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...
The award-winning magic realism art of Paul David Bond Pesqueira has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in galleries, museums and cultural centers, including the Haro Gallery, Culver City and the San Diego Art Institute. His paintings are in private and corporate collections, including the Hotel Hershey in Hershey,...
Kinkade called himself "The Painter of Light", and by some estimates, 1 in every 20 American homes has one of his paintingssssssss. The fine art world thought he was a money grubbing hack, a sellout for peddling his works through shit like QVC. I call it "business acumen". And I don't care whether you like him...
Artist and Graphic designer Igor Morski has created these unbelievable surreal illustrations that will take you to his dream world. It takes you with imagination and creative ability to bring to life such interesting situations, which is what makes these images particularly impressive. Really well-composed, surreal mastery. Polish...
He completed his Fine Art studies, which he had started in Milan, at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid in 2007. He also holds a 'Bachelor of Design (Hons) Degree' in Illustration from the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Arts in Dundee (UK) which he obtained in 2001. During his stay in Madrid he also won several art prizes,...
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...
In this post we have included 50 Beautiful Oil Paintings by Andrei Belichenko - Woman, Garden and Dreams for your inspiration. Andrei is an exceptional artist whose work has been recognized internationally and nationally. His oil paintings capture the light reflections very effectively and most of his subjects are women. Andrei...
A black and white forest is colored in vibrant hues under our eyes except for one sad little panda, which sets off the compassion of an imaginative little boy. DDB Paris follows up its award-winning Le Ballon with a sweeping new animated spot, Colors. The spot, for TiJi, Lagardere Active's preschool channel, goes back to "the...
Oil Paintings : With the right kind of oil paints and brushes, oil paintings will become a lot more easier. It’s good to invest in some good oil paints, if you are looking for serious hobby. Good quality brushes and paints go a long way in making the oil painting look stunning. Oil paintings can take anywhere between three...
Stanislav V. Plutenko (born 1st March 1961), The artist’s signature method — a mixed technique employing oil, tempera, acrylic, watercolour — is skilfully supplemented with masterly airbrushing and finest glazing with clear paints. Worked with galleries: Arbat 48, Arbat 34, Mars, Aspire, Medici Haus, and others. A...
You're walking in a gallery, along a wall of oil portraits - all of them impressive works of art. They're so good, they're almost popping off the canvas. Until you realise....they actually are. Al Jazeera reports from Washington DC.
Bryce Cameron Liston is a self taught artist born in Utah in 1965. His mother was his greatest inspiration as he used to watch her paint the Utah landscapes from his childhood. He has a passion of painting human forms with great depth and detailing. His oil paintings have been exhibited in many exhibitions around the world and have...
Mariusz Kozik is a Poland based illustrator and concept artist. He graduated in the year 2000 and his first solo exhibition was at BWA Wroclaw. His oil paintings are highly praised by art collectors as they are hyper realistic and bring out the scene so beautifully. His oil paintings are mostly unusual and depict his creativity in a...
Artist Duffy Sheridan was inspired by his father to paint from early childhood. His artist father has been the guiding steps to his international success as a painter. His family has travelled extensively and his paintings draw inspiration from rich culture of many countries. In 1991 he finnaly settled down in USA and his oil...
Tim O’Brien is an established freelance portrait painter and illustrator for the past 50 years. His realistic portraits have featured in many popular magazines like TIME, Rolling Stone, Business Week, Entertainment weekly etc. He has created several award winning surreal oil paintings which have been recognized by the Society...
Chinese Woman Paintings : The Chinese have been using calligraphy for many centuries and the same brushes can be used for paintings. Their brushes are different as it has a finer tip. They use different kind of brushes for painting flowers, bamboos, orchids, animals etc. The strokes of the brush are individual to each painter and...
Paul David Bond is a Mexican artist currently settled in San Clemente. He graduated from La Jolla Academy of Art and his quite popular for his surreal oil paintings. His paintings are a mixture of magic and realism which is a treat to the art viewers. He has conducted several solo and group exhibitions and most of his paintings are...
Oil Paintings : He is a Russian Artist who use his oil paintings to reflect his “Metaphor”, There is no plot, no script that guides your thoughts, only the experience of his strange connection between people and events. Here it’s in his paintings it shows a vision of love, customs, nature and metaphor, where dreams...