Mistral in Cobalt and Gold

A lone tree leans hard into the wind at the water's edge. Its crown breaks apart into leaves of gold, cobalt and vermilion that stream across a pale silver sky, while the far shore dissolves into mist and the dark trunk pools into its own reflection below.

Every leaf is laid on with a palette knife, thick enough to catch the light and cast a small shadow of its own. The title borrows the name of the mistral, the strong, cold wind that sweeps down the Rhône valley to the Mediterranean.

Painted by hand to order in oil on cotton canvas with raised palette-knife texture. Apart from the room visualizations, every photo here shows the painted canvas in the studio. The original was painted at 35 × 51 in, so 36 × 48 in is the recommended size; every size keeps the same composition.

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