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.
Lucian Michael Freud
Lucian Freud was a British painter, grandson of Sigmund Freud, known for portraits that stripped away any glamour and left just skin, weight, and presence. He worked only from live sitters,…
Malcolm T. Liepke
Malcolm Liepke paints women in bars and dim rooms, working wet into wet so the brushstrokes stay loose and alive. His paintings hang in the Smithsonian and the Brooklyn Museum, and…
Artist Laurits Andersen Ring
Laurits Andersen Ring was a Danish painter who showed rural poverty honestly, without making it look prettier than it was, which earned him the nickname the Apostle of the Hideous. He…
Costa Dvorezky
Costa Dvorezky trained in Moscow before moving to Toronto, where early confusion over his work pushed him toward the raw, floating figures he paints today. He layers heavy, sculptural bodies over…
Alfred Guillou
Alfred Guillou was a French painter from the Brittany coast who captured the hard, uncertain life of fishing families, most famously in his farewell scene Adieu. He is largely forgotten today,…
François Bard
François Bard is a French painter known for close up portraits where a single beam of light cuts across a face and leaves the rest in shadow. His thick, scraped oil…
Stephen Bennett
Stephen Bennett is an American painter who spent over twenty years traveling to more than thirty countries to paint indigenous faces, often seven feet tall. He grinds his own pigments and…
Philippe Loubat
Philippe Loubat is a French painter from Montpellier who fills his canvases with floating figures, circus imagery, and dreamlike color, drawing on influences from Fellini to Alice in Wonderland. He has…
Carmen Mansilla
Carmen Mansilla is a Spanish figurative painter who paints quiet, private moments rather than big dramatic scenes, a woman at a table, a child asleep. She uses soft light and leaves…
Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski
Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski was a Polish realist painter best known for winter scenes of wolves, sleighs, and horses caught mid motion. He trained with the Munich School and died in 1915, but…
Gary Niblett
Gary Niblett paints the American Southwest with warm, golden light and a realism that never feels cold or technical. His cowboys and Native American elders are shown as real people with…
Ivan Aivazovsky
Ivan Aivazovsky was a Russian Armenian painter who devoted his career almost entirely to the sea, working from memory in his studio near the Black Sea where he grew up. He…
