Tag: stretched canvas

A fierce cavalier from a Fantasia - the traditional horsemanship & art of combat festival held during certain celebrations in the countries of the Maghreb. Oils on stretched canvas, 30x40 cm.

Fantasia festival

A fierce cavalier from a Fantasia – the traditional horsemanship & art of combat festival held during certain celebrations in the countries of the Maghreb.Oils on stretched canvas, 30×40 cm.

Still life in the Old Dutch Masters style, with the fruits of the Harvest Day. A wicker basket filled with fruits nested in golden hay and rusty autumn leaves, walnuts and chestnuts scattered on a rustic table and a wooden pitcher with fresh cider. Oils on stretched canvas, 50x40 cm

Harvest Day

Still life in the Old Dutch Masters style, with the fruits of the Harvest Day. A wicker basket filled with fruits nested in golden hay and rusty autumn leaves, walnuts and chestnuts scattered on a rustic table and a wooden pitcher with fresh cider. Oils on stretched canvas, 50×40 cm

Seasons: Spring. A clear alpine lake with mountains in the distance, woods, rocks and lush vegetation. Oils on stretched canvas, palette knife painting, 60×50 cm.

Spring is in the air

From the “Seasons” series: “Spring”. A clear alpine lake with mountains in the distance, pine forests, rocks and lush vegetation. Oils on stretched canvas, palette knife painting, 60×50 cm.

A vintage Dutch washerwoman. Oils on stretched canvas, 40x50 cm. Every day scenes by Manu Fine Art

A vintage washerwoman

A vintage Dutch washerwoman, painted after this preliminary sketch. Now she is depicted in her backyard, on a cobbled area, with her zinc washing tub and her manual wringing machine, her cans and her ladles. She has been busy, the clothes she has already done are hung on several clotheslines […]

The white picket fence with rose bushes and filtered shadows. Oils on stretched canvas, palette knife painting, 40x30 cm. One of the loveliest landscapes by Manu Fine Art

The white picket fence

A street under the bright summer sun, with a white picket fence and brick pillars, enclosing a garden with rose bushes. Filtered shadows are dancing on the ground. Oils on stretched canvas, palette knife painting, 40×30 cm

Man looking out the window, oils on stretched canvas, 30x40 cm

Out the window

In the stairwell, a man sitting on the windowsill looks out the window at the plain in front of the building. My first painting after the lock-down, when the pandemic hit. Oils on stretched canvas, 30×40 cm.

Campfire, oils on stretched canvas, 30x40 cm

Campfire

As evening fell, in a clearing in the forest, a team of hikers gathered stones, built a hearth and lit a campfire. In a moment they’ll come back and start telling horror stories. Oils on stretched canvas, 30×40 cm

Underpainting for a verdaccio self-portrait. Oils on stretched canvas, 40x40 cm

Verdaccio portrait, the underpainting

I am currently experimenting a portrait technique used by the Old Masters, called verdaccio. Basically it consists of an underpainting in tones of green (Terra Verde) serving to locate and render the highlights and shadows of the portrait in the most accurate manner, over which it would be applied the […]

The Evangelical Church in Sibiu (Hermannstadt), Romania. Reference photo by Alex Mitrea. Oils on stretched canvas, 40x50 cm

Hermannstadt, The Evangelical Church in Sibiu, Romania

The Evangelical Church in Sibiu, Romania. Another landmark in this historical city of Transilvania, the highly touristic medieval burgh of Hermannstadt. Reference photo by Alex Mitrea. Oils on stretched canvas, 40×50 cm