It's been a long time since I posted anything new, so here's a lot of pictures I found on the computer of more recent paintings. I'll try to put up some demo/ progress pictures of the next couple.

Free painting demonstrations in oil and acrylic
by Brian Oliver

www.BrianOliverFineArt.com

Finished the Easel and Painting

I just finished building this new studio easel and have been very pleased. It does everything except paint for me. Here's a picture of it, not very flattering on my behalf, and I included a close up of the painting which you can follow along with on my demonstrations page.

Free painting demonstrations in oil and acrylic
by Brian Oliver

www.BrianOliverFineArt.com

New Seascapes

Here are some things I've been working on over the past week.

First here is 12 x 16 in oil

This one is a 16 x 20 in oil. This being a particularly special work since it is of one of my favorite spots in laguna beach

















Free painting demonstrations in oil and acrylic
by Brian Oliver

www.BrianOliverFineArt.com

New acrylics

So Here's what I've been up to the last couple of days, all of it in acrylic.

The second one I experimented with a textured canvas by gessoing sand onto the canvas, it had a very neat little effect I think. Next time I might try tinting the gesso so that from an angle the painting will change colors.





Free painting demonstrations in oil and acrylic
by Brian Oliver

www.BrianOliverFineArt.com

And the Oils are Out

Yep, took out the good old oil paints again, in search of some nice flavors, one a continuation in my fascination with extremely dark and dramatic sunrises. Enjoy!

View near San Clemente Pier

Continuation in the sunrises

Free painting demonstrations in oil and acrylic
by Brian Oliver

www.BrianOliverFineArt.com

Alright, the oils were messy today but that alright. I got some good stuff out of the working time and will have a video up on youtube soon so definitely check out my stuff! The videos can be seen from my site. Here's a sampling.

Free painting demonstrations in oil and acrylic
by Brian Oliver

www.BrianOliverFineArt.com

New Oils

I mentioned the new oil paintings I had done, and yes finally snapped some pictures. One didn't quite seem finished and the other was not lit enough to be photographed and unfortunately the video I planned for it came out too poor to be useful. Anyways here are some hibiscus.

I also got in a slightly larger work in acrylic of the countryside with some sheep grazing lazily.

Free painting demonstrations in oil and acrylic
by Brian Oliver

www.BrianOliverFineArt.com

Breaking out the oils

This past week has been realy exciting since i finally cleaned up my old buckets of solvent and bought a new jar of Liquin for my oils. The only problem was they had been neglected so long the caps were pretty hard to get off since some oil cured in the threads. That aside, it was great to dip back into that medium and see I could still make it work. I got 2 paintings done in a pretty short time since they were so small, and will be posting a video demo in oils pretty soon. I'm still gathering my ideas for the subject but I'm leaning towards some sun rays in the woods and perhaps a floral and a seascape (my favorite). Check here for images and also see my youtube and site.


Free painting demonstrations in oil and acrylic

by Brian Oliver

www.BrianOliverFineArt.com

Website Launch and Images

My new website has launched finally!!

It took a lot of hard work but is up and running and probably not in need of much more polishing

Check it out at www.BrianOliverFineArt.com

Now for the usual stuff, here are a few images

and don't forget that I have a ton of free videos on www.youtube.com/bripainter.

Weekend's Work

This weekend I did some experimenting with canvasses primed with black gesso in the final coat. The results were pretty good for my liking, but the camera unfortunately doesn't get along too well with the dark areas and the flash istorted the image pretty bad. Nonetheless you can see wht I was going for. The foreground rocks look so much better in real life it's too bad it didn't translate here.

I can't remember which I got done with first but below is the other and both really capture that morning anticipation when everything is still very quiet and still.

Free Acrylic Videos

Just wanted to say I do post videos pretty frequently of my work on youtube. The paintings are all real time, no super speed stuff, but there usually isn't sound. The real problem with sound is the size of files and it would make editing extremely hard. Plus who really wants to hear me talk and mumble? I'll answer any questions about brushes, colors, techniques and anything else if people leave a comment. I migh try to type up some explanations on this blog. Well, have a good one, I just finished up some stuff to post after I take pictures.

Over there are some windchimes in my back yard. I've got lots of seascapes to show but I want to show that there are other things too!

Some follow up images

Here are a few more pics! Enjoy

For starters

I've been painting for a couple years now and pretty frequently. I have a ton of old stuff and constant new ideas some of which i paint over so the only thing left of those is a picture or video. I think I'm going to try and post something new at least once a week and sometimes the videos of that but we'll see.

So far these are some paintings that I've enjoyed doing. Some are quite old and really not that good but I think it helps to show where it all started from and change and all that good stuff.

Clearly, I'm a huge fan of beach paintings and waves and the surf. It's got a lot to do with the whole living in California thing, but I also really love landscapes and there is plenty to paint for that too!