"Morning Mint" is an original oil painting of an Emerald gemstone on a linen canvas, 25.5 x 20.5 cm.
It belongs to Tetiana Samoilenko's Sunlit Spectrum, a series that follows the rainbow through precious stones from first light to dusk.
Each work is painted in a single layer, facet by facet, like a stained-glass window assembled from bright, precisely bordered segments. Where larger gemstone portraits speak with the weight of authority, this series is deliberately lighter: sunlit, joyful, and summer-bright.