small painting

  • Pear and Seeds Oil Painting

    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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  • Dreamy Lands Painting

    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

    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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  • Fruity Road Block, apple & pear painting

    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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  • Sunset at the Lake in Texas, original oil painting

    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

    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

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  • Apple and Pear on the Table, oil painting

    Apple and Pear on the Table, oil painting

    I continue to experiment with small still life setups, like this pear painting. However, this time I chose two subjects. The apple and pear are the best of friends, especially in a pie! Anyway, let’s stay on topic here! I tried to make the apple to be the focal point of this painting. The pear

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  • Bouquet of Mums in a Vase, oil painting

    Bouquet of Mums in a Vase, oil painting

    Ever since I got a small garden, I can actually pick flowers and put them in a vase every now and then. I try to use every opportunity I get to paint them, and these mums were perfect for the task. I always loved flowers, but painting them could be quite a tedious process. In

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  • The Pear, oil painting

    The Pear, oil painting

    This is indeed The Pear for me, since it’s the first pear I tried to paint with oil paint. I love the way it turned out, and it might even be my favorite painting of the year. It’s hard to show the beauty of oil paint with just a photograph, but depending on the lighting,

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  • Lemon on the Checkered Tablecloth, oil painting

    Lemon on the Checkered Tablecloth, oil painting

    I have recently started exploring oil paint as a medium, and I fell in love with it immediately. The translucency and vividness of colors impressed me so much, that I wanted to throw color everywhere! This gave me an idea to start a series “Drunk with Color.” I started my journey with small still life

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  • Paint Pierre Challenge

    Paint Pierre Challenge

    I attempted my first watercolor portrait! 😀 I never really painted people with watercolors before, apart from princesses when I was a child 😀 This is a #paintpierre challenge by @artsavoirfaire (IG) and @theartsherpa (IG), I’m finally participating in things! 😀 I also recorded a process video, check out my YouTube to view video! Pierre

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  • Quiet Day in July, gouache painting

    Quiet Day in July, gouache painting

    The weather in Texas is very much unpredictable. It can be a calm and sunny afternoon after a swooping thunderstorm in the morning. This is one of those “quiet now” days in July — water too cold to get in the pool, but it’s nice to just sit in the shade.

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