'Look In The Mirror'
By Riad HATTOUTI
© 2020
Oil on Canvas
120W 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.
 

'When I stood before you, like a clear mirror, your eyes plunged into mine and contemplated your image. So you tell me: "I love you." But in truth, you loved yourself in me' Khalil Gibran