Lisa Elley

Summer Birch, Oil Painting

2021

Artist Comments
"Whether it's fall, winter, spring, or summer it's always time for some colorful birch!" exclaims artist Lisa Elley. A stand of vivid birch trees glows in a bright green dotted with pink and orange leaves in the foreground. Lisa rendered this piece entirely with the use of a palette knife layering paint with an impressionistic style using her "deep impasto" technique. "It resonates with a poetic symphony of green summer leaves, crisp, bright earthy colors, and textured white bark."

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: birch, trees, nature, landscape, fall, autumn, aspen, forest, mountains, California, woods, plants, impressionism, nature, oil painting, green

Summer Birch
Lisa Elley
Oil painting on stretched canvas
Painting wraps around edges
Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front and back
2021
12 in. h x 12 in. w x 1 in. d
0 lbs. 6 oz.