Oil Painting

February 6, 2021

Artist “Travels” To Scotland’s Isle of Skye in a Luminous Landscape Oil Painting

For many creatives, a new year brings fresh inspiration for original projects. In 2021, Atlanta-based artist Courtney Myers is challenging her painting skills by rendering an oil landscape for as many as 12 different countries. Her first completed work transports the viewer to the awe-inspiring nature of Scotland, which features a diverse landscape of grassy hills, rocky cliffs, expansive bodies of water, and a warm sunset on the horizon.

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December 13, 2020

Lively Paintings Capture the Dynamic Energy of Bustling Cities at Night [Interview]

It can be difficult to encapsulate large cities such as New York and Hong Kong in just one painting. But for German artist Martin Köster, he welcomes the challenge. Using expressive brushstrokes and a colorful palette of oil paints, he manages to capture the intricacy of architectural details and the buzz of urban life when it shines best—at night. It's in the darkness that the magic of these places is revealed.

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February 11, 2016

Artist Expresses Her Own Emotions through Hyperrealistic Paintings of Women with Different Faces

Bronwyn Hill is an up-and-coming figurative painter based in Brisbane, Australia. Her delicate artwork typically depicts realistic portraits of women placed in natural settings, rendered through oil paints and skilled layering techniques. Each of Hill's artworks capture a lovely and natural beauty, radiating tangible emotion that speaks volumes of her artistic talent. Naming light and patterns in nature as leading influences within her pieces, Hill makes use of her artwork as a means of self-expression.

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