African Penguins Painting

‘African Penguins’ is painted with oils and silver leaf on canvas. It forms part of a series of paintings called ‘In the Balance’ which focused on the magnificence of some critically endangered animals superbly painted in Alexander’s hyper-realistic style. The penguins, which are painted with detail in oils are enjoying swimming near the rocks of Boulders Beach on the coastline of the Cape, the tip of South Africa. The rocks have been textured with a texture paste and manipulated with a pallet knife. Oil paint has been ‘pulled’ over the texture exposing the fine detail that looks just like the rocks found on Boulders Beach. The ‘ocean’ is gilded with silver leaf. The beauty of gilding is that when the artwork is hung on a wall it reflects light and as the light changes throughout the day so does the artwork. The inspiration to paint the African Penguins was to give hope for its survival. To bring it before the viewer and create awareness about the plight of this fragile subject matter. African Penguins are found in Marc’s home town. The colony at Boulder Beach is protected but still remains vulnerable.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:35.4 W x 35.4 H x 1.6 D in

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