Imagined fall orchard in fauvist / expressionist style. Strongly textural with mpasto knife strokes.
Medium: Oil paints, using alkyd medium to (Alkyd medium greatly reduces drying time, as well as increasing luminosity and creating a more flexible paint film, less liable to brittleness and cracking with age.)
Walnut oil alkyd medium has been used here too, to create wrinkles and whorls in the paint film. This creates a "fingerprint" effect seen most clearly in areas with red-orange paint rubbed over this underlying textured ground.
Dimensions: 183 x 256 mm, or 7 ¼ x 10 & 1/8 inches
Work date: July 31st 2010.
Approximate price in Euros: 36
In GBP: £30.
Signed and dated on the back and sent with a certificate of authenticity.
A small signature monogram will also be added to the front corner of the painting.
Please allow up to 14 days before shipping for the impasto areas of the painting to be touch dry. This smaller work will be carefully wrapped in protective paper and polythene sleeve in a sealed, rigid reinforced cardboard mailer and sent via International Airmail. Please bear in mind that this cheaper option means that the painting will not be insured or tracked and may take some time to arrive.
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