Description

About The painting

Painting Koi fish is a study in contrasts and edges. The Koi fish reflects a muted version of the sky's color overhead into their white surfaces and vivid colors of red, orange, deep blue and pink, while the water reflects the brilliant or moody sky. When sky-lit Koi fish appear against a deep shadow, there is an exciting contrast of shape. Gentle ripples from the slow moving fish add interesting effects to the scene.

Title: "Koi Tranquility"

Year Created: 2024

Medium: Oil on panel

Original Painting Size: 11 x 14 in

Framing: "Koi Tranquility" is an original oil painting on canvas. The piece arrives unframed.

Style: "Natural Expressionism" is a new style of painting developed by American artist Cecilia Chenault. The style is characterized by realistic, flat brush strokes that are applied without layering, creating clean color or a living appearance to the paintings. The paintings are created with a limited palette of colors, applied with minimal blending or mixing of the subject upon the canvas, the textured background is applied with a painting knife application which adds a dimension of texture. Inspired by classic realism, and post-expressionism, Cecilia Chenault continues the tradition of expressionism into the modern day with her colorful wild nature and landscape paintings which convey subjective emotions and responses to the natural world.