Original artwork description:

Original artwork, oil painting on linen canvas, portrait of Marilyn Monroe, one-of-a-kind, colorful, and imaginative Marilyn Monroe's canvas wall art.


Type of canvas: linen fabrics, it comes first in terms of strength and not absorbing refined paint oils



Sable brushes; While many other natural and synthetic hairs are used for brushes, nothing has quite matched the quality of sable. A brush head made from kolinsky sable, a Siberian weasel that's hair is said to cost three times the price of gold by weight, is the best for control and pinpoint accuracy.



For solvents, the artist used turpentine, which increases the fluidity of oil paints but makes the binder oil dry faster, also used clove oil as a solvent to delay the dryness of the binder, as it delays the oxidation process.



As a binder, the artist used Linseed oil, which dries to form a strong flexible film, and also Safflower oil(which takes more time to dry).

Artists mixed high-quality pigments with both Binder(linseed oil) and Solvent(turpentine) to create the desired consistency and finish.



Impasto technique; Impasto is a technique used in this painting, where paint is laid on canvas thickly, usually thick enough that the brush or painting-knife strokes are visible, when dry, impasto provides texture.

"Marilyn Monroe Died at age 36 of a barbiturate overdose."

This portrait conveys sympathy for a girl who was born and spent most of her childhood in a total of 12 foster homes and an orphanage. After marrying James Dougherty at age sixteen, she continued her struggles in the movie industry, till the end of her tragedy in 1962 aged only 36 years old of a barbiturate overdose.

Materials used:

oil on linen canvas

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