Toroazul Painting and Fine Arts

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Street of Las Mercedes 7.5 '  x  4  '   painted screen, oil on wood 2005 Price  $ 7,000

Ceiling finish and border original color design in egg tempera The Ocean Club Key Biscayne, Florida

The use of EGG TEMPERA, a very old painting technique using the egg yolk as medium, enhanced the FAUX FINISH of this recessed ceiling . I also designed the  "Greek Isles" border festoon around the ceiling. This design   was not copied using a  stencil but rather entirely  hand-painted.  The luminous, satin-like quality of the blue egg tempera far outshines anything like this in acrylic or lime-based paint.

Two DETAIL photos of the ceiling egg tempera on primed drywall The Ocean Club Key Biscayne, Florida 2002

EGG TEMPERA was also used to create the illusion of a sky at dawn inside a similarly recessed but oval ceiling area in the foyer of the same Ocean Club condominium in Key Biscayne, Florida. Using the stylized flower pattern in the marble floor, I painted what looks like an ornamental glass border around the opening to the morning sky.

DETAIL photos of the oval ceiling showing the faux finish in egg tempera under different lighting. The Ocean Club Key Biscayne, Florida 2002

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