Original artwork description:

Title: Prelude to Rain

Dimensions: 75x90 cm

Year: 2025

Technique: Oil on canvas, palette knife

Support: Canvas

Signature: Signed at the bottom right

Frame: Not specified

Certificate of Authenticity: Included

Shipping
Since one side is under 100 cm, this artwork will be securely shipped flat or in a reinforced box to ensure maximum protection. We partner with specialized couriers for safe handling and delivery.

ARTIST’S NOTE
“Prelude to Rain” by Antonino Puliafico captures that charged moment just before a summer storm. Swirls of lavender, pink, and soft blues build a sky that seems alive with movement, while the distant horizon shimmers with delicate reflections of approaching dusk. The foreground foliage, with pops of green and red, frames the seascape, drawing the eye to the gentle play of color on the water’s surface.

Puliafico’s expressive palette knife technique adds a sculptural depth to every stroke, transforming clouds and waves into tactile gestures of light and shadow. This painting is both serene and electric—an ode to nature’s power and beauty in a single, transitory moment.

Materials used:

First-rate oil colors of the Florentine brand "DI VOLO" applied with spatula were used for the painting, and the pictorial support is a cottono canvas pre-painted for oil painting with Gesso and Glue.

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#oil painting #fine art #palette knife #summer landscape #vibrant colors #italian artist #art collector #modern impressionism #impasto technique #nature-inspired #expressive strokes #reflective water #joyful palette #refreshing scene