oil-painting
This tag marks work made with oil paint specifically, a slow drying medium that lets artists blend tones for hours and rework a passage until it feels right. Oil has stayed a favorite among painters for centuries because of that flexibility, letting the same medium produce soft glows, sharp edges, or thick, textured layers depending on how it’s handled. Use this tag to browse oil paintings specifically, separate from acrylic, watercolor, or other painting mediums on the site.
Françoise Nielly
Françoise Nielly is a French painter known for electric, palette knife portraits built from thick oil and saturated color. Working from black and white photographs, she paints faces with a raw,…
Jules Breton
Jules Breton was a French painter who turned the everyday work of gleaners and harvesters into some of the 19th century’s most admired rural scenes. Paintings like The Song of the…
Daniel Garber
Daniel Garber was an American painter and a leading voice of Pennsylvania Impressionism, known for luminous scenes of Bucks County and the Delaware River. He often anchored his landscapes with a…
Serge Marshennikov
Serge Marshennikov is a Russian painter known for intimate, almost photographic portraits of women in quiet domestic rooms. Trained at the Repin Academy in St. Petersburg, he builds skin, hair, and…
John William Waterhouse
John William Waterhouse was a British painter who filled his canvases with myth, poetry, and tragic, romantic heroines. Best known for his multiple versions of The Lady of Shalott and Ophelia,…
Jack Sorenson
Jack Sorenson paints the American West the way he actually lived it, having grown up driving stagecoaches and working as a gunfighter at Six Gun City in Texas. His warm, story…
Pablo Solari
Pablo Solari is an Argentine painter who taught himself by studying classical masters and muralists before developing his own bold, socially rooted style. His large, saturated canvases capture everyday Argentine life,…
Ben Shahn
Ben Shahn was a Lithuanian born American painter who became one of the strongest voices in Social Realism, using art to speak for workers and immigrants. His series on the Sacco…
Victor Wang
Victor Wang is a Chinese American painter whose portraits carry the weight of memory, migration, and a childhood shaped by the Cultural Revolution. He returns often to sunflowers, once a symbol…
Bryan Mark Taylor
Bryan Mark Taylor is an American landscape painter who mixes classical training with a restless love of travel, catching small, atmospheric moments wherever he goes. He also invented the STRADA easel,…
Laurent Parcelier
Laurent Parcelier is a French painter whose sunlit scenes of Provence and the Luberon feel like an endless warm afternoon. He started his career drawing comics before turning fully to painting…
Denis Sarazhin
Denis Sarazhin is a Ukrainian painter known for dynamic figures caught in twisting poses, with expressive hands that carry as much emotion as the faces around them. Trained at the Kharkiv…
