Materials
Although the oil painting techniques I’m using can be classified as classic or traditional, I combine these with modern ease and with a notion of the negative environmental impact of oil paint by using more natural products.
I use several strategies to reduce the environmental impact by:
- Using all oil paint and never throwing away leftovers
- I prefer to use natural products based on lavender oil instead of turpentine
- I take care of my brushes without cleaning them, thus saving water
- I use high quality oil paint based on cold pressed linseed oil
I prefer working with local products.
Buying an Artwork
Prices of Merel MAY’s artwork are based on equality. What really counts in life is time. Not just time, but time with full attention. Your time is as valuable as mine. The price of an artwork depends on your wadge per hour. I hold a timesheet of hours spent on the artwork and materials used. If you are interested in buying an artwork you’ll get an inside into the hours I worked. Hopefully by having an in-depth discussion with your family and friends, you can decide the actual price that you would like to offer. I would like to ask you to describe this decision making process how you came to this pricing. By doing so, your writings will anomalously contribute to a future artwork, together with the input of other buyers. Therefore there are no prices shown on this website.
Prices shown in galleries are fix prices.
Price depending, between 5- 25% will be transferred to charity dedicated to nature conservation and/or helping people in harmful situations, to become an actual Peace of Art. If you have a preference for a particular charity, I would love to hear that.
Most artworks are available as prints as well. Merel MAY is available for working on commissions (worldwide). If you have an idea about a certain artwork that you envision, please fill in the contact form.
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