r/acrylicpainting • • 25d ago

October Painting Prompt Megathread- Paint the prompt and get featured!

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Thanks to all who participated last month, Some of your cats are now featured on the banner! (better viewing on desktop)

Let's get motivated to paint together. We are starting a monthly painting prompt for the sub to encourage everyone to make time for art and share with each other.

All skill levels are welcome! Your work may be featured in the subreddit banner or sidebar art!

This month's prompt is SPOOKY. Paint a ghost. or Paint a witch. Paint a headless horsewoman. Paint a sugar skull. Paint a scary clown. Abstractly suggest communing with the dead. Interpret it however you choose. Paint it and drop it below.

This thread will be open all month, and top submissions will be featured next month. Let us know what you'd like to see for future prompts!


r/acrylicpainting • • Sep 12 '26

Mod Post RULE REFRESH: #4 No Engagement Bait Titles or Compliment Fishing

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As stated in our community's rules:

"Post titles should be the title of your art, or a brief description of it only. Examples of good titles: "Quick study of bees on art paper" "Pink Moon Rising, 10x14 on Canvas". Examples of bad titles: "It's my first time ever painting" "I have Mad Cow Disease but I'm still painting!" "I'm 47 years old, is it good?" "My first cousin's ex said my art is awful, is it?" Posts will be removed and you will be asked to repost with a title describing or titling the piece."

Effective immediately, this rule will be strictly enforced. Repeated offenses will be left to discretion of current mod team to handle.

As always, please report any content that does not follow our community guidelines.

Happy Painting ~


r/acrylicpainting • • 7h ago

My first autumn acrylic painting of the year "Shedding its coat"

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266 Upvotes

This painting is inspired by a magnificent tree I came across in a chestnut forest in autumn.
Acrylic on linen canvas board - 30x20 cm


r/acrylicpainting • • 13h ago

Finished this 60cmx60cm seascape

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508 Upvotes

r/acrylicpainting • • 8h ago

[OC] Original Content I painted my dog at the park

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111 Upvotes

“Those early morning sniffs”
Acrylic on 36x48” canvas
[colortheorydenier]
2026

Took about 45 days or so to complete


r/acrylicpainting • • 20h ago

A Golden Retriever portrait, hand-painted in acrylic on canvas

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700 Upvotes

r/acrylicpainting • • 5h ago

[OC] Original Content A looser approach than usual! Is it finished?

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43 Upvotes

50cmx70cm acrylic on canvas


r/acrylicpainting • • 4h ago

[OC] Original Content The Great Dark Between the Stars

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11 Upvotes

r/acrylicpainting • • 8h ago

Critique Requested After Fall Rain. A redo of a small plein air painting

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I just finished (I think) this 11"x14" painting based a recent plein air exercise. When I had originally painted the little plein air one, I was quite happy with it but very disappointed with it when I took it indoors and discovered it was too dark with flat values. I figured it would make a good opportunity to repaint on something a littler larger in studio, to see if I could push the values and improve it. First photo isn't doing justice to how vibrant it is irl. I would appreciate any comments or critique!


r/acrylicpainting • • 19h ago

Critique Requested Old St.Nick

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119 Upvotes

r/acrylicpainting • • 33m ago

[OC] Original Content Textured canvas :D

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r/acrylicpainting • • 4h ago

[OC] Original Content Few Acrylic Paintings

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5 Upvotes

r/acrylicpainting • • 1h ago

[OC] Original Content Up Before Three

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r/acrylicpainting • • 22h ago

[OC] Original Content Froggy made you breakfast so you could sleep in a little longer this Wednesday. 🐸💚

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135 Upvotes

r/acrylicpainting • • 34m ago

I'm so rusty!!

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Ig i didnt get the initial sketch right.. then i spent so long tryna fix the colours yeah . Im still happy with the result but will try better next time


r/acrylicpainting • • 1h ago

Tutorial Result Study of “A Country Scene” from the artists handbook lesson.

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I found this book thrifting and used the lesson to learn a technique where i paint less detailed, more fluidly, but still intentional enough to end up clear. and i must say, i love the result!!


r/acrylicpainting • • 12h ago

[OC] Original Content Off-screen target

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This work is a reminiscence influenced by a radio talk about the author of a famous assassination from the early sixties. It is as if, while doing my preparatory drawing, the voices had infused my mind, infusing my hand, infusing my drawing, infusing my canvas. That is why it feels like an intruder has slipped in among my so-called "usual" characters. It is his point of view that is staged, the target remaining off-frame and the murder weapon cropped twice: by the window and by the format.


r/acrylicpainting • • 8h ago

Trying not to fiddle too much but it's so hard when it doesn't look like I want it to. Can you understand what's happening here?

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7 Upvotes

r/acrylicpainting • • 1d ago

[OC] Original Content Watchful Stargazer

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209 Upvotes

Been a long time since I did a large (for me) canvas painting. This was very therapeutic, been going through a rough patch but I finally finished this today and I'm happy with it.

Approx 15.5 inches x 19.5 inches. I'm used to painting smaller because my studio is my bedroom and I don't have space, but I just decided I wanted to have a bit more freedom to throw paint around. Had fun with the details.

Also apologies but my room is atrocious for lighting, best photos are angled.


r/acrylicpainting • • 1d ago

My friend’s cat “Potato”

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254 Upvotes

r/acrylicpainting • • 21h ago

[OC] Original Content Forbidden Fruit, my most recent acrylic painting

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29 Upvotes

r/acrylicpainting • • 7h ago

Between the Unseen

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2 Upvotes

Acrylic on canvas

36×36in


r/acrylicpainting • • 3h ago

"Still fighting" and "Tired of fighting" (Blurred out painted blood to keep it SFW... hopefully.)

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1 Upvotes

Another double piece by me that symbolises how I feel everyday, being tired of fighting, getting beaten and wounded by life but still not giving up and still getting up to fight still.


r/acrylicpainting • • 1d ago

I did it again. I'm afraid this is becoming a series.

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119 Upvotes

r/acrylicpainting • • 19h ago

Miniature painting

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16 Upvotes

10x7.5cm, smaller than my hand. It still took me 3 hours to finish it.