Flower in Water 
I am a new artist. I have used and practiced with acrylics, water colours and oil pastels. I really enjoyed working with oil pastels so I thought I would ...

Peonie Study 
Thank you Delmus for helping to make it possible for me to develop this style of painting. I found your e-book invaluable as a reference tool and cannot ...

"Very First Rose" A pink rose portrait. 
Hi,

This was my first attempt at the Flemish technique. I am mostly a self taught painter and I stumbled on the Flemish technique thanks to you and ...

Pansies 
Hi Delmus,

I am bound to write after I read and witnessed the changes you made to the persimmons. It means so much I had never actually believed before ...

"Blue bird on my window" 
In our cottage we see and hear a lot of birds,the blue bird is a favored of mine,he is so colorful and beautiful to paint.I done this painting in 2007 ...

"Morning walke" 
I love to paint flowers,in summer our garden is full of beautiful colors,and we love the sent in the morning.This painting is done in acrylic on canvas....

Jacob Wresling the Angel Peniele 
This is my first figurative based on Italian Renaissances Technique done more or less like the Flemish technique but with no Dead layer instead this one ...

Girl Wearing Hijab 
Hi I have done this painting of "Girl Wearing Hijab" on a "16 x 20" inches canvas, using oils as my medium.
I first sketched the subject on my canvas ...

Water Lillies 
I recently visited the 'Wild Fowl Trust' located in Pointe-A-Pierre, Trinidad and was blown away by the lush green plantlife, bird, and especially the ...

Divine justice 
Oil on canvas. 50 X 70 cm.

I´m brazilian from Curitiba, Paraná. Love this site! Thanks! "Andreessa Marques"


Editors note:
Hey Andreessa! thanks ...

Working flax 
Dear friends,
After my big problem with the tracing lines that keep appearing through the oil paint, I partially resolved it.
I sprayed a few times with ...

Portrait of a Barn Owl 
Portrait of a Barn owl is painted in Acrylics on a 2.5 x 3.5 Aceo 140 lb watercolor paper. I began this painting using my Burnt Umber, finding all of my ...

Charlie 
Charlie is a hunting dog - I was commissioned to paint him for his owner. I don't sketch - I just sit and paint. Oil on canvas. 12x16"

Paintings from Trinidad 
Oil and acrylic paintings from a Trinidad Artist

My first brush with Oil on Canvas. 
I am a freelance self made artist. I follow no techniques, so you may find the paintings to be raw. Yes I agree I must change my style to improve the finish....

Karakum 
This painting is of a beautiful horse named Karakum. He lived in Vienna, and I fell in love with him as soon as I saw his picture. His owner gave me ...

Pensive Beauty 
I used a photo provided by a fellow artist the idea was to create a portrait that tells a story of a young woman deep in thought

It took three months ...

The most vicious animal on earth El Toro 
Hi,just wanted to get some feed back on my work.I am 51 an Ex Flamenco dancer who always loved drawing and painting.I use to draw in school many years ...

Ang Paghaplos ng Liwanag sa Luha ng Langit ( The Touch of Light in the Tears of Heaven ) 
This painting won in a watercolor painting competition (Kulay sa Tubig Invitational Art Competition) here in the Philippines. Our country always experience ...

Jenny's painting 
I was commissioned to paint this. I absolutely hate it but the girl who paid for it loves it and I guess that's what counts. I didn't even want to show ...

Red Poppy 
I was inspired to paint this red poppy micro because of its intense colors of reds, oranges and yellows. It is painted in Acrylics on a 8 x 10 canvas with ...

"Roan Barbary". Canvas. Oil. 24"x30" 
Hello everyone! My name is Elena.I never received any formal art training, never even attending a class on artistic composition. I was anxious to learn ...

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 ...

The Lost Lamb 
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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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,...

My first time :D, Moth Orchid Painting 
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 ...

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!...

Christmas Warmth, Christmas Paintings 
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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

White Lilies 
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 ...

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 ...

When there's no more a sea in between!! 
The story of this boat on the shore? It is far to small to sail the ocean from South Africa to NZ But one day there will be no sea in between.......I worked ...

siblings 
Delmus,
let me thank you first for letting me have an opportunity to display what I had for several years now. The painting is 36x48 inches made in oil ...

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 ...

Pretty in Black, Cocker Spaniel 
The face on this Cocker Spaniel so gentle yet so regal was the inspiration behind my painting. I paint in miniature and this one was painted in Acrylics ...

The Guitar Player demonstration of the flemish method. 
The Guitar Player, flemish technique oil painting.

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 ...

Rural-related paintings 
Painting is very interesting, taking how many different colours it needs to get the effects I want. Here in South Africa, is a 'library' full of different ...

Fire Tree after Tim Gagnon  Not rated yet
A fast a furious painting to look at the quality's of a looser style. the original was done by Tim Gagnon but its so far away other then the perspectives ...

Oil painting titled "Cow"  Not rated yet
I am Scottish and love Highland cows, I have painted many and sold a few. Each one has it's own personality as I create them
I use acrylic then layer ...

Hummingbird Oil Painting Flemish Method 
The complete process, demonstration of a hummingbird in flight obtaining nectar from a beautiful blossom.

Mare and Colt  Not rated yet
I am self-taught artist and find your web site pages amazing as it's all new to me. In my painting I didn't prime, or layered my paintings, but will start ...

Flemish technique still life paintings  Not rated yet
Examples of some very nicely done fruit still life examples.

Girl On Sofa  Not rated yet
This painting was completed yesterday 25th of May 2011. It took me four days to put together. I first stretched my paper on a flat piece of ply wood, tacked ...

Coconut Climber  Not rated yet
This painting is 2" x 4" feet in size, Acrylics & Oils incorporated on Canvas. It took me almost a week to complete this painting.

Mixing the colors ...

Stories from my garden  Not rated yet
I love to garden, it's probably the only other hobbie I love as much as painting. This is the first of a series of paintings I'm doing - flowers from ...

Reflection of Memory  Not rated yet
I started painting 2 years ago August of 2009, after seeing several Bob Ross programs, I thought I can do that...(What was I thinking?)....Any way it was ...

Wild life oil paintings 
Oil paintings of wildlife. Great examples of oil painting techniques.

Two small oil paintings Flemish technique.  Not rated yet
Small oil paintings using the flemish oil painting techniques. Great examples

A walk in the wood  Not rated yet
its my first Imprimatura technique painting and also first time Stretching a canvas. think it got pretty nice, its a painting of our afghan dog and our ...

Pen and ink drawings  Not rated yet
To use different mediums in drawing/paintings, is an experience itself! In order to master this, I used calming music to calm me down, that's when my concentation ...

Ballerinas  Not rated yet
I love Leonardo Da Vinci's works, and used his book of 'DANCERS', to copy his drawings, and put my own color to it. My twin-daughters love art just as ...

Imaginative Paintings from India  Not rated yet
Artist Ashwini from Pune,maharastra,India painting from the imagination with thermocol, poster colours.

Still Life Cherries and Glass 
Some very beautifully painted cherries in glass on silk, linen background.

Imperial Poppies  Not rated yet
Hi,

I'm a very beginner oil painter. This is the first painting in my life and I want to tell me if it's all right. I saw an image and I draw a sketch ...

Hereford Bull  Not rated yet
I was inspired to paint this beautiful Hereford Bull because of the gentleness in his eyes, the colors that I saw in his coat and his expression. This ...

yellow flower  Not rated yet
Editors note:

The artist of this piece has submitted before, and the last example was also very good, but it isn't shown due to no content.

I'll ...

Alice and the Bandersnatch  Not rated yet
Drawn in Ink with acrylic color.... inspired by Alice in Wonderland 2009

Kuno (in English, it's "Supposedly")  Not rated yet
I just painted and painted the canvas and then it took shape into a quilt-like painting. I was fond of quilt magazines at the time and there was a movement ...

Kilimanjaro Sunrise  Not rated yet
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 ...

"Lea" Oil Painting Portrait  Not rated yet
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,   Not rated yet
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  Not rated yet
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  Not rated yet
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  Not rated yet
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 ...

Grandma & Zuri  Not rated yet
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....

Abstract Portrait Paintings 
abstract portrait paintings by Sawsan (UAE)

Cottage Painting  Not rated yet
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!  Not rated yet
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 ...

"Oil Painting Tips" From My Instructor Of Old  Not rated yet
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  Not rated yet
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"...

"Kruimeltje en Spike"  Not rated yet
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  Not rated yet
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 ...