Tag: oil painting

  • “Benares, India” ~ 48 x 36 Oil Painting by Peter Lopez

    “Benares, India” ~  48 x 36 Oil Painting by Peter Lopez

    “The Athens of India,” an oil painting by Peter Lopez  “Varanasi, also known as Benares or ‘the Athens of India,’ is an North Indian city on the banks of the Ganga in Uttar Pradesh, 200 miles south-east of the state capital, Lucknow. It is the holiest of the seven sacred cities (Sapta Puri) in Hinduism…

  • FDA II Students’ Oil Painting Gallery

    FDA II Students’ Oil Painting Gallery

    Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.~ Plutarch Courtesy of Mr. Peter Lopez’s After-School Painting Class This gallery contains oil paintings and water color portraits by the students of Mr. Peter Lopez’s after school painting class at Frederick Douglass Academy II. The painters include: John Jolivette, Joel Monroy, Kevin Chaney, Michael Montero, Elfrey…