Oil painting on wood "Russian countryside"

Beautiful oil painting on wood "Russian countryside" Signed by the Artist. Today, most paintings are depicted on canvases. However, it was not always this way. In ancient Egypt, people painted on wood. Advantages of painting on wood: it is solid and resistant. Much more than a canvas; it is perfectly smooth, without any grain; it allows you to work with many textures and materials whose weight will not cause the support to sag; the result is different from the canvas and the final result offers a unique result.