Sardin Oil Painting Van Gogh Set it above a console

Set it above a console in an entrance hall to greet guests with quiet grandeur

taupe and soft brown

this photograph frames the crown of a single coconut palm against a clear

washed brushwork captures the cool

lending quiet human scale to the towering forms

Sardin Oil Painting Van Gogh Set it above a consoleThis lively oil painting gathers a shoal of sardines in vigorous palette knife strokes, their silvered bodies streaked with blue, ochre and flashes of warm gold. The fish overlap and angle across the canvas, wide round eyes catching the light as they seem to dart through cool, watery blues and greens behind them. Thick impasto gives every scale and fin a tactile, almost sculptural quality. The energetic handling turns a simple subject into a swirl of