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Every Dream Is Real (Framed) Painting
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Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 24 W x 28 H x 2 D in
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Every Dream Is Real - Original Oil Painting Canvas size 16x20 (overall framed size is approximately 24x28) Young ballerinas, patiently waiting to take the stage. I’ve always admired the work of Edgar Degas, and his ballet paintings. I wanted to test the waters with my impasto style that I’ve grown to love, and paint this group of young ballerinas. I used a palette knife for most of the painting, and added just a slight bit of detail with a brush. That fine detail would not have been possible with the palette knife, but was needed to get the look that I was after. To add a little extra to the painting, I meticulously placed bits of diamond dust into parts of the dresses that doesn't necessarily show in the photos. It’s more visible in real life, but is very difficult to catch through the lens of a camera because of the indirect lighting that I need to use to capture the entire painting. The painting is mounted in a champagne/silver, wooden ornate frame. The frame can sometimes take on a more golden color in warmer light. I was initially going to use a lesser ornate frame, but after comparing it with this one, there was no question of which one looked best. I love the way the entire piece turned out.
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Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:24 W x 28 H x 2 D in
Frame:Other
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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Patrick Riley is a Kentucky-based artist & photographer. His oil paintings embrace abundant layers of paint applied mostly through the use of a palette knife in an impasto-type style. He often uses pigments from natural elements of the Earth in his paint to pay his respect to nature. Patrick’s distinctive style combines both symmetry and chaos. His use of bold and vivid colors arranged throughout the painting in heavy patterns form a breathtaking composition. Patrick grew up painting and drawing with a distinguishing talent for capturing objects from a unique perspective. “I want the observer to view it as if they are seeing the subject matter for the first time,” Riley explains. “I feel that you need to believe before you can see, and believing that this particular dreamlike world exists allows me to see it and paint it,” he adds. Being an admirer of poetry and a poet himself, Patrick likes to incorporate the use of poems & prose into his artwork. “The painting has so much more to say,” he states. “I don’t feel like the story ends when the last drop of paint hits the canvas.” With this being the case, most of Riley’s work also consist of an analogous story that belongs to each piece, usually inscribed onto the back of the canvas.
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