Orchid painting - Austria - Limodorum abortivum - Violet Dinghy (80 x 65 cm)

80 x 65 cm

Acrylic and oil paint on canvas.

The Violet Dingle was one of the first orchid paintings I created in 2020. It is one of a total of 26 orchid paintings in my project "The Orchids of the Danube-Auen National Park," on which I worked from autumn 2020 to autumn 2023. This painting is intended as a "protective image" for the species Limodorum abortivum and is meant to remind us all that nature conservation and species protection are essential!

The flowers of the Dingel are painted in oil paint using the oil on acrylic technique. The painting was sealed with a final varnish.

The artwork measures 80 cm in height (length) and 65 cm in width. The sealed acrylic painting is mounted on a individually tailored, in available in art supply stores Stretched on a stretcher frame (approximately 1.8 cm thick).

The size of the painting makes it ideal as a main picture in a medium-sized room, office, waiting room, etc., which will make it cheerful and elegant and liven it up.

I am increasingly using more environmentally friendly paints and materials.

I frame, prime, and undercoat many of my works myself, including this one. I skip the intermediate step of sanding the canvases, which means the painting is virtually impossible to forge, as the tiny, subtle ridges of the canvas's texture cannot be replicated. For me, these ridges represent an artistic fingerprint! In everyday viewing of the painting, these small bumps are not noticeable.