'Don’t Give Up'
By Riad HATTOUTI
© 2020
Oil on Canvas
40W x  40H x 2L
 
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.
 
 
In the fall, I gathered all my sorrows and buried them in my garden. When April bloomed again and the earth and spring celebrated their wedding, my garden was strewn with splendid and exceptional flowers. Khalil Gibran