"A Coat of Many Colors" Original Painting

This painting is available through Oliver Cole Gallery in Miami, FL.

Contact: info@olivercolegallery.com

Original painting dimensions: 48in x 60in

Dimensions with frame: 60in x 72in

Acrylic & 24k gold leaf on wood panel, with a bespoke Roma gold frame

Signed, includes certificate of authenticity

Please allow 3-4 weeks for shipping, handling, etc.

About

This painting is extremely meaningful to me. I was inspired by the Bible story of Joseph and the coat of many colors. I have often imagined the coat as a constantly moving, shimmering garment intertwined with gold strings. If you know the story, the coat caused Joseph’s brothers to get so upset with him that they tore his coat and sold him into slavery in Egypt, where he would end up becoming the Vizier (second in command to the Pharaoh). 

I wanted this painting to feel like a portal into a dream, radiating with as many colors as I could fit into a moiré of this size. To do that, I did three layers of lines instead of 2. If you look closely, you can see 2 moiré patterns and how they intersect. The first one goes from the bottom left up towards the top right of the piece, and the second moiré goes from the top right, to the middle left, and down to the bottom right forming a curve.

After I applied the gold leaf (which cost around $1500), I realized that the wood panel was COVERED in little air bubbles under the top layer of wood. I spent the next THREE days slicing each bubble with an exacto knife, carefully filling the bubble with wood glue, then pressing the bubble with wax paper for 1-2 minutes. I repeated this process around 300 times. The painting was scattered with scars from the small bubble repairs I made. The adhesive that I used repelled all of the varnish and paint that I tried applying to it. When I was removing the tape from the second layer of lines, it peeled up a lot of the varnish from the first layer, and I thought the painting was ruined. I was able to repair this by applying several layers of varnish and popping each air bubbles under with an exacto knife again. I was terrified up until the very last layer of tape was pulled from the third layer of lines that the painting would self destruct because of the adhesive on the base layer. I can’t begin to tell you how relieved I felt when it all worked out.