Kelly Birkenruth

"Citrusy Smiles, " Oil painting

Raymond Bonilla's "Together" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a car trunk full of groceries. About the Artist: Raymond Bonilla is a nati...

Raymond Bonilla's "Recharge" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a quiet scene of plants growing in a garden with warm orange afternoon light. About the Artist: Raymond Bonilla is a nationally recognized illustrator and fine artist in Buffalo, NY. Raymond graduated from the State University in New York at Fredonia in 2005 with a degree in New Media and Illustration. He continued his studies at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco where he completed his Masters of Fine Art in 2009. He was awarded Best in Show in the Great Lakes Emerging Artist Competition, was a finalist in the Artists Magazine Annual Art Competition, has been awarded Gold Medals in advertising from both Society of Illustrators of New York and Los Angeles, and juried into the Communication Arts Illustration Annual. He currently lives in Buffalo, New York where he spends his time painting and teaching part-time at SmART School and Visual Arts Passage. He is represented by Principle Gallery in Alexandria, VA, Abend Gallery...

Shelli Langdale's "Love and Grief" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a yellow dandelion and blue cloud-like shapes. Artist Bio: Shelli Langdale is an oil painter living and painting in Chattanooga, TN. U.S.A. She has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science...

Linda Tracey Brandon's (US based) "Gardenia on a Blue Table" is an oil painting that depicts a bouquet of blooming White Gardenias with leaves sit...

Raymond Bonilla's (US based) "New Page" is an oil painting that depicts an dense growth of grasses and purple and blue hued flowers with a sliver of sunlight highlighting the deep sh...

Raymond Bonilla's (US based) "Old Office" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a quiet domestic interior where a patterned rug and a coffee table with plants...

Cornelis le Mair (Netherlands, Eindhoven, July 3rd 1944) is a Dutch painter. This Classic painter is famous because of his 17th century paintings. You can see him in his house on o...

This painting is measured without frame. With frame it measures 87 x 76 cm Cornelis le Mair (Netherlands, Eindhoven, July 3rd 1944) is a Dutch painter. This Classic painter is fam...

Cornelis le Mair (Netherlands, Eindhoven, July 3rd 1944) is a Dutch painter. This Classic painter is famous because of his 17th century paintings. You can see him in his house on o...

Jason Walker's (CAN based) "Donut Pile" is an oil painting that depicts a pile of varied glazed and powdered donuts all sitting together in the dark.

Mia Bergeron's (US based) "Compelling" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a birthday cake with white and blue frosting on a white table surrounded with white, green, ...

During his successful career as a goldsmith the desire to paint grew on Dutch artist René Smoorenburg (1954). The attention to detail, which was of great importance in his work as a goldsmith, proved of great value in painting his realistic still life’s. In "Cherries in a Strainer" the artist's attention to fine detail is traceable in the way he painted the cherries. All the fine details create an effect of trompe-l'oeil, the painting is deceptive realistic. This painting depicts a very rich harvest of cherries. They're harvested during summer and therefore you can almost feel the happiness of a long and warm, carefree summer in this painting. This feeling lasts forever, thanks to Smoorenburgs incredible talent. His work stands in the long tradition of Dutch still life painting, originated in the seventeenth century, with its highly refined and meticulously executed depiction of reality. His work is in the spirit of many of those great works but retains its own distinctive style. Although René Smoorenburg works at a few paintings at the same time, the time it takes him to finish one individual painting amounts six months. Because of his very detailed style of painting, this time span is necessary to complete the work with a lot of patience and endurance. In contrast to the masters of the Golden Age, he chooses to emphasize the vulnerability, fragility and imperfection of everyday objects in his still life’s. According to René Smoorenburg, beauty is not perfection, but in the trace of the past and the evidence of enduring ravages of time. René Smoorenburg finds his sources of inspiration at antique fairs...