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Today’s art works and paintings are of Charles Chaplin who was a French academic painter and engraver. He was born in 1825 and lived on this planet till 1891. He was half British and half French, in the year 1886, he became a naturalized Frenchman, and however he worked in France all his life. From…

Every art lover who hails from India knows about Raja Ravi Varma and I am no exception. He is not only famous in India but also all around the globe. He was an 18 the Century Indian Traditional painter from the princely state of Travancore which is presently in Kerala. He was born in April …

I have seen many figurative painters from all around the world but today I am going to share some of the very beautiful paintings by painter Cesar Santos . From the very first look of his paintings, I fell in love with his art works. I guess he has such an immense talent and his paintings sin…

I have already shared many of the figurative painters , their art works and paintings at my fine art blog. Today the artist whose work I am going to share is Kyle Stuckey. He was born in New Hampshire. This American painter started taking his formal art education at the young age of 18 by stu…

Hi friends! Today I will be sharing egg tempera paintings by Fred Wessel who is a professor of printmaking at the Hartford Art School at University of Hartford in Connecticut. He teaches tempera painting, lithography and drawing.  Fred has done his BFA at Syracuse University in New York an…

Hello friends J I am back again with yet another talented painters art works and he is none other than Edwin Herde. He is from America and it’s better to say that he is an American figurative painter and an illustrator . Lets first come to his biography: Edwin Herde was born in 1951 in Pen…

I truly loved these beautiful figurative art works by L.W. Howard.  This artist hails from America and was born in 1884 and was much known for figurative styles. Howard loved to draw female figurative paintings few of which I am sharing here.

Fongwei Liu is a painter from China and is currently living in San Francisco bay area. He completed his graduation from China and later pursued his MFA from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. At present Fongwei is working as an art instructor at a school. Have a look at Fongwei Liu a…

There are few painters or say artists in the world whose work speaks for them! And Arthur Sarnoff is no exception to it. I was giggling over the internet and found these amazing and amusing vintage pin up paintings which I couldn't resist sharing at this fine art blog. So here I am sharing…

Helene Knoop was born in 1979 in Norway. She is one of Norway’s foremost figurative painters . Currently she is living and working in Oslo. Knoop calls herself a”Kitsch-painter,” and for her good Kitsch involves pathos, poetry, drama and sincerity—all communicated through the mastery of craf…

Pierre Auguste was born in France and was very much in love with female figures and loved to paint and draw female figures. Thus most of his art subjects ended up as female. Many times his art subject i.e. the woman was used to be his friend, relative or his lover.

Laurent Botella is inspired by many Italian great masters and loves to draw figurative, impressionist sketches. He uses vivid color with natural inspiring compositions in a very structured way and beautifully uses the combination of light and shadow to highlight the subject.

Leon Kroll was born in 1884 and was and American painter and lithographer who was a well known artist of his time. Life Magazine described him as "the dean of U.S. nude painters ". Leon Kroll was born into a musical family on lower Second Avenue in New York City, Kroll's father was a …

Christophe Vacher is a 2-time Emmy Award winner and Annie Award Nominee French artist who has provided Backgrounds, Visual Development and Art Direction for Disney, Dreamworks, Universal Studios and the film industry since 1989. He worked in many small animation studios before joining Disney'…

Gustave Jean Jacquet was an academic classical painting artist (1846-1909), he was born in 1846 on 25the May in Paris. He was known as a pupil of Bouguereau and he debuted at the Paris Salon in 1865 and exhibited under “The Reverie”, this exhibition showed that he was very much similar to his …

Dick Bobnick has been drawing and painting for nearly forty years and today is a renowned nationally published illustrator and portrait artist.    He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Minnesota and, upon graduation with an impressive illustration portfolio, was…

I really loved these beautiful and glamorous paintings by Tom Lovell, Raipun and Hamish Blakely. All these paintings are really inspirational and the way the painter has used the brush strokes is really commendable. Let’s find out what the painter has to say:

Whenever anyone see the beautiful figurative paintings made by Francisco Sanchis Cortes , that person gets mesmerized and fell deep into the beauty of all the paintings made by this very talented artist . Francisco Sanchis is from Spain and loves to express the beauty and thoughts of mind via pa…

Miriam Bricks was born in 1957 in Wroclaw, Poland . She is a Polish Born American Painter because she was raised in The United States in New York. She got graduated from the School of Art and Design there. She specializes in drawing and figurative art works.

This time I am going to share beautiful figurative paintings by Chen Hongqing. This talented painter was born in Inner Mongolia and studied oil painting at the China Academy of Fine Arts from 1984 to 1988. When he got graduated, he started teaching at the middle school of the same Fine Art …