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Twilight: 38 x 38" framed acrylic painting on canvas | Oil And Acrylic Painting in Paintings by Christine So

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Christine So

Twilight: 38 x 38" framed acrylic painting on canvas

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SOLD while ON EXHIBITION.
Part of my 2024 solo show.

This is an acrylic painting on canvas. Not a cyanotype on paper.

A 36 x 36 inch original acrylic painting. It is already framed a 2 inch deep solid white wood floater frame.
Framed dimensions are 38 x 38 x 2 inches.

The image of plum branches at dusk is from an evening hike I took during one of the first hot nights this summer. I wanted to capture the moment that the sky turns to a watercolor blue with all the branches turned to dark silhouettes.

The translucent layers in this acrylic painting give it a wonderful glow. The darker blue undercoat was painted thinly and allowed to show through as the shapes of the leaves. The paler blue twilight sky was scrubbed on in multiple sheer layers with the darkness peeking through to create a vibrancy like a quiet hum.

This is the fourth in my ‘Twilight Trees’ series of monochromatic botanical paintings in blue. I live in the woods on a hill completely surrounded by trees. No matter which way I go when I leave my house, I am always walking or driving under the branches of trees.

I like to take sunrise and evening walks in the summer. It’s a magical time just as the sky turns to a watery blue and all the branches turn to crisp silhouettes.

The translucent layers in this acrylic painting give it a wonderful glow. The darker blue undercoat was painted thinly and allowed to show through as the shapes of the leaves. The paler blue twilight sky was scrubbed on in multiple sheer layers with the darkness showing through to create a vibrancy like a quiet hum.

Item Twilight: 38 x 38" framed acrylic painting on canvas
Created by Christine So
As seen in Private Residence, Palo Alto, CA
Christine So
Meet the Creator
Wescover creator since 2023
Hand-Printed Botanical, Landscape and Abstract Cyanotypes

Christine So is a native San Franciscan painter, photographer and printmaker living across the bay in the hills of Oakland, California. Her paintings and cyanotypes have been commissioned by Mayo Clinic, Ritz Carlton, Kimpton Hotels, Starbucks, MD Anderson Hospital in Houston, UTMB Hospital in Galveston and purchased by private collectors in 15 countries, among them, Timothée Chalamet.

Her calm, monochromatic, nature-inspired works on paper are not printed with ink but are actually a form of photography from the 1800s. She works in the antique photographic process of cyanotypes, creating abstract and botanical monotypes in shades of blue as well as landscape photographs of the foggy woods where she lives. The plants used in her one-off prints are cut from her own garden or found in the woods nearby and printed on pure cotton watercolor paper. No two are alike. Only her landscape photographs developed using giant negatives and the same cyanotype chemicals are replicable, yet even those hand-printed photographs each differ slightly.

Most of the works listed here on Wescover.com are unframed works on paper, specifically cyanotypes. However, Christine So paints in acrylic on canvas and oil on panel as well, and there are about 15 paintings on canvas and panel listed. Most are not framed, but a rare few are. Please read the entire description.

NOTE: Most of the works on paper are sold unframed --although the display photos may depict them as framed on a virtual wall to give a sense of their eventual size once a mat and frame are added. Take note of the item's description before purchasing.