My oil painting Lore of neon dogs made it to the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize finals (Emerging Artist category)

Piece measures 16 by 20 inches. Oil on handmade panel. Sorry about the poor image quality on the second slide.

Oil study of a man

Oils and some cold wax on mdf board; approx 12x9 inches. This was painted mainly with a small palette knife. Small amounts of cold wax (Gamblin's) were added to the paint mixtures and I found applying the colour for the flowers to be rather addictive. It was painted about seven years ago and I have a question. The surface of the painting appears to still be vulnerable; I have already accidentally scratched it lightly during a recent room-renovation/moving stuff around; and it is possible to mark it with a finger-nail. The painted-surface is dry, but of course not varnished because of the wax. Anyone else using cold wax with oilpaint? should the work really be under glass, or is it more the "thing" to simply frame it without glass just like any other oil?

I got up at 4am and got this huge first layer knocked out. WIP. 24x60” oil on custom linen panel.

Original photo reference being loosely followed is by Neil Burnell. I expanded the scene and changed the atmosphere.

Any suggestions for tackling skin tones with a colorful sunset?

(Still a WIP) I’m new to oil - usually watercolour occasionally acrylic in my studies. I’m playing around with bold colours to prime but struggling to make the main subject stand out enough with it currently due to limited palette. Do I start added another colour to figure to play with tone or continue to work on pushing the background back? Thanks!

This one was kind of fun to do, I do love a dark theme. Was supposed to be a creepy child, but ended up looking more like a old creepy dude. I think i should have made the tie and ears bigger, and rounded out the jaw.

I saw this parked scooter while walking around downtown Calgary last month and I knew I had to paint it. I loved the vivid blue color and especially the Royal Air Force-esque target symbol on this Vespa's top case.