'Having A Good Time'
By Riad HATTOUTI
© 2020
Oil on Canvas
40W x  60H 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.
 
Only great pain or great joy
Can reveal your truth.
If you want to be revealed,
You must either dance naked in the sun,
Either carry your cross.
 
Khalil Gibran