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Swirling impasto painting of a golden moon over a midnight blue sea filled with stars

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Moon Over the Swell

$561.25HandPainted
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Painting Size: 12 x 24 in (30.48 x 60.96 cm), oil on canvas

Frame: No Frame (Rolled in a Tube)

All framing includes free canvas stretching, mounting & wall hooks. Your framed oil painting will arrive at your door ready to hang on your wall.

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  • Hand-painted in real oil on canvas — never a print
  • Worldwide shipping, rolled and protected
  • Photo of the finished work sent to you before it ships

How you pay: card or PayPal in US dollars, with a proper invoice from Shenzhen Adam Art Co., Ltd. Nothing is charged before you approve the mock-up or the photograph of the finished canvas. Payment is settled in full against one invoice — there is no checkout on this page because every piece is painted to order — the enquiry you send is the order.

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Choose a room, drag the painting into place, and set your wall width — the canvas is shown at its true size for the dimension you select above.

A hand-painted oil painting previewed above the fireplace of a classic Parisian salon
Swirling impasto painting of a golden moon over a midnight blue sea filled with stars

About Moon Over the Swell

A full golden moon burns above a night sea, and the sea answers with a wave that curls like a claw. The sky is deep cobalt scattered with impasto stars; the swell below is sculpted ridge by ridge in blue, navy and gold. It is the ocean at its most theatrical — a seascape oil painting that behaves like a storm.

The paint is piled on, not applied. The moon is a thick disc of swirling yellow and cream, raised enough to catch light on its ridges; the stars are single white dabs flung across the dark; and the great breaking wave dominates the left half, its crest collapsing in clotted strokes of foam and gold while a second wave rolls beneath it. Between them, dark mountain shapes and a curved backwash fill the distance, all in blues that shift from navy to glinting teal.

This is a Van Gogh style painting in spirit — impasto, movement, night colour — but its own composition, and a one-of-a-kind original. The vertical format and deep blues make it a dramatic statement piece above a sofa or bed; it pairs beautifully with brass lamps, dark wood and cool grey walls, and carries a dim room on its golden moon alone.

Size, wall and framing

Every canvas ships rolled in a rigid tube, gallery-wrapped and ready to hang, or in a floater frame from the swatches above. Change the size here and the room preview above updates to match.

Size and price

Canvas sizes before framing — a floater frame adds about an inch per side. Every size is painted to order at the price shown; there is no quote to wait for.

Canvas sizePriceSuits a wall of about
12 x 24 in (30.48 x 60.96 cm)$561.2520–25 in
16 x 32 in (40.64 x 81.28 cm)$776.7725–35 in
20 x 40 in (50.8 x 101.6 cm)$996.7830–45 in
24 x 48 in (60.96 x 121.92 cm)$1,225.7735–55 in
30 x 60 in (76.2 x 152.4 cm)$1,571.5045–65 in
36 x 72 in (91.44 x 182.88 cm)$1,930.7055–80 in

What arrives

  • The original canvas — one of one, never a print or an edition
  • A photo of the finished painting emailed to you before it ships
  • Numbered Certificate of Authenticity naming the artist
  • Hanging hardware on framed and gallery-wrapped pieces

Listed details: Original oil on canvas · one of one.

Caring for the painting

The surface has heavy impasto — dust with a soft dry brush, never rub, and keep it well away from direct sun and humid rooms. The thick oil build is fully cured and will hold its relief for decades under normal indoor conditions.

Before you order

We reply with a fixed price, a delivery date and an honest opinion — usually within a day. For commissions you approve the composition sketch before painting begins; for originals you receive a photo of the finished canvas before it ships.

Questions? Use the buttons above — the form arrives with this piece's details filled in.

How this reaches your wall

1

Enquire

Pick a size and frame above, then send the enquiry — you get a fixed price and a delivery date within a day.

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Approve

You see a photo of the finished canvas before anything ships, so there are no surprises.

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Paint & review

Each piece is painted in real oil on canvas and checked in the studio before packing.

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Packed & shipped

Rolled in a rigid insured tube or crated, with the numbered COA and tracking.

Questions

Questions buyers ask about this piece

Neither. The curling wave nods to Hokusai and the impasto to Van Gogh, but the composition — this moon, this sea — is original. It is a one-of-a-kind oil painting, painted by hand, with no editions made from it.
The blues are slightly deeper in person and the moon's texture shows real relief under side lighting. The photo we email before shipping shows the true canvas, so you approve exactly what arrives.
Yes — dark paintings recede, which visually deepens a small room. Give it one warm light source nearby and the gold moon and wave-crest will carry the whole wall.

Yes. The sizes on this page are the standard ladder, but any proportional size can be made — send the wall dimensions and we will confirm the exact canvas and price the same day. There is no surcharge for a non-standard size, only the normal price step.

By card or PayPal in US dollars, against a proper invoice from Shenzhen Adam Art Co., Ltd. Nothing is charged before you approve the mock-up (for a commission) or the photograph of the finished canvas (for a reproduction). Payment is settled in full against one invoice — there is no checkout button because the painting does not exist yet — your enquiry is the order, and the invoice comes before any payment.

A print reproduces the image; it cannot reproduce the surface. Brush ridges, the slight variation of each stroke and the way oil catches raking light are what make a painting read as a painting across a room — and they are exactly what a flat print loses. Every piece here is painted by hand on canvas, signed, varnished, and shipped with a numbered Certificate of Authenticity.

Yes — that is the point of commissioning rather than ordering stock. You receive two progress photographs while it is being painted, then a photograph of the finished canvas with one free round of adjustments. Nothing is dispatched until you are happy with what you have seen.

Painting takes three to five weeks, then three to five business days in transit, tracked and insured. Rush delivery (three weeks, painting included) is available for $90. The price on this page is $561.25 for the smallest size — larger sizes and extra subjects step up on the published ladder, so there is no quote to wait for.

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