This is a collection of Oksana’s paintings in all possible mediums — acrylic, oil, watercolor, gouache. This category has several subcategories that present artwork by each type media.
Paintings
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Pear and Seeds Oil Painting
Have you ever looked at a piece of fruit and thought, “Wow, you have a story to tell?” That might sound a little silly, but when you spend hours staring at a pear while painting it, you start to wonder! I recently finished this small pear oil painting, and I’m excited to share a bit
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The Moody Blues Abstract Painting
I’m so excited to share this piece with you because it does something most canvases just don’t do. It plays along with you. I call this abstract painting The Moody Blues, and honestly, the title is doing double duty here. It describes the deep, atmospheric colors, but it also talks about your mood. Here is
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River of Soul Abstract Painting
The Beautiful Mess of Being Human (And Why I Painted It) Have you ever tried to explain exactly who you are to someone? It’s almost impossible, isn’t it? I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how none of us are just one thing. We aren’t just “happy” or “sad,” “good” or “bad.” We’re this wild, tangly mix
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Dreamy Lands Painting
In the world of fantasy, the sea can be any color. In Oksana’s Dreamy Lands painting it is yellow-green with a hint of pinks. This painting was inspired by sea haze and a play of sun rays through the think slice of air. This artwork is done in colors that are something out of fantasy
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Glass with a Sea Conch Still Life Painting
Here’s one of the first oil painting I attempted. It’s a simple still life of some glass objects and sea conch. I’m surprised it turned out alright as I had no idea what I am doing. However, the mystery of translucent objects has evaded my hand in this painting. I hope to attempt this some
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Autumn Road Sketch – Original Oil Painting
The road is short when you know it leads right to heaven. This painting of an autumn road is a quick sketch of an idea that I hope to rework in a larger format in the future. I used oil on linen panel to paint this small landscape. It is a mix of memories of
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Wave of Calm over Chaos, abstract painting
This abstract painting hides the idea of calmness taking over chaos. The perfect blue consumes the chaos of life, turning it into peaceful emptiness. From the other point of view, the blue wave could be creating chaos. In any case, this is the relationship of calmness and chaos. There is no one without the other;
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Mountain Flats – Landscape Oil Study
Last year, I took an online gouache painting course with Justin Donaldson. Most of the assignments in this course I did in gouache. However, some of them could have been done in any medium. I heard that gouache behaves very much like oil except that it dries much quicker. Therefore, I decided to give oil
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Fruity Road Block, apple & pear painting
Apple, pear on the floor.. who’s the pretties of them all? I have worked on a number of still life paintings, and especially apple and pear paintings lately, and I started to get bored of plain backgrounds. That’s when I had a thought of mentally transporting some of the still life setups into the outdoor
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Landscape Painting Course Assignments
In beginning of July, I signed up for landscape painting course with Justin Donaldson. So far, I went through half the course, and I’m super happy about it. I’ve learned a lot of new things which will definitely help me sharpen my skills! Here are the assignments in chronological order. I’m not entirely happy with
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Sunset at the Lake in Texas, original oil painting
Beauty of living in the south is the warmth of all seasons. Summer is for fun, and the rest of the year is for work! Now that it’s cooling down, I can get out and paint more often. Here’s a place in my neighborhood that I like to paint. It’s a quiet small lake with
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Plain Air Waterfall Painting
Ever since I learned about impressionists, I wanted to try plain air painting. There’s something magical about capturing the moment, the air, the ever-shifting reality. It turned out to be harder than I expected! At the time, I used acrylic paint, and due to it’s drying time it proved to be impractical to use in