Martine Johanna acrylic paintings series were "Life is but a Dream" and "Dark Matter" which was held in Massey Klien Gallery, US and KochXBos Gallery, Amsterdam. Last year was full of Decay, dread and sad emotions, this years she hopes to have new beginnings and look at life with a fresh start. One of her first...
Stemming from a desire to challenge the conventions of traditional portraiture, Drury has recently created this body of six oil paintings. He carefully selected affluent members of society to sit for him, and rather than acquiescing to expectations of flattery, he exploits the power of oil paint to describe their corporeal...
Funny Oil Paintings : These are not photo manipulations, they are infact realistic oil paintings by Matthew Grabelsky. This is an oilpainting series called "Passengers" created for Dorothy circus gallery based in London. All his characters in this series "Passengers" are perfectly enjoying their day, like reading...
Leonid Afremov (born 1955) is a Belarusian painter. His paintings are often vividly-coloured landscapes, cityscapes and figures, and are typically painted using a palette knife and oil paint. His work has been greatly influenced by contemporary cityscape painter and modern impressionist Michael Flohr. Afremov graduated from Vitebsk...
Surreal Art : Lohmuller Gyuri: I discovered my own painting and my own technique, I may say, because I have never seen someone painting for many years after I began to paint. Some of my teachers helped me through the way, I can mention the well-known painter Komisarsky who was of great help, in Resita during my 3 years studies at...
These are some vibrant painting artworks by artist Angel Ganev. The Bulgarian artist steals our heart by his color popping painting artworks. His uniqueness lies in the extra touch of glow effects which makes his paintings stand out from the rest. For a moment we were left to wonder if it was night life photography or paintings. The...
Paintings & Drawings by Paul Alexander Thornton – Artist and Pattern Designer Paul Alexander Thornton is an amazing artist and a musician from UK. He creates art and also captures the motion on his video. He believes art starts from the very first dot to the last shade of colours. When at school is favourite pass time was...
Koos Ten Kate oil paintings are literally bizarre. The figurative oil paintings have an uncanny approach. Orange haired people, potato face head, random eye representations are some of the unique features of Koos Ten Kate oil paintings. The figurative oil paintings have a contemporary approach to them. His oil paintings are mostly...
Seasonal colors of change sensational oil paintings by Phan Thu Trang are all set to blow your mind away. He was born in Hanoi and creates stunning oil paintings of beautiful landscapes. The northern villages from Vietnam are beautifully showcased as landscape decorative on his oil paintings. Phan Thu Trang's oil paintings are found...
Young Sung Kim is a Korean artist, who creates stunningly hyper realistic paintings of animals and fishes. Colourful fishes stare at you from glass tumbler, except for the fact that the glass and fishes are not real. They fishes, glass tumblers, snails, frogs are hyper realistic paintings. One can get confused with the realistic...
Gond painting is a form of artwork from folk and tribal art that is practised by one of the largest tribes in India, the Gond – who are predominantly from Madhya Pradesh and also can be found in pockets of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chattisgarh, and Odisha. The work of Gond artists are rooted in their folk tales and culture...
Steve Hanks is one of the famous watercolor artists around the world. Water color painting is a difficult medium, but Steve Hanks has made several hyper realistic paintings in this medium. Steve Hanks was born into a military family in San Diego in 1949, his father was a highly decorated WWII Navy flyer. he grew up playing tennis...
Tim O’Brien is an illustrator and portrait painter whose intricately detailed and imaginative illustrations have been published most notably in TIME Magazine as well as Der Spiegel, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, TV Guide, The Atlantic Monthly, Business Week and Entertainment Weekly. Tim has designed several US Postage Stamps. Tim...
In this post we have included some of famous and controversial MF Hussain's Paintings. India's best known 'art maestro' Maqbool Fida Husain popular know as MF Hussain is one of India's most charmistic artist who had redefined art to a great extent. According to the Forbes magazine he was "Picasso of India" for his wide...
These lovely animal watercolor paintings were created by Ukraine based artist Jonna Hyttinen. She understands nature very well and feels the need to preserve all wild animals. According to her, animals are always requesting us to protect the nature, so the natural resources can be enjoyed for many generations. The merging of nature...
Tanjore paintings or Thanjavur paintings have been popular from 16th century during the Marathas invasion to Southern india. If you have visited the temples in South India, most of them will have pictures of gods and goddess which are Tanjore paintings. It’s believed tanjore paintings started from Thanjavur a small town in...
Surreal Art : Jim Warren's work ranges from his own brand of surrealism, to paintings of social and environmental commentary, to those simply celebrating the beauty of nature. Many of these paintings, along with high quality limited edition Giclee on canvas prints thereof, are available through some of the top galleries in the...
Best Oil Paintings Around the world for your inspiration: Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments that are bound with a medium of drying oil. Traditional oil painting techniques often begin with the artist sketching the subject onto the canvas with charcoal or thinned paint. oil paint was first used for the Buddhist...