When you pick up a palette knife you're either one out of a thousand artist who knows what to do with it or one out of the other nine hundred and ninety nine.  The palette knife is truly the very peak of realism at its best. 

Once again, "Shomal" that gorgeous heaven which surrounds the Caspian at the Iranian border comes through the artistic strokes of the palette knife.  The air is lush, the people are simple and the scenery green and in this case very much golden.

To live my life there is simply a dream come true.

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