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Original artwork description
While creating this bison portrait, I aimed to express a quiet yet unshakable strength. Rather than emphasizing movement or scenery, I chose a frontal composition, allowing the viewer to confront the animal’s gaze directly and feel its presence, resilience, and dignity in stillness.
I used layered brushstrokes—scraping, sweeping, and stippling—to build the dense texture of the fur. Earth-toned colors dominate the palette, enriched with subtle warm and cool contrasts to shape form through light and shadow. The visible marks and splatters are intentional, preserving the raw energy of the painting process and echoing the primal power of the subject itself.
Materials used:
Acrylic
Details:
- Acrylic painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 60.96 x 76.2 x 2.03cm (unframed) / 60.96 x 76.2cm (actual image size)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the front
- Style: Impressionistic
- Subject: Animals and birds
Tags:
#nature#impressionism#buffalo#animal portrait#textured painting#contemporary realism#strength#animalportrait#primalbeauty#primal power#western imagery
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Original artwork description
While creating this bison portrait, I aimed to express a quiet yet unshakable strength. Rather than emphasizing movement or scenery, I chose a frontal composition, allowing the viewer to confront the animal’s gaze directly and feel its presence, resilience, and dignity in stillness.
I used layered brushstrokes—scraping, sweeping, and stippling—to build the dense texture of the fur. Earth-toned colors dominate the palette, enriched with subtle warm and cool contrasts to shape form through light and shadow. The visible marks and splatters are intentional, preserving the raw energy of the painting process and echoing the primal power of the subject itself.
Materials used:
Acrylic
Details:
- Acrylic painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 60.96 x 76.2 x 2.03cm (unframed) / 60.96 x 76.2cm (actual image size)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the front
- Style: Impressionistic
- Subject: Animals and birds
Tags:
#nature#impressionism#buffalo#animal portrait#textured painting#contemporary realism#strength#animalportrait#primalbeauty#primal power#western imagery
Paul Cheng
United States
About
Paul ChengOil Painters of America (OPA) Signature Member
Paul Cheng was born and grew up in Guangzhou China and
studied at Guangzhou Fine Art College China, one of the most... Read more