Fiori di Loto panel, picture hand-painted on wood
Lotus flowers

The lotus flowers, fifty-six by seventy-six.

Lotus Flower Panel

  • white background
  • 56 × 76 cm
  • portrait

€440,00

This painting exists only once.

What you see in the photo is what arrives: painted freehand, it is a copy of nothing and there is no second one. If you want one for your own wall, in your own size, they paint it on commission.

Hand-painted by Marcella e Maria Teresa Lorenzi, in Empoli.

How big it really is

A meter by a meter means nothing on a screen. The outline below is drawn at the panel's real size, and the figure beside it is 175 cm tall.

56 cm 76 cm

verticale format. On the wall it takes up 56 × 76 cm: the clear wall has to be at least that much.

The painting

Fifty-six by seventy-six: the medium vertical format, with lotus flowers on a light background.

Hand-painted picture on wood panel, acrylic paints with lime and marmorino plaster.

How it's painted

The wood, the lime, the marmorino, the brush. Four stages, and not one of the four can be done over.

  1. The panelBefore the color there is the wood, and it has to be prepared: smooth, dry, sealed. A support that drinks badly shows for ever, and there is no correcting it afterwards.
  2. The limeThe colors are lime-based acrylics — the same material as old walls. They don't sit on top of the wood: they bind to it, and they stay matt.
  3. The marmorinoThe marmorino gives the thickness. It is what makes the painting change from one hour of the day to the next, because the light doesn't pass through it: it slides across it.
  4. The brushThe subject is painted freehand, without a template and without printing. It is the stage that leaves this panel without a twin anywhere.
Support
Wood panel
Technique
Lime- and marmorino-based acrylic
Dimensions
56 × 76 cm
Background
White
Subject
Lotus flowers

How to look after it

It is lime paint on wood. It lasts decades, but there are two things it fears.

  • Not in direct sunlight: lime and acrylics fade, and they do it without coming back.
  • Dust it with a dry, soft cloth. No water, no detergents, no damp cloth.
  • The support is wood: it fears damp. In a room that steams up, the wall furthest from the source.

On request

Want it for your own wall?

A hand-painted picture is made to the size of the wall it has to fill — which is why a commission, here, is not a fallback: it is the normal way to buy one. The subject, the ground, the format. [mani] paint to order. Tuscany Market Hub follows the request: write to us with the size and where it will hang, we will put it into production and come back to you with times and price.

Ask for a made-to-order painting

The request goes to Tuscany Market Hub, who pass it on to Il Papavero.
Fiori di Loto panel, close-up of the flowers
Fiori di Loto panel, overall view
The workshop

Marcella e Maria Teresa Lorenzi

Two sisters, a kiln and raw clay. The passion started when they were children and took the serious road at the art school in Firenze; then life closed down a business and brought them back here, to ceramics, with the VAT number reopened and their hands in the clay.

They make two things that do not resemble each other: natural decorations and table centerpieces. All painted by hand, piece by piece, and fired slowly.

The panels are where the trade leaves the table and goes onto the wall: the same lime, the same marmorino, the same ceramic dust as the tableware — on a large flat surface, where nothing can be hidden.

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Lime · marmorino · ceramic dust · painted freehand on a wood panel

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