Sunbelt – Giclée Reproduction

Sunbelt is a Giclée Reproduction in watercolor by Ellen Jean Diederich featuring yellow sunflowers with varied greens. 

Glorious sunflower field line the shelter belts. This painting has beautiful warm colors that complement each other which ties the whole piece together.

Behind the piece: The original color theory was changed to make my painting Sunbelt work. Previously the painting is close to being monochromatic, as the yellow dominates and overpowers the painting. It is truly a very warm painting with analogous colors orange, yellow, and green.  I felt it was too warm and that bothered me enough to change it.  The most logical way to combat warmth is to use cool colors.  Instead of using the compliment of yellow, which is violet, I used a near compliment, blue violet, to work through the painting. This immediately gave relief to this problem.

What helped me was to think back to my original idea for the painting. My interest was the shelter belt of trees next to the sunflowers. The plain field shape really separated the sunflowers from the trees and didn’t seem to add anything. After pondering these issues, I used a technique reminiscent to pointillism to create the perspective of the rows of sunflowers, bringing the field up next to the trees.  I carried the directional lines of the rows forward through the Sunflowers. I love it now.

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