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Beginner, semi-pro, or full time artist, show us your stuff! It doesn't have to be oils, or using this technique, but it does need to be a painting/drawing. Do you have a great story to go with it? Your struggles, your victories? Come on and share it!
Twin Falls
This painting was inspired by a Thomas Moran painting done back in the 1800's. I made major changes in the painting adding a second falls, more water ...
Holmes Creek Floridian boat landing
RAISED IN THE COUNTRYSIDE IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA, I HAVE FISHED IN THE WATERS OF THE CREEKS AND LAKES IN THIS AREA AND THEY ARE JUST BEAUTIFUL. I CAN RECALL ...
Quiet Splendor
This painting was also done while I was in Oklahoma, in 1984 my husband passed away from Cancer, I stayed in Oklahoma until 1989 when My daughter finished ...
My Girls
This painting was done in 1968....It was my first try at painting, had no training, read any books at that time. I just took the pictures of the girls ...
Mule Deer Fawn, Wildlife Oil Painting
Here is my first attempt at an animal - it was so much fun!! Now, I'm hooked on trying all kinds of animals! This is oil on 11x14 canvas board. Primed ...
Large Gardenia, Floral Oil Painting
My daughter took a photo of a gardenia flower on our back porch while I was painting a commission piece for someone else. When I delivered the painting ...
Moonlight in the bay
Wanted to try painting on a black canvas - so I painted a 12x12 canvas board with all black oil and let it dry. Then I covered it with Linseed oil and ...
Hard Life, an abstract portrait painting
This painting took me a few months to feel satisfied with it and feel that I had enough.
I know it may not have been produced in a professional way like ...
Cat Art, Apollo-handsome oriental cat.
I created this portrait of Apollo my friends white oriental cat, using Prisma Coloured Pencils, on watercolour paper.
I just Copied from Photograph,...
Nature, Acrylic Landscape Painting
Not much work...but a lot of joy...
Editors Note:
What a wonderful piece. The pink hues in the sky and mountains. The reds in the foreground tree ...
Vine, (Grape Art)
It was repainted over and over...could not find the right vine color...used all material that usually you need for oil painting.
Editors Note:
Olga!...
Going to explore. . . Seascape Art
Used oils on this one - 11x14" Canvas Board. Took about 4 hours total. Being in Arizona - all paint dries quickly so you have to work fast here! :)
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Still Life Art, Untitled Still Life
I tried another "Method" and built a box, cut a hole in the top to put a drop light over. I then found the objects in my house. I had sea shells and ...
Glorious Sunrise Sunset Picture
I did this off a photo and it turned out to look exactly like the photo! I'm a beginner again after not touching a brush for 20 years! No formal training ...
Tiffany Portrait Painting
Tiffany was a painting that took about two weeks. I had a fun time with this painting, and why you ask! Well I painted her after I painted Vermeer's ...
Sun Flower
This is a oil painting done in the Flemish style on a 12 x 16 inches canvas panel. This is my second painting in Flemish and I love this technique!
Thank ...
Tennis Players - Essence of the Man: Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr.
How do I start? This is a painting I did approximately 17 yrs. ago. I share it because it had a devastating effect on me at that time.
I was in ...
Poinsettia flower, Poinsettia art
Tis the season, so enjoy. These things are so hard to get to bloom or turn red again. I can grow them throughout the summer, they get nice and big. But ...
A Beginners Art Work Starts by the Paint By Numbers Method
Okay, I admit it right up front. I'm not an artist. Not even remotely. For me, a beginners art work (at least all of my attempts) starts by the paint ...
Girl with a pearl earring.
Here's a painting, one of my favorite, that has inspired both films and books about it's creation and it's subject.
Can you name the films?
Can you ...
First attempt using flemish technique!
I do have a quick question about one thing: when applying the first color layer, how do you decide how much medium to use? Obviously the canvas has linseed ...
Old Cabin, primitive decor, folk art primitives
Dear Mr. Phelps, I just finished your ebook. I enjoyed it but I would rather have a dvd to show me how to paint by watching you in action. I am new to ...
Oil and water don't mix...
...or so they say.
A while back I decided to ignore this theory and to mix oil paint with acrylic (water based) on my palette.
It was a bit gooey ...
A Rose Drawing
I'm no good at any sort of art, sadly. But in any case, I decided, after reading alot on this informative website, that i would find a picture and colour ...
The Guitar Player demonstration of the flemish method.
The Guitar Player, flemish technique oil painting.
Still Life in Flemish technique
Oil painting done early this year.
50 x 60 cm
Hope you like it! :)
Editor's note:
Hi Liliana,
You bet! Wow! Absolutely gorgeous! The glass ...
Old Massie, Blue Ridge Landscape oil painting.
Flemish technique on masonite paneling. Original was 12"x36". This painting come with a nice story. Raising a large family, one of my greatest pleasures ...
Kilimanjaro Sunrise
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This is my very first attempt at painting.
I used acrylic on canvas and it took me about ten hours.
It is approximately 800mm X 350mm.
It is of a shot ...
Lady In Red
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this has been a work of joy and trial and err....
the original photo I took at Yachats, it was a cold windy day and the waves had a lot ove spray blowing ...
"Lea" Oil Painting Portrait
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This is the first portrait I have ever painted. My daughter, Lea. It's 9x12" canvas - oil. I've never had so much fun painting before. I hope you like ...
Sculpter class,
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I wanted to learn sculpture so took a class in collage in 1977, completed this green man , then my mother passed away and I moved, everything was different ...
Painting Examples early 80's
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These paintings were done in the early 80's when I was still in Oklahoma...
Bugs and daisy were painted on sweat shirts, that was very popular back then,...
The Year in retrospect, oil paintings by Peggy
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My favorite stump on Empire lake, it has quite a few old stumps here and there, this one I really liked.....never dreaming it would be so hard to paint....
Firemen Tribute paintings
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Night burn was a practice burn where the house was condemned and scheduled to be burned, My youngest daughter is a fireman and so I was aware of the ...
The Lost Lamb
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My grand mother has a print of this painting , and when I stayed at her house I loved looking at it, Her youngest son had a little lamb and a collie dog ...
Grandma & Zuri
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I have been painting as a hobby for many years (I am 60). I have sold a few along the way and have had some portrait commissions the last couple of years....
Hardlife 2
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This paint done by Oil colors on canvas 60x40
The technique i used on this paint was mix the colors with a lot of medium, to become more liquid and moved ...
Cottage Painting
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Hi Friends,
Well I am new at this work, this is my first oil painting. I first saw this picture on wall post then I thought to paint it out with oil colours,...
Tiger Art, and a Famous Painting example!
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Hi Delmus
This painting has been done now for about 7 years and i used a book cover as reference material,as I am a great admirer of Caravaggio the strong ...
My first time :D, Moth Orchid Painting
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My first attempt at oil painting, after finding this site I was ecstatic, finally somebody was generous enough to share their knowledge on how to indulge ...
Christmas Warmth, Christmas Paintings
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Many of those reading these pages are oil painters who may have studied many paintings over a time. I have an old painting that I cannot identify.
This ...
Acrylic Landscape, Silence in the Snow
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I have always wanted to do oil painting but never had the nerve to do it. I became ill after doing 3 treks in Brazil, Nepal , and South Africa for charity,...
Morning Mist, an acrylic landscape painting
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oil painting wet in wet technique 60/50cm on a stretched canvas used a part of it with black gesso
Editor Note:
I love the way the sun is creeping ...
A Landscape Painting, "Illusion of Distance"
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My first painting done when I was graduating student during my high school days, its my high school project. I copied this scene to a picture in my grand ...
Oil Painting Techniques wet-in-wet
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Hello! I would like to thank you for great tips in oil painting and not being selfish, like most painters.
This painting was created in a 4 hour ...
"Oil Painting Tips" From My Instructor Of Old
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One of my favorite "Oil Painting Tips" was from my first instructor. He helped my brother and I paint quite a few pictures during the summer that Mom and ...
City Scapes, painting red balloons
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A tribute to a dear Aunt. Elements within the work were significant to her. The 42nd street, blue shoes, red balloons, and the restaurant name, "Maxines"...
White Lilies
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Hello,
I'm from Portugal and I love oil painting, always did :-)
I paint all my motives with flemish technic.
I would love to upload photos of the 2 ...
"Kruimeltje en Spike"
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I did this as a surprise b-day present for a colleagues wife. She LOVES her animals. He brought to an Antwerp art fair where I was exhibiting (this was ...
decorative interior painting
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Decorative painting on furniture! Wow, this is so fun to do! What a great way to save money too, buying old beat up furniture, taking it home, cleaning ...
