Painting titled "Till Death Do Us Pa…" by Sophie Louise Parkhill, Original Artwork, Pastel

Till Death Do Us Part (2022) Painting by Sophie Louise Parkhill

Not For Sale

Seller Sophie Louise Parkhill

Original Artwork (One Of A Kind) Painting, Pastel / Charcoal / Paper on Paper

Artworks classification

One of a kind (OOAK / Original Artwork)

One-of-a-kind works of art are also known as “OOAK” artworks. This means that every work of art is unique and there will never be another identical one.
Dimensions Height 11.8in, Width 16.5in
Artwork's condition The artwork is in perfect condition
Framing This artwork is not framed
Categories Hyperrealism Bird

The painting depicts two Bali Starlings (Bali Myna) which are sadly a species that is now on the IUCN Critically Endangered list due to the massive amounts of illegal entrapments and poaching over the years. The picture encapsulates the strong life long bond that bali starlings share, and offers a beautiful memorial to the Bali Starlings life in the[...]

About this artwork: Classification, Techniques & Styles

Painting Pastel

Pastel is an instrument widely used in plastic arts. Taking the form of a colored plastic stick, it is composed of pigments, a filler (chalk or plaster) and a binder (gum arabic, oil, wax). We mainly distinguish fatty pastels (oil or wax), dry pastels, whether soft or hard. Invented in Europe at the end of the 15th century, this tool was very quickly used by great portrait painters of French royalty, such as Charles Le Brun, Rosalba Carriera, Jean Siméon Chardin or Maurice Quentin de La Tour, who will be considered the "Prince of pastellists", thanks to a method of fixation of which only he knew the secret.

Pastel

Drawing made with a colored stick. It consists of pigments, a charge and a binder. A distinction is made between dry pastels (soft or hard) and fatty pastels (oil or wax).

Charcoal

Drawing made with a branch of Willow or charcoal of charred Europe. It enables to obtain very deep blacks, precise traces, thin or on the contrary very broad, depending on the way it is used.

Paper

Sculpture technique using a light and flexible material forming a thin sheet.

Hyperrealism

Painting which expresses, by means of representation, external reality in a very realistic way.

Technic Painting

Painting is an art form of painting on a surface by aesthetically applying colored fluids. Painters represent a very personal expression on supports such as paper, rock, canvas, wood, bark, glass, concrete and many other substrates. Work of representation or invention, painting can be naturalistic and figurative, or abstract. It can have narrative, descriptive, symbolic, spiritual, or philosophical content.

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Bali Starling Myna Bird Bird Watching

Sophie Louise Parkhill

United Kingdom

I focus my artworks on wildlife and realism (although I dabble in portraits and seascapes on occasions too!) I mostly work in soft pastel on pastelmat. Recently I have begun to delve into the fascinating world[...]