$1,800
"Wormhole" by Patrick Nevins Oil painting of Gummy Worm & Space Background
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
Patrick Nevins (Charleston, SC, US based) "Wormhole" is an original, handmade oil painting in the Trompe' l'oeil style that depicts an orange and yellow worm attempting to burrow thr...
Oil, Board
$725
"Little Bang" by Patrick Nevins Oil painting of Lit Firecracker Space Background
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
Patrick Nevins (Charleston, SC, US based) "Little Bang" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a suspended, lit firecracker surrounded by space showing several galaxies.
Oil, Board
$1,650
"Butterfly Nebula 6" by Patrick Nevins Oil painting of Blue Butterfly in Space
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
Patrick Nevins (Charleston, SC, US based) "Butterfly Nebula" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a brilliant blue butterfly with stars as a backdrop.
Oil, Board
"Calcium" (2025) by Patrick Nevins, Oil On Board Shell Painting
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
Created by artist Patrick Nevins in 2025, “Calcium” is an original, handmade oil on board that forms part of his engaging Elements Series.
Oil, Board
"Cobalt" (2025) by Patrick Nevins, Oil on Board Trompe-l'œil Painting
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
Patrick Nevins’ Cobalt is a masterfully executed trompe-l'œil oil painting on board, measuring 6 x 6 inches (15.24 x 15.24 cm) and presented in a complementary 8.25 x 8.25-inch frame.
Oil, Board
"Rachel" Oil Painting
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
Patrick Nevin's (US based) "Rachel" is an oil painting that depicts a monochromatic feminine face in profile with a blank white background.
Oil, Panel
"Quoting Sagan" Oil Painting
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
Patrick Nevin's (US based) "Quoting Sagan" is an oil painting that depicts a human skull situated with books and letter blocks, and other various objects in a dark interior.
Oil, Panel
"Vanitas with Marine Corps Coin" Oil Painting
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
Patrick Nevin's (US based) "Vanitas with Marine Corps Coin" is an oil painting that depicts a human skull situated with an orange, a Marine Corps coin, and other various objects in a...
Oil, Panel
"Card Shark" - Insect Still Life, Oil Painting on Board
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
About the artist: Born and raised in Townsend, Massachusetts, Patrick has been drawing and sketching as far back as he can remember. Although always interested in art, it wasn't u...
Oil, Board
"The Silver Finch" - Still Life Oil Painting on Board
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
This painting was inspired by the little known but very talented artist Carel Fabritius who tragically died in the Delft gunpowder magazine explosion of 1654. His painting, "The Gold...
Oil, Board
Carpenter Bee
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
Carpenter Bee, 2020
Oil, Panel
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H 8 in W 8 in
"Kaleidoscope" by Patrick Nevins Oil painting of Yellow Butterfly with Gummies
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
Patrick Nevins (Charleston, SC, US based) "Kaleidoscope" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a brilliant yellow butterfly surrounded by a rainbow of six gummy butterfl...
Oil, Panel
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H 10 in W 8 in
"Dürer's Mantis" by Patrick Nevins Oil Painting, Praying Mantis, Praying Hands
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
Patrick Nevins (Charleston, SC, US based) "Dürer's Mantis" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a praying mantis perched upon praying hands.
Oil, Board
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H 16.25 in W 5.5 in
"Found" (2024) by Patrick Nevins, Original Oil Still-Life Painting on Panel
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
Patrick Nevins (Charleston, SC, US based) "Found" is an original, handmade oil still-life painting featuring a cicada , a wishbone, a shark tooth, and a conch shell placed in a line.
Oil, Wood
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H 6 in W 6 in
"Prime-Beary Colors" by Patrick Nevins Original Oil painting of Gummy Bears
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
Patrick Nevins (Charleston, SC, US based) "Prime-Beary Colors" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a three colorful gummy bears in primary colors.
Oil, Board
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H 12 in W 12 in
"Early Birds Get the Worm" by Patrick Nevins Oil Gummy Worm/Origami Birds
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
Patrick Nevins (Charleston, SC, US based) "Early Birds Get the Worm" is an original, handmade oil painting in the Trompe' l'oeil style that depicts an orange and yellow worm surround...
Oil, Board
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H 6 in W 6 in
"Helium" (2025) by Patrick Nevins, Contemporary Trompe-l'œil Oil Painting
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
Patrick Nevins’ "Helium" is a striking trompe-l'œil oil painting that plays with perception and dimensionality.
Oil, Board
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H 6 in W 6 in
"Cerium" (2025) by Patrick Nevins, Oil On Board Elements Series Painting
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
“Cerium” (2025) by Patrick Nevins is an original oil on board that forms part of the artist’s ongoing “Elements Series.”
Oil, Board
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H 6 in W 6 in
"Tungsten" (2025) by Patrick Nevins, Oil on Board from Elements Series
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
Created in 2025, “Tungsten” is part of Patrick Nevins’s ongoing Elements Series, in which he explores the beauty, significance, and material properties of chemical elements.
Oil, Board
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H 6 in W 6 in
"Arsenic" (2025) by Patrick Nevins, Oil On Board Realist Element Series Painting
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
Discover this captivating original painting by Patrick Nevins, titled Arsenic (2025), from his ongoing “Elements Series.”
Oil, Board
Shell Fish
Located in Denver, CO
"Shell Fish," is an original oil painting by Patrick Nevins. It is framed and ready-to-hang.
Oil, Board
"Candy Apple, " Oil Painting
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
Patrick Nevins' (US based) "Candy Apple" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a green and red gummy worm candy emerging from the green apple of René Magritte's "The Son...
Oil, Panel
"Trafalgar Bear, " Oil Painting
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
Patrick Nevins' (US based) "Trafalgar Bear" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a blue gummy bear and cast shadow on a red, yellow, white and blue background that is r...
Oil, Panel
Keystone
Located in Denver, CO
Patrick Nevin's "Keystone" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a realistic still life of a skeleton key hovering above a grey rock as they float on a blue surface.
Oil, Board
"Pair of Scarabs" - Insect Still Life, Oil Painting on Board
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
About the artist: Born and raised in Townsend, Massachusetts, Patrick has been drawing and sketching as far back as he can remember. Although always interested in art, it wasn't u...
Oil, Board
Playtime is Over
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
Playtime is Over, 2021
Oil, Panel
Card Shark
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
Playing Cards with vibrant blue
Oil, Panel
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H 6 in W 6 in
"Violet Cicada" (2024) by Patrick Nevins, Original Oil Painting on Panel
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
Patrick Nevins (Charleston, SC, US based) "Violet Cicada" is an original, handmade oil still-life painting featuring a cicada on a violet background with cicadas drawings.
Oil, Board
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H 6 in W 5 in
"Penny For Your Thoughts" (2024) by Patrick Nevins Oil Painting on Panel
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
Patrick Nevins (Charleston, SC, US based) "Penny For Your Thoughts" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts the statue "The Thinker with a penny in front of it.
Oil, Panel
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H 8 in W 6 in
"Smells Fishy" by Patrick Nevins Original Oil painting of Red Gummy Fish
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
Patrick Nevins (Charleston, SC, US based) "Smells Fishy" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a suspended clothespin gripping a red gummy fish.
Metal
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H 6 in W 6 in
"Einsteinium" (2025) by Patrick Nevins, Oil on Board 3D Trompe-l'œil Portrait
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
Patrick Nevins’ "Einsteinium" is a striking 3D trompe-l'œil oil painting that masterfully blends realism with sculptural illusion.
Oil, Board
"Fresh Bait" Oil Painting
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
Patrick Nevin's (US based) "Fresh Bait" is an oil painting that depicts a fishing boat surrounded by open ocean and sharks with a yellow gummy worm to tempt them.
Oil, Panel
"Four Bears" Oil Painting
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
Patrick Nevin's (US based) "Four Bears" is an oil painting that depicts a lively fall setting of a forest with turning leaves with one green gummy bear juxtaposed over it.
Oil, Panel
"Mother and Child" Oil Painting
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
Patrick Nevin's (US based) "Mother and Child" is an oil painting that depicts a colonial mother in an interior setting holding a yellow sour patch kid candy as she would a child.
Oil, Panel
"Bear Naked, " Oil Painting
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
Patrick Nevins' (US based) "Bear Naked" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a red gummy bear candy covering the nude chest of Sandro Botticelli's Venus as she emerges ...
Oil, Panel
"Fatal Attraction, " Oil Painting
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
Patrick Nevins' (US based) "Fatal Attraction" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a red Swedish fish candy and a fish lure facing each other as they sit on a green cha...
Oil, Panel
"Sugar High, " Oil Painting
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
Patrick Nevins' (US based) "Sugar High" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a blue and red gummy worm and cast shadow being carried off for dinner by a blue and yellow...
Oil, Panel
"Consequences, " Oil Painting
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
Patrick Nevins' (US based) "Consequences" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a blue sour patch kid candy and cast shadow juxtaposed with a depiction of "The Kiss" by ...
Oil, Panel
"Catch of the Day, " Oil Painting
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
Patrick Nevins' (US based) "Catch of the Day" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a red Swedish fish candy caught in the beak of a Great Blue Heron with a tropical, gr...
Oil, Panel
"Constituents" Oil Painting
By Patrick Nevins
Located in Denver, CO
Patrick Nevin's (US based) "Constituents" is an oil painting that depicts a red, white, and blue Bullseye with a black sheep in its center, riddled with holes, torn to reveal a the b...
Oil, Panel
Figurative art, as opposed to abstract art, retains features from the observable world in its representational depictions of subject matter. Most commonly, figurative paintings reference and explore the human body, but they can also include landscapes, architecture, plants and animals — all portrayed with realism.
While the oldest figurative art dates back tens of thousands of years to cave wall paintings, figurative works made from observation became especially prominent in the early Renaissance. Artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and other Renaissance masters created naturalistic representations of their subjects.
Pablo Picasso is lauded for laying the foundation for modern figurative art in the 1920s. Although abstracted, this work held a strong connection to representing people and other subjects. Other famous figurative artists include Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. Figurative art in the 20th century would span such diverse genres as Expressionism, Pop art and Surrealism.
Today, a number of figural artists — such as Sedrick Huckaby, Daisy Patton and Eileen Cooper — are making art that uses the human body as its subject.
Because figurative art represents subjects from the real world, natural colors are common in these paintings. A piece of figurative art can be an exciting starting point for setting a tone and creating a color palette in a room.
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