'Go Hard Or Go Home'
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.
 
 
Go to your fields and gardens and you will learn
that it is the bee's pleasure to gather honey from the flower.
But it is also the pleasure of the flower to give its honey to the bee.
Because for the bee a flower is a source of life,
And for the flower a bee is a messenger of love,
And for both, bee and flower, giving and receiving pleasure
is a need and an ecstasy.
 
Khalil Gibran