About The Artist:
Alex Schloss
ALEX SCHLOSS was born in New York City and is a painter noted for his uniqueness of style... an almost 3 dimensional quality achieved with a careful texturing and layering of oil paint mixed with sand and marble dust. It is considered a mixed media oil painted frescoe. The richness is balanced by another technique, simplistically clean pastel-like portraitures, executed in oil on raw linen. Here he captures the character of life of the subjects...
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About The Medium:
Oil
Process of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder. Commonly used drying oils include linseed oil, poppy seed oil, walnut oil, and safflower oil.