Original artwork description:

An underwater nude, almost life size and swimming over a coral reef. For me painting coral is an interesting development and it has certainly opened my eyes to what is on the sea bed.

A gallery wrapped canvas with the painted surface continuing around the edges. Straight on your wall, no framing required.

This linen canvas is stretched over a composite stretcher frame. The combination of wood and aluminium creates an incredibly durable and robust structure that will not warp or twist even at this size.

I also want to add that although this original painting has been categorised as being 'photo-realism' within the style definitions available on this site. I consider it just to have a high degree of realism. Difficult to see on a screen that does actually reduce the scale of a large painting to the size of a photograph. There are a few close-up images of details from the painting that I hope will illustrate what I'm trying to describe about the painted surface because there are some textures visible in the brush work (which wouldn't normally be the case for a photo-realist painting).

In a nutshell, and in my world, this painting sits just to the painterly side of photographic style paintings.

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Materials used:

professional quality oils on linen canvas over a aluminium & wood stretcher

Tags:

#seascape #nude #blue #coral #natural #swimmer #marine #under the #statement art #under water #swimming underwater #xl painting #nude swimmer