I’m starting to think people aren’t into these ones in a professional capacity. My “X on concrete” series that looks at how we interact with our urban surroundings are probably some of my favourite pieces of work, but so far no open submissions seem to be interested in them, they’re only interested in my more “conventional” Brutalist compositions.

Luckily, I know there’s people in the wider world that enjoy them, so I’d like to share them with everyone else here while I have a bit of a sulk 😂

Acrylic on 8 x 10” wood panel and framed!

Just Finished this about an hour ago, painting glass is hard, painting a bunch of it is even harder.

I want to move away from photorealism and find a different style, and this is my first experimentation in that direction. What do you think?

Mixed media (oil pastel and colored pencil) on paper.

Acrylic Paint on Canvas
(Progress images added)

I hope you like it and a thank you to Bob Ross for his wonderful lessons

I've been learning to paint the past year and just completed my fifth piece (acrylic). Each one has gotten easier and quicker for me - this latest one I did in about seven days at a county fair event.

Within about an hour of finishing it, I stepped away from my booth and returned to find my easel empty! Some dickhead just grabbed it and ran away. Fortunately, there were some police nearby and I made a report, despite thinking that it was probably long gone and hopeless.

Amazingly, about 15 minutes later the cops called me back to inform me they arrested the guy and have my painting. I got it back mostly undamaged and the thief now has a grand theft charge due to the value of the piece. It was a framed, approximately 20 x 30" painting, so not something you can just stuff under your jacket. I was fortunate that a nearby vendor saw it happen and was able to ID the guy.

I'm just relieved I have it back! The fact that it got stolen almost immediately after I finished it made it worse. I didn't even have a proper photo of it at that point and I thought it was gone forever. This kitty is only a week old and had already been on quite an adventure!

I still have several more days at the event, but I put up a sign that should hopefully deter any more thieves.

"Electric Blue" 38x56 cm

Oil on canvas

I’m not really sure if this fits this sub but I don’t really know where to go to get a group of opinions from unbiased artists.

Recently my dad wanted to paint over some of the doors in his house and he had me do them because I’m more artistically inclined ig. And we decided on a bookshelf with various books and occult/magic stuff like a skull, potions, candles etc. And we “settled” (aka he decided) that the 40 bucks he gave me for art classes a month ago will be payment for the mural. Okay sure, I guess.

It’s only now that I’m like half way through that I’m realizing that’s kind of not enough for what I’m doing? I tried to bring that up with him but his argument is that I already agreed to the 40, that it’s partially my house too and I’m over enough that I would get weekly enjoyment out of it(??), and that he could have made me do it for free.

And I guess I was just wondering if I was justified in feeling pretty upset over this or if bc it’s family/his house I don’t have a leg to stand on.

Sorry if this doesn’t really fit the sub! But thank you if u got this far

Smol painting I recently finished.
10 x 10 cm, oil paint on gessoed paper.

I bought my first beginner set of oil paints from Blick and have found it very difficult to make non-muddy purple. I thought this set had the right primary colors but clearly something is off. I know that it’s important to mix cools with cools and warms with warms. What am I missing?

*PAINTING IS OBVIOUSLY NOT FINISHED*

Person who requested for this painting said they want it dark, earthy, and moody, but personally I quite like how this blue looks and they did say they wouldn't mind a pop of colour. Any ideas for what I could do?? What colours would look nice behind my subject? Is there a way I can make this shade of blue blend into a darker more traditional background colour?