Our Collection Of Oil Paintings

View our own extensive collection of museum quality works of art. These works of art are NOT gales, canvas transfer prints that are enhanced to appear as though they are hand-painted or computer generated prints on paper or canvas. All paintings in this, and every gallery on our website, are genuine hand-painted works of art produced on high quality artist grade canvas using only the finest oil paints. Each and every work of art is painted brush stroke by brush stroke, carefully and meticulously by one of our highly skilled master artists.

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About Painting

What is it the defines as paintings?

What does the age-old practice of painting amount to at the beginning of the 21st century? What happened to the generally accepted idea of art as representation in modern art?

Bell writes incisively and clearly about the issues that have dominated painting in the last two hundred years. 'What is Painting' is a remarkable achievement, an accessible inspired account of artistic thinking and practice, and of the complexities facing those who make, are puzzled by and write about contemporary art. More understanding modern art, or in making art themselves.

It presents a selection of artworks made since on an average including a number of recent acquisitions and many works displayed for the first time since the Museum's reopening. A variety of responses to the question "What is painting?" are proposed in loose chronological sequence, ranging from ironic to sincere; from figurative to abstract; and from an embrace and creative re imagining of painting's possibilities to a critical engagement with its limits.

Painting Process

                                                           

Step 1. The artist starts with a blank canvas that has been cut to meet your size requirements having approximately two inches of canvas added on all sides of your oil painting to be left blank… to permit the painting to ultimately be stretched onto stretcher bars for framing. The artist begins with a sketch outlining the key elements of the oil painting, allowing the artist to pay attention to the composition of the painting.

Step 2. The artist usually starts to paint with large brushes around the outline sketched in step 1 to cover the white of the canvas with pl

Step 3. In this step the artist starts to focus on objects, forms and combining colors to produce diverse hue intensity as needed to produce the desired depth of various aspects of the painting. At the end of this step, as with each additional step, the artist usually needs to allow time for the painting to dry before moving to the next step Read More

Shop By Subject

In the field of painting there are many subject or title.

With over 40,000 masterpiece in our files, many of our customers narrow down their searches and shop by the art subject they require or the art style that complements their home or office decor. You will find numerous in such subject categories as, Floral paintings, Waterfront paintings, and Street Scenes...just to name a few. Shopping by Subject saves time and makes shopping easy. In addition, you can also search by artist for that work of art you have been seeking View all