Mystic Olive Grove Tuscany, Italy, Painting
- Pastel original artwork
- 13.7 x 19.8 inches (roughly 35 x 50 cm)
- Painted on Italian creme colored paper
- © 2022 Kelly Borsheim
- Available, original or prints, and also the digital file
- Framed upon request
- Prints and Note cards upon request
Turning an ordinary scene into a work of art using extraordinary colors! This old olive tree in Tuscany leans in a strong diagonal away from the grasses in the field. Late afternoon sun caused dramatic lighting. This beautiful artwork has rainbow - like colors : turquoise, pinks, blues, yellows, some orange and red, and slight green.
I have been studying color relationships and with an artist I admire and like Casey Klahn, who says that he wants color to be the voice of the art, over tone even. This is one of my "experiments." I love how it turned out!
Mystic Olive Grove is a pastel artwork, designed to be a bit of a study in geometry and color that I hope that you enjoy.
The two bronze sculptures shown in these mock-up images of art in the home are:
1) Together and Alone, a bronze sculpture of a couple
and
2) Sirenetta, a bronze figure sculpture of a dancing woman with arm extended
Here is my original reference photograph. I took the image in April 2014 when I spent Easter with an Italian family that I know in Casignano, just outside of Scandicci and Florence, Italy in Tuscany: