Sardin Oil Painting Van Gogh washed brushwork captures the cool

washed brushwork captures the cool

taupe and soft brown

a hazy mountain rises against a cloud-streaked sky

The pure black ground anchors industrial and minimalist rooms

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

Sardin Oil Painting Van Gogh washed brushwork captures the coolThis 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