Pacific Palisades – Painting of the Week
Emotional Painting
Last June, while enjoying the beautiful atmospheric views I took photographs on the Pacific Coast Highway as we followed our daughter to purchase a home there. I began painting Pacific Palisades in Fargo and brought it to my California studio to finish. Then the Palisades burned. My heart hurt for the people there. Looking at the painting spooked me. Not knowing what to do, friends suggested I use it as a fundraiser. Our daughter’s house and their two next-door neighbors survived the fire. Their daughter’s school did not. The fire fighters fought the relentless flames and are still today helping the many who were left homeless. So, I am offering Pacific Palisades as a Giclée reproduction as a fundraiser for the Los Angeles Fire Department. The canvas is particularly spectacular!
Most of the cars, road and backdrop were in place. To finish the painting, I had to talk myself through it. ‘Use the process, Ellen,” I told myself, ‘Just paint the trees in the foreground for now, don’t worry or try to force anything…remember its beauty’. The trees were massive. Rich toned-down greens in the foreground started forming and joined into trees. The paint floated into some nearly opaque lines that were unique and encouraging. Amazingly, it was the working in, and working out of the problems placing larger trees in the middle hills that captured the mystery.
Sincerely,
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P.S. The Pacific Palisades was accepted into the Fallbrook Art Center’s 16th Annual Signature Watercolor Exhibition in Fallbrook, California.
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Help the people suffering from the fires. Purchase a Palisades Giclée 30% of purchase price goes to the LA Fire Department.
Order it online or see it at the:
Rancho Mirage Library Show this Saturday
To see all the artists, you need to go to the Rancho Mirage Library first at: 71-100 CA-111, Rancho Mirage, CA 92270
You will be able to see several artists exhibiting there, get a studio tour map & free hand bracelet that allows you into studios. To come to my studio for a super stop with 5 Mission Hills Artists, GPS the Mission Hills Country Club, Rancho Mirage Dinah Shore Gate. Don’t put my address in GPS as it will take you to two gates you can’t enter. Please let the Gate attendant know you are here to see Ellen Diederich at 217 Loch Lomond. Take an immediate right and second right turn. There will be signs at Loch Lomond and balloons at my place.
