I recently started oil painting. Still a complete beginner, and I've never been particularly good at drawing stuff, but I am having fun and am finding it easier than drawing.

I started painting a simple green landscape with clouds and it looks alright so far! Learning how to keep things looking natural is a challenge, I know that clouds usually form in layers but getting that onto the painting without making everything look flat is a little more difficult than it seems. But still fun.

Anyone else out there painting? Share your work!

Recently I spent a year or so going to a weekly art studio for drawing & painting lessons, I hugely enjoyed it. I was better at drawing than painting if I'm honest, but that was probably more to do with the medium than the process. I feel I would fare better with oils.

NSFW concerns prevent me from sharing work

Nixer is another one who has just recently started painting.

Me; I have trouble painting a patio bench.

I can draw stick people but that's about it.

I can paint with words... But a brush? Nope.

I've gotten back into oil painting after many years.

Two paintings I posted earlier in the year. I've ben painting wildlife and landscapes since then.

A landscape and a seascape.

I have a lot more, but this is my most recent. Bad picture of it but you get the idea.

These are gorgeous! I used to do some water color and pastel back in the day... Been a long long time though!

Thanks. I posted them on Fine Art America to see if i can sell something. Opened an account on Etsy and I'm going to try there, too. I'd love to make some money doing it. And if anyone you guys know wants a painting done, pm me. I can paint just about anything.

Pooch, those are seriously good paintings!

Thanks. I went to the School Of Visual Arts in New York City thinking I was going to become a illustrator. But life doesn't always turn out the way you expect it to.

You have some great work there, Pooch!

Awesome paintings Pooch.

I definitely wouldn't want to be in that destroyer though.
http://SimHQ.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/download/Number/6073/filename/Halseys%20Typhoon%20(3).jpg


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Thanks, again. I may have exaggerated the wave a bit, but probably not by much. For it to have capsized a Navy destroyer it must have ben a monster.

I wasn't thinking along the lines of your rendition being an exaggeration since I know three destroyers were lost in that typhoon. I thought it probably reflected the event fairly well. I just know I wouldn't want to have been on one of them that were lost or the one in your painting.


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Very nice paintings Pooch! Can I ask, how did you learn to do that?

I really enjoy painting but have trouble with getting my solid colors down on the canvas smoothly, there's a lot of bleed-through, I can see the brush strokes easily and the white canvas or liquid white I put down on the first layer.

Absolutely no art school experience here, and this is my first time ever painting, I've always been into photography so this is a very new kind of approach for me. Any advice would be appreciated!

Merry Christmas!

VF-9, I don't remember ever learning how to do it. I've been an artist all of my life. Was painting and drawing since I was a little kid. I'm glad you like them. So.....where are yours?

Very nice Pooch, I love to see art especially as it is something I cannot do myself, heh I cannot see a straight line never mind draw one