidity. Why paint only with the knife? She says, "when I paint with a brush, which I do occasionally, I tend to focus on the detail. With a palette knife I can't focus on the detail too much, so my paintings are looser, and more gestural, with bigger sweeps and strokes." This technique is called wet-on-wet. And it seems to be quite popular, as she has been bestowed the title "Knife Queen" by her facebook fans. Fun fact: Lisa's high school art teacher told her to study harder at math, as a career in art was "impossible."

Words that describe this painting: spring, still life, flowers, floral, bouquet, Monet, vase, impressionism, still life, flora, representational, oil painting, pink

A Day with Monet
Lisa Elley
Oil painting on stretched canvas
Painting wraps around edges
Varnished and Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front and back
2021
10 in. h x 8 in. w x 1 in. d
0 lbs. 6 oz.