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Alone With The Poppies (Framed) Painting
United States
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 34 W x 28 H x 2.8 D in
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About The Artwork
Alone With The Poppies - Original Canvas size 24x18 (overall framed size is approximately 34x28) The peace and solitude of being alone in a field of poppies during sunset. This painting started off as an experimentation (with the colors of the sunset) and slowly morphed into what you see now. I added a subtle Phoenix in the colors of the setting sun which signifies my transition into my new life as an artist, while leaving everything else behind. Saying that, this painting is very, very special to me. Each part of the painting had its own challenges, but I wanted to give it a look of pure solitude at the end of a long day. It’s done in a heavy impasto style and was finished off with a light coating of diamond dust and varnish. The diamond dust gives off a slight, yet beautiful sparkle, even in low light. I don’t use this effect in all of my paintings, but only the ones that I feel it matches. Especially, the Phoenix in this case. I added the two large poppies on each side to give the painting more depth. These are done in a heavier style and almost appear to be growing from the canvas. Last, but not least, I used finely ground poppy seeds and mixed them with the red paint to make it even more authentic. It’s all squared off with a beautiful, black ornate frame with cocoa highlights. Note, diamond dust is not glitter, but very small pieces of glass that I’ve hidden inside of the grooves of the paint (created by the palette knife).
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:34 W x 28 H x 2.8 D in
Frame:Black
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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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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