Painting

August 21, 2016

Emotive Oil Paintings of Nostalgic Beach Scenes in Beautiful Bokeh

With rich strokes of oil paint, Philip Barlow renders beachside snapshots in mesmerizing blurs of bokeh, as if shot through unfocused camera lenses. His style eschews inconsequential compositional details in favor of accentuated ambience, smudging the scenes into soft smears of color while honing crisp, shimmering circles from each spot where sun rays reach earth.

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July 26, 2016

Self-Taught Artist Discovers Incredible Painting Skills While Taking Care of His Sick Dog

Derbyshire-based painter Darren Reid creates stunning, photorealistic landscapes of serene seascapes, expansive landscapes, and bustling cityscapes. Each work, when looked at closely enough, reveals a layer of acrylic detail that heightens the painting to a hyperrealistic level. A road is not just a road, but a pointillist blend of colors (think Seurat or Pissarro) that fuse together when looked at to play tricks on the viewer's eye.

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July 11, 2016

Fantastical Paintings Inspired by 19th Century Romanticism Created on Layers of Resin

Pittsburgh-based mixed media artist Andy Kehoe creates imaginary forests where vibrant mysticism grows wild. His tableaux feature strange creatures that appear part human, part animal, rendered tiny amid towering trees and shimmering celestial skies or sometimes taller than the woods themselves, as if one and the same with the earthly landscape. To build each enchanting scene, Kehoe paints on top of layered resin, building shadow and dimension between the surreal subjects and their surrounding environments.

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July 5, 2016

Van Gogh Masterpieces Reimagined with Spellbinding Tilt-Shift Effect

Vincent van Gogh is renowned for his Post-Impressionistic paintings, depicting open air scenes with lush color and swirling movement. Using Photoshop, Redditor melonshade has reimagined some of the artist's masterpieces, blurring the backgrounds as if filtering the works through a tilt-shift lens. The digital technique appears like a modern cousin to the hyper-stylized aesthetic of the Post-Impressionism movement, warping sharper shapes into softened forms to heighten sensory and emotional impact.

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