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Rosa Betta by Catherine Barolo

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ARTIST NOTES: Sometimes you may see these fish referred to as Siamese fighting fish or Labyrinth fish but their scientific name is Betta splendens. A freshwater fish. I have wanted to paint a fish for a long time and I think I picked the hardest one to be my first! I chose the betta fish because of the movement and the fact I have never painted anything like this before. The background is not completely black I wanted it to have some movement and you can see that especially in person. The colours of deep reds to the bright orange reds were a challenge to paint to say the least! but I persevered and I got there and I am so happy with the result, and in the end it took a full 3 weeks to paint.

DIMENSIONS (Height - 91.40 cm X Width - 60.90 cm )
MEDIUM ON BASE Acrylic on Stretched Canvas
GENRE Contemporary
REGISTERED NRN # 000-39715-0176-01
COPYRIGHT © Catherine Barolo
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ARTIST BIO

     

     Catherine Barolo is a self taught artist living in Melbourne, Australia.  

Catherine has been drawing ever since she was little.  A quiet child who would draw for hours and hours escaping life in the 1970's suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia.

     Her paintings and stories were full of fairies, goblins and all types of animals, flowers and mythical creatures she would make up from her fantasy world she loved and imagined until....life happened!

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      Fast forward to 2022 and Catherine is happily married with 4 almost grown children and her dog Coco.  It has only been in the last two years Catherine has found time to concentrate on her art.  Catherine is a self taught artist and has exhibited her work in Melbourne and continues to sell her original paintings, prints and commissioned art through her website.  Catherine either works off her own photos or asks photographers permission to use their photos as reference.  Catherine loves to paint in acrylic and now teaching herself to paint digitally.  Each painting is carefully thought and planned out, subject, colour and composition to tell its unique story all in as much detail as she can.

                                                                                                                                              This is just the beginning...