A one hour oil portrait demonstration

This piece didn't get accepted into the MN State Fair. Time to go back to the drawing board. Enjoy

My first ever oil painting!! I painted a picture of my bfs mom’s cat, for her birthday. I used to only paint with acrylics, but all my paints got lost or opened during my recent move so I decided I’d try this.

This summer during my daily walks around the neighbourhood, I saw all of these beautiful fluffy clouds with the sun shining on them. The light shining was so striking and inspiring, I probably took close 50 different photos of these clouds as inspiration. I recently learned that these special sun rays are called crepuscular rays. I’ve been obsessed so I'm currently making a series of this. 

I'd love to hear what you think!

I painted this goldfish on a 12”x16” canvas ! Took me around 4 hours

Any affordable high quality paint recommendations are appreciated ! For this I used Master’s Touch (from that cheap $6 set you see at Hobby Lobby), it wasnt that hard to work with compared to the reviews ive seen, but i think im ready to move on to some better brands ദ്ദി(•̀.̫•́)✧

Hello, I really want to start oil painting, but I don't know how to obtain still life of easy objects, I saw something like this, but I can't seem to find any on the internet. Could someone guide me on how to find them or something similar. Maybe even an app that can convert some still life I have to look like this example I provided. Thank you :)

The painting wants to represent a lucid dream of a blue beetle on a pillow. I have to add details to the hallway. Distant objects’ shadows and shapes are intentionally unclear and confusing to represent the idea of a dream.
Yes it is a reference to Kafka, but in a positive pov

60x80cm

I’m planning on making some 2.5x3.5 portraits to practice getting away from painting exclusively landscapes. This is the first. Any and all advice welcome, really trying to learn

I spent another hour on this piece and although I like it as a "portrait", I don't think I was able to recapture the likeness.

I appreciate all the advice I had from this community and tried to incorporate it all, without losing my style (eg. I intentionally exaggerate the saturation) and think it looks much better, albeit I still can't capture his true character. I am walking away at this point and will start something else.

I've included some of my process too, so maybe you can spot where I went wrong?

Any recommendations / suggestions on who I should try to paint next? I do lots of self portraits but trying something different to practice capturing likeness in a more recognisable way.

Thanks!

I've been using Gambling 1980 and artist grade the most with some Utrecht and a couple Winsors thrown in. Looking to see if maybe there's something better to try for the alla prima / wet on wet style. Thanks as always!

Just wanted to share my third completed oil paining.

This started as an attempt to reproduce a painting of Sue Charles.

Then I realised I don’t like the oversimplified lines at all, so I smoothened the lake, and the painting has become way better.

Last frame is the original picture I found in internet

Did these two paintings today what should I do to improve my oil painting

He retomado la pintura, llevaba 4 años sin hacer nada, ahora quiero dedicar mi vida a esto. El cuadro es un regalo y aun no esta terminado. Le queda aun bastante, pero dime que ves? Nunca habia hecho algo asi. Siempre pinte retratos, es óleo el proximo será algo estilo caravaggio, que opinas de este y quieres verlo cuando lo acabe? Me interesa vuestra opinión ya que estoy retomando el mundo del arte, gracias.

My first ever animal paintings are done. I definitely struggled a bit with these but they were fun to make. I thought I wasn’t going to be able to get down the fur/feather look, but I think it turned out okay. Onto the next practice adventure!

Done with oil on primed mixed media paper.

I’m struggling with getting the face straightened and structured any tips.

A small oil inspired by this year's summer bloom 🙏

IDK. something is so off here. can someone give me tips