American Realist Paintings
2010s American Realist Paintings
Linen, Oil
2010s American Realist Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
Two geese turn to regard the viewer along the grassy bank of a quiet lake. "Growing up with my older sister, my mom would always dress us in the exact same clothes," shares Jo Galang. "With the same haircut and similar looks, people would always mistake us for twins since we were almost the same size and height. It was fun back then but as we grew up, we each evolved into our own distinct personalities."
About the Artist
Artist Jo Galang expresses a quiet nostalgia in her airy interpretations of the landscapes and waterways of the Pacific Northwest. Her soft oil paintings capture the meditative sounds of rivers and waterfalls flowing past her easel. During the summer, she spends as much time as possible outside creating plein air sketches and studying the light on the landscape. As a young art student in the Philippines, Jo was privileged to study with the renowned painter Danilo Dalena, who she says encouraged her to be the artist she is today. "I believe my art looks simple enough that people have no idea how much time I have spent working on it," she says. When she is not painting, Jo and her husband enjoy taking road trips, playing cards and finding creative ways to spend time with their granddaughter.
Words that describe this painting: animals, birds, Canada geese, geese, lake, landscape, nature, summer, water, waterfowl, grass, classical, wildlife, animals, classical, realism, representational, oil painting, green
Two Peas in a Pod...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Linen, Oil, Canvas
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
In this piece, artist Laura Browning explores the subtle shifts between light reflecting on top of the water's surface, and the ...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
Artist Comments
Colorado summer evening. A man walks his dog as storm clouds clear overhead. Warm light from the left reflects off of the many wet surfaces. Classical realism...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Washington Square Park on a summer evening. Several pairs of figures sit, absorbed in their phones, books and computers. Warm, pinkish orange light illuminate...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
Artist Jesse Aldana paints a dreamy seascape with an accidental guest caught swimming in the background. "At a certain time of year, at a certain time of day,...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Oil
2010s American Realist Paintings
Oil, Panel
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1940s American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
Artist Emil Morhardt displays an impressionist portrait of three brown pelicans. The birds sun themselves in the Sea of Cortez against a subtle greenish-blue late afternoon sky. "I hadn't thought about pelicans having a 3D vision like hawks until I was looking over my photos and saw one of the birds staring straight at me," shares Emil. He references his photographs from a National Geographic Zodiac that the pelicans seemed curious about, allowing very close viewing.
About the Artist
Emil Morhardt is an acrylic painter from Santa Barbara, California who expresses his passion for birds through realistic acrylic paintings. He paints at home in a studio room that has large windows and a north-facing view of the mountains. He observes the animals from this window, watching roadrunners, foxes, bobcats, deer, and coyote run by. Surrounded by this wildlife, Emil paints bird portraits reminiscent of those by artist John James Audubon. He bases his paintings off hundreds of photographs he takes of birds in the wild and at wildlife recovery centers. Emil captures the freedom and inquisitiveness that birds display in the natural world. Before painting birds, he painted landscapes of San Francisco and the Eastern Sierra. Emil was raised in the high desert of California and learned to paint from his father, who was one of the early California watercolorists...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
Artist Guigen Zha paints a white horse wading along blooming lotuses in realistic detail. It stands quietly in the shallow waters as the moonlight dreamily glows on the pond. "It seems to have forgotten where it came from and where it is going," says Guigen. He conveys the message of loneliness being a different kind of beauty.
About the Artist
From cross-cultural life experiences, artist Guigen Zha presents conceptual compositions of traditional Chinese art...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Oil
2010s American Realist Paintings
Oil, Panel
Artist Comments
A realistic cityscape in the early morning unfolds in artist Nick Savides' work. He pictures Lafayette Street, just north of East Houston, in NoHo without the...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Oil
2010s American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s American Realist Paintings
Linen, Oil
2010s American Realist Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
"Togetherness is a wonderful place to be, and what better reflects a bond of love," says artist Jeff Fleming. He displays a touching portrait of a golden retriever mom affectionately posing with her puppy. Jeff begins with a pencil sketch and applies paint with his fingers, brushes, and string. He drizzles paint in random strokes to create an energetic composition brimming with splashes of color.
About the Artist
Artist Jeff Fleming uses fingerpainting to create exuberant portraits of dogs. Growing up in Southern California, Jeff was first introduced to fingerpainting in kindergarten. He painted through high school and college and won several art awards, including Best of Show in a city wide student competition. After graduating with a degree in journalism and advertising, he went to work as an art director. For the next 40 years, he created print, radio and television ads for a number of top agencies. "After retiring in 2019, the clouds of stress and pressure cleared and allowed me to set my creative energy free," says Jeff. He began developing new techniques focused on the excitement and energy of painting. Today, he uses a variety of methods and tools, including fingerpainting wearing nitrile gloves...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s American Realist Paintings
Oil, Panel
Early 2000s American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 2000s American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
Looking towards the sun and realistically painting the natural elements as the eye perceives them is a challenge. Kent Sullivan enjoys bringing the appearance of that sun-washed eye-squinting moment. He found Charleston Harbor...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
"This painting was inspired by the dramatic lighting and shadows receding into West 14th Street at sunset," says artist Nick Savid...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Ink
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Linen, Oil
Early 2000s American Realist Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Linen, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Ink
Artist Comments
When I walk along Santa Barbara beaches in winter, Marbled Godwits are the most common bird, often seen in herds, as in thi...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
Provocative hyperrealist oil painting created with breathtaking detail. Artist David Shepherd explains that he used the glass surface in this piece as a light...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Oil
2010s American Realist Paintings
Oil, Panel
2010s American Realist Paintings
Oil
2010s American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1940s American Realist Paintings
Oil, Board
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Linen, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Wood
2010s American Realist Paintings
Oil Pastel
Early 2000s American Realist Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Oil
2010s American Realist Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s American Realist Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
2010s American Realist Paintings
Linen, Oil
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