Tree of life Oil on wooden plate Year: 2000 Size: 50x61 Owned by: For sale to the first reasonable offer. Frame worth 1500 NOK ($230.00). This was my first "real painting" besides a few attempts in my early youth. The only reason why I include this, is so you can see how I've involved since I first picked up a brush in 2000...At first I had no idea how to mix paints or what to use as solvants, and painting straight from the tube I applied the colour mostly with a palette knife. So in art-terms, the surfase of this is 'impasto' (thick application of paint).