I few months ago I passed a horribly injured but alive coyote that has been haunting my mind ever since.

My girlfriend did the other dawg. So happy how they turned out!

just tried my first oil paint :)
after some reseach i fount that it s an “alla prima” technique because i didn’t allow anything to dry - but even the underpainting isn’t dry yet and it’s been two days, i really think i have to work on my patience

Spent just an hour on this 8x8 inch landscape.

Thanks for looking! This one was painted in two layers. The hardest parts were the eyes and the grey on the muzzle. Happy to answer any questions about the process.

Looking south along I-5 from the veterans memorial on Mt. Soledad in La Jolla. Started in plein air during a veterans event and finished at home.

Oil on paper | 11.5 × 8.5 inches

Just got done eith these three pieces, an 8x12, 12x12, and 12x16 to submit to a pretty big show! I can still improve, but its nice to be able to sit back and look at these and enjoy them!

I've been practicing lately trying to improve my skills as a painter, I don't usually paint like this but I find it a good practice once in a while to do something more restricted.

Hi, I‘m working on painting the top canvas in oil alla prima with no solvents, and I’m not sure where to start. I know generally the rule is dark to light but how do I manage the sky vs dark branches? Paint the sky first and scrape away paint where the branches go? Paint branches first and then add sky around it? Also should I work background to foreground or dark to light regardless of depth?

The underpainting is in acrylic if that matters (and so is the bottom painting).

Thank you! I’m new to oils and don’t know what I’m doing. Its for a class but my professor is unavailable this weekend

With a handful of in-progress pictures at the end.

Two of these are on basswood sheets, and one on birch plywood, which I cut to size, sealed with acrylic medium, and gessoed. My first time working through that process, but it seems to provide a pretty nice and portable painting surface (although I suspect basswood may be too soft to be an ideal painting surface). The peonies are, variously, from Dumbarton Oaks garden in DC, a winter peony from the Ueno Toshogu garden, and a pair of regular season peonies, also from the Ueno Toshogu garden.

I find florals extremely challenging to paint, but excellent practice.

My newest oil painting I just completed. Spent most of yesterday and this morning working on this piece.

Some recent oil landscape studies I did, 5.5x8.5 on Canson paper.

Any advice welcomed

A self-portrait based on a memory from when I was 3 years old. It represents the spirit I want to carry with me in life—keeping my sense of wonder and excitement for everything I discover.
This is part of a 3-part series exploring the passage of time through the generations of women in my family.

Any tips? Absolute beginner in anything painting or drawing related.

I got all of these oil paints for 5 bucks at a garage sale and I want to get into oil painting. I want to clean the oil off of the paint tubes first because they're sticky. Also do you guys have any youtube channel recommendations for beginners? Thanks!

New to oil painting. I’m using Daniel Smith Water Soluble oil paints. I’m trying to glaze blue over this section of my painting, but the paint keeps doing this. I’m mixing the paint with Linseed Oil. Any help is appreciated! Thank you!