Keeping Soft (2025) Original Mixed-media Painting by Victor Selin

Keeping Soft is a 16 by 20 inch gold leaf artwork. The black ground removes the noise of the room, leaving only the essential gesture: attention given with love.

A figure leans over a small object, surrounded by soft toy forms and delicate lines of gold. Something fragile is being repaired, held, and prepared for a child. The gold leaf gives the scene a gentle glow, turning a private domestic moment into ceremony.

This piece is about the small acts that keep childhood soft: mending, holding, waiting, watching, and making a safe world out of ordinary materials. Every mark is an act of care.

A one of a kind original. 16 by 20 inches. Gold leaf on black ground.

Second Prize, Childhood Exhibition, Round Rock, Texas.

For the collector who remembers that tenderness is a kind of work.

Materials used:

Gold leaf, premium black paper

Details:

• Mixed-media painting on Paper
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 45.72 x 55.88 x 5.08cm (framed)
• Framed and ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Illustrative
• Subject: People and portraits