Painting Inspiration & Artwork
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27 Realistic Silk-Themed Oil Paintings by Kathrin Longhurst
Kathrin’s work reflects her diverse cultural background, as she lived in many European countries before finally settling in Australia in 2000. Kathrin grew up in Communist East Germany, where she started taking life drawing classes at age 14. Her work is strongly influenced by socialist realism and communist propaganda art. Kathrin spent a decade in Scandinavia, visiting galleries in Denm...
25 Stunning Digital Artworks and Game Character Designs by Dan Luvisi
Dan Luvisi is known for his extremely versatile style, both in his approach to illustration and in the categories he explores. Besides concept illustrations, Luvisi has become an expert in character and costume design, matte paintings, storyboards, posters, and packaging design, and he generally welcomes new challenges within his field. Future skills he intends to add to his repertoire, as his ...
26 Hyper-Realistic and Beautiful Oil Paintings by Famous Artist Rob Hefferan
Rob Hefferan is an exceptionally talented figurative artist. His work not only captures the character and warmth of each subject but also transcends form to suggest the living, breathing essence of the individual. Working predominantly with oils and acrylics, Rob creates work that is both eminently understandable and intensely familiar. Colour, light, and texture harmonize intelligently and wit...
20 Hyper-Realistic and Beautiful Oil Paintings by Dick Bobnick
Dick Bobnick has been a successful illustrator for over 40 years. His versatility in creating celebrity portrait montages, beautiful figures, action-adventure and sports illustrations, historical scenes, and gorgeous pinups keeps his work in demand among regional, national, and international corporations, advertising agencies, public relations firms, and book and collectibles publishers. D...
25 Absurdity Surreal Illusion Paintings by Michael Cheval - The Game of Imagination
Illusion Art: Michael Cheval is the world's leading contemporary artist, specializing in Absurdist paintings, drawings and portraits. In his definition, "absurdity" is an inverted side or reality, a reverse side of logic. It does not emerge from the dreams of surrealists, or the work of subconsciousness. It is a game of imagination, where all ties are carefully chosen to construct a l...
25 Beautiful Oil Paintings by Chinese Artist Guan ZeJu
Guan ZeJu is a Senior Artist of the Guangzhou Art Institute and a member of the Artists’ Association of China; he has served as Director of the Guangdong Provincial Branch of the Artists’ Association of China and Vice-Secretary General of the Oil Painting Research Association of Guangdong, China. He currently resides in the United States where he works as a studio artist. He is also...
25 Stunning and Beautiful Watercolor Paintings by Steve Hanks
Steve Hanks is one of the most famous watercolor artists in the world. Watercolor painting is a difficult medium, but Steve Hanks has created several hyper-realistic paintings with it. Steve Hanks was born into a military family in San Diego in 1949; his father was a highly decorated World War II Navy flyer. He grew up playing tennis and surfing along the beaches of Southern California. “...
Paint Spilling Art Video - The Paintings of Holtan
Paint Spilling Art: Do you have a lot of half-used or sample paints? Art can be created from waste or leftovers. We have included some spray painting videos for your inspiration. Artist Holtan Rower’s spray painting piece was directed by Dave Kaufman. Before trying these spray painting techniques, keep the floor well covered with a protective sheet. After spraying one colour, wait a few m...
50 Stunning Boris Vallejo Paintings for Your Inspiration - Part 2
50 Stunning Boris Vallejo Paintings for Your Inspiration - Part 2
25 Celebrities Humorously Reimagined as Classic Paintings
What if today's celebrities went beyond TV and film and were actually the stars of classic paintings? Several photo manipulators on Worth1000, a website where users submit their Photoshopped images, explore exactly what that would look like. The images, often found in specific galleries titled Modern Renaissance, showcase the work of skilled photo manipulators with a sense of humor. I hope you ...
25 Creative Surreal Artworks from Around the World for Your Inspiration
Top surreal art picks by Ohmuller Gyuri: The self-taught surreal artist Ohmuller Gyuri is from Romania. He was born in 1962, and throughout his childhood, he had many teachers who guided him as he honed his painting skills. He started surreal painting and sketching at a very young age and found his own painting style, which is related to surrealism. His surreal art has been exhibited extensivel...
30 Stunningly Detailed Surreal Drawings and Art works - Surreal, Peculiar and Funny
Surreal Art: Lipton was inspired by the religious paintings of the Flemish School. She tried to teach herself how to paint in the style of the 16th century Dutch Masters and failed. When traveling around Europe as a student, she began developing her very own peculiar drawing technique building up tone with thousands of fine cross-hatching lines like an egg tempera painting. “It’s an...
25 Vibrant and Explosive Colorful Paintings by Francoise Nielly
Francoise Nielly is a French artist whose technique is crude and sophisticated, spontaneous, complex, expressive, exhibiting a brute force and a fascinating vital energy. Born in Marseille, her passion for drawing is influenced by the color and light from the sunny south coast of France where she grew up. Nielly doesn't rely on modern technology in her art, she simply needs oil and a palette kn...
20 HyperRealistic Three Dimensional Animal Paintings created in Layers of Resin by Kenglye
Fish Paintings: Singaporean artist KengLye illustrates 3d animals on bowls, buckets and boxes, Inspired by Great Master Riusuke Fukahori's technique using acrylic paint on clear resin. This time-consuming technique requires resin mixed with a hardener, then painting on each hardened layer to create depth. The result is a 3d sculptural painting that can be viewed at any angle. Its ama...
20 Beautiful Bouquet and Flower Oil Paintings by Szechenyi Szidonia
Bouquet, Flower Paintings: Summer is over, we can only remember the bright colors of the season and wait when it comes again. However in the bouquets of talanted artist Széchenyi Szidónia you can find beautiful frozen moments of the hot sunny time. Bright and juicy poppies, cheerful sunflowers, delicate daisies convey all the charm of the ended summertime. Choose your favorite bou...
20 Beautiful Baby Oil Paintings for your inspiration
Baby Paintings: Babies are the greatest gifts from God to happy parents. No matter how old a person gets, they are still a child to their mother. Memories of childhood are preserved in family photo albums. You can also preserve oil paintings of children; have a look at our collection, and you will be amazed by the detail and reflections of light in these oil paintings. Children love pretend pla...
10 Amazing Hand Painting Illusions by Ray Massey and Annie Ralli
Hand painting: Ray Massey is an advertising photography, who specialises mostly in fluids photography. He teamed up with hand painting artists Annie Ralli and Annie Miller for an advertising campaign which goes by the name " You are in good hands". This hand painting series uses only hands to create stunning pieces of work, you can see athletes getting ready to sprint, but if you have...
25 Absurdity Illusion Paintings by Michael Cheval - Master of Imagination
Illusion Art: Michael Cheval is the world's leading contemporary artist, specializing in Absurdist paintings, drawings and portraits. In his definition, "absurdity" is an inverted side or reality, a reverse side of logic. It does not emerge from the dreams of surrealists, or the work of subconsciousness. It is a game of imagination, where all ties are carefully chosen to construct a l...
25 Beautiful Surreal Art works by Lohmuller Gyuri
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 the Popular School of Arts. Back to the high-school in Gataia, pro...
20 Mind-Blowing Hyper Realistic Pebbles and Rocks Paintings by Ester Roi
I relish the contrast between a solid rock above the surface and its restless reflection below; the realistic depiction of a floating daisy versus its abstract, refracted counterpart. I marvel at how a flower can take on a new identity when floating below the surface and I strive to capture its ever-changing shape. Water transforms everything it touches: hard lines become soft, warm colors cool...