Realistic oil painting

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Beautiful paintings of roses and other flowers by Irish Artist Vincent Keeling Also limited edition prints

Discover the key role color temperature plays in painting skin tones that have a realistic 'life' to them. Along with how to start mixing skin tone colors!

By Brandi Bowman in Art Tutorials > Painting Tutorials Painting glass realistically in oil paint so that it looks like glass—transparent, shiny, and thin—may seem like a complicated challenge, but it’s really not as difficult as you would think. The key is to keep it simple and avoid overworking the light reflections. Here are the steps I take when painting a wine glass, or any other clear glass, in a still life painting: 1. Set up your still life with one light […]

With their use of soft focus and reflected light, these artworks look like still-life photographs. In fact they are all painstakingly rendered with acrylic paints by Canadian artist Jason de Graaf.

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Since the ancient Greeks, realism has been aspired by Western art lovers, but during the late 1960s and '70s the popularity of highly-realistic drawings reached its peak. Thus, Photorealism and Hyperrealism were born. These perspective drawing genres are still popular, and some artists master their technique so successfully that it becomes hard to tell an oil painting or a pencil drawing from a photograph. Bored Panda collected some of the best examples of this cool art and made a stunning…

Oil on Linen 20" x 16"

A Korean artist has wowed the art world with paintings so realistic they look like photographs. Young-sung Kim, a 43-year-old artist now living in New York sells each piece for around £8,000.