Surrounded by Palms – Original Acrylic Painting
$5,975.00
Original Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Features a street lined with Palms in Palm Springs, CA.
Framed Image Size: 34 3/4″ x 42 1/4″
$5975.00
Surrounded by Palms is an original acrylic painting by Ellen Jean Diederich.
Behind the piece: Sometimes something happens when painting that amazes me. In this Acrylic painting of downtown Palm Springs, California, majestic palms line Palm Canyon Drive and you feel “Surrounded by Palms.” To create this feeling, the palm trees were extended past the edge of the canvas, but at the beginning the palms felt inconsequential. That bothered me, so I attacked the sky with rectangular shapes of turquoise and green around the palms. Palm fronds were painted into and over the background shapes and some were actually decreased in size. Within a few strokes, they suddenly gave the impression I wanted. How could that be?
Perhaps the palms took over because the connections were extended through the colored squares. Casting palm shadows onto the buildings also increased their presence. It was interesting to see the changes magnify their strength.
This painting was selected as part of 200 paintings out of 1,300 total entries for the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society Spring International Online Exhibition in 2026. View here: https://www.noaps.org/2026-spring-on-line
