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.
Ferran Codoñer
Ferran Codoñer is a Spanish artist whose paintings feel like frozen film stills, though very little about his background or training has been documented online. What stands out most is the…
Waldemar J. Marszalek
Waldemar J. Marszalek is a Polish artist who began in lithography and graphic design before moving into painting in the 1990s and digital work in the 2000s. He has taught at…
Thomas Wilmer Dewing
Thomas Wilmer Dewing was an American painter known for soft, tonal portraits of elegant women in hushed interiors, work that feels distant yet intimate. A founding member of the Ten American…
Walid Ebeid
Walid Ebeid is an Egyptian painter who began drawing at six years old and later trained in realistic expressionism, earning his master’s degree in oil painting. His work has shown across…
Aziz Sulaymanov
Aziz Sulaymanov is one of Kyrgyzstan’s leading painters, known for palette-knife paintings of the Kyrgyz landscape and bright floral still lifes. Trained in Bishkek and St. Petersburg, his work has won…
Edgar Alwin Payne
Edgar Alwin Payne was an American landscape painter devoted almost obsessively to the American West, from the Sierras to the Grand Canyon. He helped found the Laguna Beach art colony, often…
Stanka Kordic
Stanka Kordic is an American painter born to Croatian parents, who left a commercial art career in 1988 to paint landscapes, figures, and portraits full time. Her layered, dreamlike scenes now…
Nathan Brutsky
Nathan Brutsky is an Israeli painter based in Tel Aviv who picked up a pencil as a child at his father’s urging and never really put it down. After years working…
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
Frederick Arthur Bridgman was an American painter known for vivid Orientalist scenes shaped by years spent sketching in Algeria and Egypt. Trained in Paris under Jean-Léon Gérôme, he earned the Legion…
William Glackens
William Glackens was an American realist painter and a leading figure of the Ashcan School, known for lively street scenes of New York and Paris that brightened under Renoir’s influence later…
Anders Zorn
Anders Zorn was a Swedish painter, sculptor, and etcher celebrated for incisive portraits and luminous scenes of water and rural life, working from a famously narrow palette of just four colors.…
Scott Nickerson
Scott Nickerson is an American portrait painter who builds his figures the way old masters did, layering color from dark to light until the skin feels alive. He also teaches weekly…
