Pears - 8 X 10 oil on acid free specialized paper
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Strawberries - 8 X 10 oil on acid free specialized paper
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Roxbury Apples - 8 X 10 oil on acid free specialized paper
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Unless otherwise requested, I prefer to paint botanicals on museum quality acid free cotton paper known as “Rag”. This technique, Peinture a L’essence, was often used by the Impressionist Edgar Degas. By painting the oil on acid-free specialized paper, the oil is pulled out of the paint and the result can give a pastel or watercolor appearance.

While Degas did not place his paintings under glass, I do, as a protection to both the paper and the painting. All paintings arrive fully matted and framed.