'Come From Nowhere'
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.
 

'Just as the value of life is not on its surface but in its depths, things seen are not in their shell but in their core, and men are not in their face but in their heart'   Khalil Gibran