Title: Boat Builders
Artist: Kheder
Medium: Oil on canvas
Technique: Impasto
Features:
✔ Original oil painting (not a print)
✔ Premium pigments for lasting vibrancy
✔ Professional-grade canvas for durability
✔ Expressive, textured brushwork for a rich, dynamic feel
✔ One-of-a-kind artwork with a unique Impasto touch
In Boat Builders, artist Kheder captures a timeless scene of labor and creation, depicting a group of boat workers immersed in the physical act of constructing a vessel. Rendered with the expressive density of the impasto technique, the surface of the painting is alive with texture—thick swaths of oil paint mimic the grain of wood, the tautness of muscle, and the coarse grit of sand beneath bare feet.
Conceptually rooted in primitivism, the work transcends mere documentation. Kheder strips away modernity, distilling the image to its elemental essence—man, nature, and tool. The figures, simplified yet powerful, evoke archetypes of human resilience and cooperation. Their faces are devoid of individual identity, instead representing a universal laboring spirit.
The palette is earthy and raw, dominated by ochres, deep umbers, and muted blues, echoing both the materials of the craft and the natural environment surrounding them.
The painting feels ancient yet immediate. It speaks to a rhythm of life governed not by machines or schedules but by the tides and the weight of human hands. Through its tactile surface and conceptual grounding, Boat Builders becomes not just a depiction of work—but a meditation on origin, endurance, and the primal bond between creation and survival.
 
Type of canvas: linen fabric, Linen comes first in terms of strength and not absorbing refined paint oils.

Sable brushes; While many other natural and synthetic hairs are used for brushes, nothing has quite matched the quality of sable. A brush head made from Kolinsky sable, a Siberian weasel whose hair costs three times the price of gold by weight, is the best for control and pinpoint accuracy.
For solvents, the artist used turpentine, which increases the fluidity of oil paints but makes the binder oil dry faster, also used clove oil as a solvent to delay the dryness of the binder, as it delays the oxidation process.

As a binder, the artist used Linseed oil, which dries to form a strong flexible film, and also Safflower oil(which takes more time to dry).
Artists mixed high-quality pigments with both Binder(linseed oil) and Solvent(turpentine) to create the desired consistency and finish.
Impasto technique, is the technique used by the artist to create this painting, where paint is laid on canvas thickly, usually thick enough that the brush or painting-knife strokes are visible.