painting

This tag marks work made through painting broadly, across any medium, oil, acrylic, watercolor, or otherwise, when a piece doesn’t fit neatly under one of the more specific medium tags. Painting remains one of the oldest and most flexible art forms there is, using pigment and a surface to build image, mood, and meaning. Use this tag as a general way to browse painted work across the site without narrowing to one particular medium or style.

Diego Dayer

Diego Dayer is an Argentine painter based in Córdoba who paints quiet, layered scenes about memory. Calm figures, faint traces of the past, and blindfolds that hint at truths we’d rather not face.
Chien Chung-Wei

Chien Chung-Wei is a Taiwanese watercolorist who paints cityscapes, markets, and quiet daily moments with delicate washes of light and color. His careful brushwork turns ordinary scenes into something that feels alive.
Z.L. Feng

Z.L. Feng is a Chinese American watercolorist and professor known for portraits of Tibetans, Native Americans, and rural Southern families. He paints past pretty faces to find real character, earning hundreds of awards along the way.
Stan Miller

Stan Miller has painted in watercolor for more than thirty years, building a patient, observant style in Spokane, Washington. He once earned a poor grade in his first watercolor class, retook it, and went on to exhibit his work worldwide.
Michael Klein

Michael Klein is an American painter known for floral still lifes built on classical technique and a Midwestern eye for honest color. He also paints portraits, including a grand prize winning piece for the Portrait Society of America.
Robert Hagan

Robert Hagan is an Australian painter who has spent thirty years chasing wild light, a love that took root in his boyhood in the Tweed Valley. What started as a hobby carried his brush across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Asia.
Tarmeño Fernández Villalba

Tarmeño Fernández Villalba is a Peruvian painter who gives dignity to people often left out of art, from street children in Ecuador to prisoners and rural workers. He paints faces, horses, and quiet human struggle in watercolor, acrylic, and oil.
Pavel Sokov

Pavel Sokov is a Russian born portrait painter who left a marketing career to study classical drawing at Watts Atelier. His Gravitas series paints scientists with the same care usually reserved for royalty, and his portraits now hang in collections worldwide.
Leonid Afremov

Leonid Afremov was a Belarusian painter known for palette knife cityscapes so vivid they feel wet with color. His sons helped bring his work to a global audience through early online sales, turning him into one of the most collected painters of his generation.
Kinuko Y. Craft

Kinuko Y. Craft is a Japanese American illustrator whose richly detailed paintings turn myths and fairy tales into modern classics. Trained in Japan and Chicago, she has created book covers, opera posters, and award winning fantasy art for decades.
John Jude Palencar

John Jude Palencar is an American illustrator known for haunting, symbolic book covers for authors like Tolkien, King, and Le Guin. Working in layered acrylic washes, he turns fear and mystery into quiet, dreamlike images that have earned him the Hamilton King Award and Spectrum’s Grand Master honor.
Roman Bozhkov

Roman Bozhkov is a Russian landscape painter who works directly from nature, catching small fleeting moments like a sunbeam on a vine or a magpie on a fence. His realistic scenes of the Russian countryside carry a quiet, personal warmth that keeps collectors coming back.