Now here's a thought. Your oil painting tips, your photo's and your stories, right here on the web. You put the work into it, why not brag a bit and show it off!
All artist's have a need to create. But not all artist's have a place to show off their work. Well, here's your chance. Consider here to post your work, tell us about it's creation and if there is a special story behind the subject matter! Come on and join the group!
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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!
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 ...
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 ...
The Guitar Player demonstration of the flemish method.
The Guitar Player, flemish technique oil painting.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Glorious Sunrise Sunset Picture
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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
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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
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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 ...
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 ...
A Rose Drawing
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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 ...
"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 ...
Poinsettia flower, Poinsettia art
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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 ...
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 ...
