Amazing Flower Paintings By Leonid Afremov

Leonid Afremov, is a famous Belarusian painter who created a wonderful language in painting with his pallette-knife rather than with a brush. He took his graduation from Vitebsk Art School. He is very much interested to portrait unique land scapes, city scapes and figures through his paintings.

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"I tried different techniques during my career, but I especially fell in love with painting with oil and pallette-knife. Every artwork is the result of long painting process; every canvas is born during the creative search; every painting is full of my inner world. Each of my paintings brings different mood, colors and emotions. I love to express the beauty, harmony and spirit of this world in my paintings. My heart is completely open to art. Thus, I enjoy creating inspired and beautiful paintings from the bottom of my soul. Each of my artworks reflects my feelings, sensitivity, passion, and the music from my soul. True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depresshis studio was broken into and vandalised."

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African Art

One may find African art primitive and old, but see the usage of colors, they are rich and satisfying. African art resembles closely with the mural art forms. Like in mural paintings the objects used for coloring are mostly from the nature. These art forms are age old and carry a tradition of its own.

Cool Paintings

The artist is able to provide life to these beautiful paintings.  The landscapes are done with much details and colors are extra ordinary. The skill of the artist is so much so that his works resembles photographs of the plots he has drawn.

Awesome Oil Paintings

Painting is  a method expressing thoughts and imaginations of a person on a canvas. Oil painting is one of the most difficult methods among various forms of paintings. It is supposed that during the mediterranean civilization the Roman , Greek or Egyptians have extensively used mixtures of encaustic , minerals, vegetable oil for painting. But during the 15 th century this technique was lost and got replaced by oil painting. According to Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) the technique of oil painting, was invented or re-invented in Europe around 1410 by Jan van Eyck (1390 -1441). The master piece of Van Eyck, "The wedding portrait of Giovanni Arnolfi and his wife" (supposed to be painted in 1434) is the first creation in this type . Later the great painters like Leonardo da Vinci, Giorgione, Titian improved the method of painting and now it become a challenging medium to master.

Quick drying oil is suitable for this painting. When we consider oil painting the advantage is that the corrections and changes can be made easily. Unwanted colors can be scraped over and over again without damaging the canvas. Here are some beautiful oil paintings.