'Can Turn Tides'
By Riad HATTOUTI
© 2020
Triptych of 3 Panels - Oil on Canvas
30W x  90H x 2L (X3)
 
This painting was done using premium thick body oil paint, professionally stretched canvas. Manipulated with touches of paint with both brushstrokes and knife strokes (spatula), with the fat on lean technique, sometimes I wait weeks for the base coats dry to work on it, the result is diametrically opposed to other techniques: working my paintings with knife and playing with time allowed me to develop my own writing, but it took time, work and patience.
 
 
But I tell you, not in my sleep,
but in the full lucidity of noon,
that the wind does not address the giant oaks more gently
only to the finest blades of grass.
That alone is great
the one who turns the voice of the wind into a melody
made sweeter by his love.
 
Khalil Gibran