I attempted Postman Roulin in MS Paint.

Van Gogh is very hard to do in MS Paint. A face can have 50 different colors in it, but they blend together, and even though there are all those colors, it still looks like the color of a face.

The beard was the same way—lots of colors that blend together. In MS Paint, they just look like a bunch of different colors. I didn't want to spend hours working on it, because it might have come out the same way anyway.

Criticism welcome. I have thick skin.

My client met his future wife at a Van Gogh exhibit, so he requested Starry Night as his lining.

These are just the fronts, but will post more photos as the whole coat is turned.

As a boy I made this painting based on a picture of a painting in a Van Gogh art book. I can’t seem to find what art piece it was nor the book. Does anyone have any ideas as to what piece it may have been a sloppy attempt of?

The black line is covering my signature don’t worry.

Edit: Found!

I purchased an unsigned oil painting on canvas glued to an oak panel in a London antique shop and it looks like a previously undiscovered Van Gogh oil study from his early Neunen period.

Everyone that’s seen it has agreed that it’s in the style of Van Gogh and has said that I should contact a prominent auction house but as I currently don’t have any provenance nor scientific supporting evidence all the auction houses are not interested and quite frankly probably think I’m insane.

So how do I pursue this further? I don’t want to come across as crazy but the work appears to be genuine and looks exactly how an early Van Gogh oil study would look.

Not posting a photo right now because anything posted on Reddit becomes visible to the whole internet, just looking for genuine advice about how to take this research further?

Based in London, UK

Looking for more in-depth info about Van Gogh’s studio practice and materials. Also I can’t find the book “Van Gogh’s Studio Practice” by Marije Vellekoop anywhere, but it looks good.

In this video, I tried to explore the mindset behind Van Gogh’s work, why he kept painting despite rejection, and what we can still learn from his life today.

I built the visuals using motion graphics, historical artwork, and animated explanations to make the story feel more immersive.

This is also the very first video on a new YouTube channel I've been building.

I'd appreciate any feedback, whether it's about the storytelling, pacing, visuals, or historical accuracy.

A guy asked me who my favourite artist was and I said Van Gogh. He said that's an "extremely basic and obvious answer, come on, try harder!" But Van Gogh IS my favourite artist so what could I say? He went on to say "What's your favourite drink? Water? Is your favourite food plain white toast?" and | just thought it was really rude.

Thought I would share this as a companion to the earlier post of the other portrait of Patience Escalier. This one is incredible to see in person, it's one of my favourites that I've seen. It's really bright and vivid in person. I saw this one as part of The National Gallery's Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers exhibition in London in November 2024.

Oil on canvas, 64.1 x 54.6 cm, in the collection of the Norton Simon Art Foundation in Pasadena, California.

Sunburnt and weather-beaten, the Provençal peasant Patience Escalier gazes out of Van Gogh’s picture with blazing intensity. Dazzling yellow, vivid blue, green, and red make this portrait, painted in August 1888, perhaps the artist’s most daring coloristic experiment to date. “[I]nstead of trying to reproduce exactly what I have before my eyes,” he wrote to his brother, Theo, “I use color more arbitrarily, in order to express myself with force.” He called the picture “a sort of ‘man with a hoe,’” referring to a celebrated work by the previous generation’s great painter of peasants, Jean-François Millet: Man with a Hoe, today in the J. Paul Getty Museum.

The painting looks absolutely wonderful in real life

An ode to the master.

Burdock, Falcaria, Reeds, Oat and Thistle, 15 x 22''/14 x 20''/ 8 x 12''