How Does Jose Vivas-Astara Create A Landscape Painting?

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José Vivas- Astara created an oil on canvas painting Catalan Scene in 1971 using oil paints. The painting is a landscape painting. The art piece shows the missions with a couple of houses surrounding it. All the houses are connected to each other but they are all different heights. The houses have red tiled roofs and white stucco walls. Close to the houses there is a body of water with trees and grass surrounding it. In the painting you can tell it’s a sunny day by how the painting depicts warm colors.
The texture of this painting is actual because when looking close at the painting you can see the roughness and not the smooth strokes that you usually get from a paint brush. The painting is painted by a knife palette which you can tell because

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