Inside My Studio: Painting a Persimmon Tree in Fall (Part 4)

There’s a sound I could listen to all day—my metal palette knife tapping and scraping against my wooden palette as I mix paint. It’s like a quiet rhythm that sets the mood for creation.

But the real magic happens when the paint start mixing directly on the canvas. I’m laying such thick brush strokes down on the painting that they then start to mix together in unexpected ways which gives the painting such vibrancy.

This is how I’ve been able to bottle up that look of trees in autumn that are turning from green to orange to brown, and also that look of persimmons that have all the oranges, yellows, and reds in itself.

Your artist friend,
Jennifer Marie Keller