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watercolour studies I - VIII

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 As things go, studies and experiments are part of the process. So here we are, 8 specific watercolour studies into this never-ending love affair with watercolour and paper. Only this time I got to play with cold wax as well - what a heavenly tactile medium! These are all slightly smaller than A4, mounted on press board, sealed with cold wax, buffed and ready to hang. Would love to know what you think... Untitled I by Erika Husselmann - watercolour on Fabriano, cold wax  SOLD      Untitled II by Erika Husselmann - watercolour/collage on Fabriano, cold wax  SOLD Untitled III by Erika Husselmann - watercolour/collage on Fabriano, cold wax  $110 Untitled IV by Erika Husselmann - watercolour/cold wax on Fabriano  $110 Untitled V by Erika Husselmann - watercolour/cold wax on Fabriano  SOLD Untitled VI by Erika Husselmann - watercolour/cold wax on Fabriano  SOLD Untitled VII by Erika Husselmann - watercolour/cold wax on Fabriano  SOLD Unt...

Aviana

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  Aviana and Friends  - 102x76x38cm, acrylic & oils by erika husselmann Meet 'Aviana' - the first finished one for 2025. I am happy with this, it consists of layers and layers of paint, done on a recycled linen canvas, stretched and ready to hang. The painting is framed with a black floating frame and ready to hang. Five is the number of the birds in this painting, and also an interesting number indicated by a V in Roman numerals, after I II III IIII which all made sense.  Google gives me this: 5 is the first congruent number, as well as the length of the hypotenuse of the smallest integer-sided right triangle, making part of the smallest Pythagorean triple (3, 4, 5). Five is the first prime, and the first good prime. And that's not all... 5 is also a Fermat prime, a Mersenne prime exponent, as well as a Fibonacci number. I didn't get all of that, did you? I do love Fibonacci though.. and then I found this: "The earliest counting systems in the world are though...