Occhi panel, picture hand-painted on wood
Eyes

The subject of ceramics, brought to the wall.

Eye Panel

    €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.

    The painting

    Painting on a wooden panel, hand-painted.

    Lime-based acrylic paints, marmorino, and ceramic: the essence of their lands, brought to the wall.

    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-based acrylic, marmorino, and ceramic
    Subject
    Eyes

    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.
    Occhi panel, close-up of the painting
    Occhi panel, overall view
    Occhi panel, close-up of the marmorino
    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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