Beautiful Australian Landscape Oil Paintings

Graham Gercken is an award winning Australian landscape painting artist who was born in 1960. He is a self-taught artist who loves to paint with oil paint.

Towering Mixed Media Portraits

‘Sunset (Good Morning Beautiful, I Waited All Night Long)’ Oil, oil pastel, spray, and hand-dyed and hand stitched linen on Canvas, 245 x 215 cm

Canadian-born artist Andrew Salgado presents a new body of work composed of towering portraits

Hyperrealistic Oil Paintings of Vivid Chrome Masks

Brooklyn-based artist Kip Omolade creates large-scale oil paintings of chrome masks, depicting not only the subtle details of female faces, but incorporating the reflected environment of each piece.

The Remarkable Story of St Kilda’s Residents

Photo credit: Colin Campbell/Flickr 

The remote archipelago of St Kilda, off the west coast of the Scottish mainland, is truly an isolated place. Located some 64 km west of the Outer Hebrides, it is the most remote part of the British Isles.

Photographs of Iridescent Oil Spills

As part of an ongoing effort to explore the visual effects of iridescence, artist Fabian Oefner created a photographic series titled Oil Spill. To create the images he used a syringe to drip small drops of oil into a black reservoir containing water.

The Man Who Made it Rain

Jeff Rowland is an established contemporary artist – mainly in oil and pencil – who lives in the UK on the North East coast near Newcastle. After studying art at North Tyneside College, Jeff became a self employed professional artist.

The Sea: Beautiful Oil Paintings

When you first consider The Sea, a series by South African artist Philip Barlow you would think they were blurred photographs rather than oil paintings of beach life.