Artists in our list:
- James Wempe – Mixed medium
- Salavat Fidai – Miniatures on seeds and matchstick boxes
- Amado Gonzalez – Oil paintings
- Carlo Salomoni – Surrealism, Oil paints
- Chris Breier – Acrylic and Watercolor, iPad
- Corné Akkers – Oil, Dry pastel and Graphite pencil
- Olaf Sigurdsson – Acrylic and Oil paintings, Viking Art
- Georgi Terziev – Watercolor Painting
- Sebastian Caltabiano – Pastels and Pastel Pencils
- Jovica Kostic – Watercolor, Ink, Pencil, Pastel
- Ayad Fadel – Realism
- Rusalena Nikolova – Oil Paintings
- Jurga Ryan – Watercolor and Oil
- Alejandro Fajardo – Oil Paintings
- Charles A. Dey – Portraits and Drawings
- Claire Bartlett – Watercolor paintings, Graphite sketches
- Araceli Requena – Mixed medium paintings
- Karin Kiessling – Pastel and Charcoal Portraits
- Jack Lepper – Acrylic, Watercolor, Charcoal
- Patrick McGovern – Watercolor and Acrylic
- Mark Temlett – Ink and Pastels
- Richard Hahn – Watercolor
- Lilla Schuch – Watercolor
- Luis Alfonso Mur – Acrylic
- Cliff Agba – Mixed Medium
- Vladimir Tuporshin – Watercolors
- Jevgenijs Maksimovs (Jev Maks) – Acrylic, Oil, Watercolours
- Sergio Maria Dos Santos – Paintings
- Tony Kenyon – Mixed Medium
- Ruth Enciso – Mixed Medium
- Satyajit Chanda – Mixed Medium
- Vicki A. Wonderlin Morlan – Mixed Medium
- Jarka Fox – Mixed Medium
- Colin Chadwick – Oil paintings
- Sheila Hetherington – Oil Paintings
- Orlando Rafael Dos Santos – Mixed medium paintings and drawings
- Emma Underwood – Watercolor paintings
- José Castro Dopico – Paintings
- Goh Shu Laang – Watercolor paintings
- Andrews Ayivor – Mixed medium paintings
- Monica Stoycheva – Monique Valery – Paintings and icons
- Xane Asiamah – Realistic drawings and colorful paintings
- Ramya Sadasivam – Oil paintings
- Daisy Klock – Oil paintings
- Oláyinka ”Atunbi” Oderinde – Mixed medium paintings
- Rhoselyn Garino – Acrylic on canvas
- Paolo Avanzi – Distorted artworks
- Jenna Durrant – Acyric paintings
- Andrea Benetti – Paintings
- Riccardo Scavo – Paintings
Did you know?
Photo: Pedro Saura, SWNS.com
The oldest paintings (rock art) in the world are 40 000 years old and are discovered in the El Castillo cave in Cantabria, Spain.
It’s considered that the cave paintings are made for communication purposes or have religious or ceremonial meaning. Humans are represented mainly by images of hands, mostly hand stencils made by blowing pigment on a hand held to the wall. The wild animals are also a common subject and are remarkably similar around the world – bison, horses, aurochs, and deer. Pigments used include red and yellow ochre, hematite, manganese oxide and charcoal.
35,000 years old are the earliest known cave paintings of animals at Maros on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. (Photo by Maxime Aubert, National Geographic)
For Europe the oldest figurative paintings are found in the Chauvet Cave in France, 30 000 BCE (Photo by HTO, via Wikimedia Commons) , and in the Coliboaia Cave in Romania (32 000 years old).
Other examples of this early art are the cave paintings of bulls in Altamira, Spain (10 000 BCE) and the Laas Geel complex in Somalia (5 000 years old).
Photo by Abdullah Geelah, Wikipedia
