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"Real" Life Artwork (No Photography)

Real Life Art - Paintings, Sketches, Drawings, etc.

Featured Work

"A Man of the Land" by Lynda Robinson

Pastel on Sanded Paper (Burgundy Colourfix) 35cm x 50cm A portrait of a ‘true blue’ Aussie! (He also happens to be my husband, Peter)! I particularly enjoyed the colours in the ‘Drizabone’ coat, and the light and shade on the face. Top 10 of the ‘Sexiest Man Alive’ Challenge (January 2009) in the 1 on 1: The Fine Art of Portraiture group / Featured in the ‘Accentuate the Eyes’ group – January 2009 / Featured in the ‘Mature Men’ group – March 2009 / One of the 50 Finalists in the Australian Guild of Realist Artists ‘Australia At Large’ art competition, and ‘Commended’ – May 2009 / Finished in the Top 10 of the Portrait Challenge in the Contemporary Pastel Painters group – May 2009 / Finished in the Top 10 of the ‘Art Inspired by the one you Love’ challenge in the Inspired Art group – July 2009 / Featured in the Australia! You’re Standing in it! group – June 2009 / Featured in Buyers Club – August 2009 / 2nd Place in the ‘Lost in Thought’ challenge in the Buyer’s Club / Top 10 in the Portrait of the One you Love challenge in the Real Life Art group – November 2009
Innoncence..... by Stephie Butler

Pure Watercolour / Arches 140lb / W/N Paints / 14×10in I recently renamed this painting Innocence… I captured this photo of my grandson Isi, picking buttercups in the garden, He stood studying it for ages, he was in his own little world… Children have such Innocent minds..It made me stop and think about what might lie ahead of him in his life to come, and that also worried me too. How wonderful this age is to be so innocent of worry and all that is happening in the world around us.
Gwen my Daughter by Shirley Roma Charlton

Gwen I just love you so much you are such a beautiful girl . This watercolour was painted from life and with only watercolours. She was so great at just staying still. My darling daughter is now about to get married and here she was 11 years old – all the years fly by. Thank you my only Daughter for being such a wonderful person and so kind.
Barbara by Jim Phillips

Watercolour Meet my wife Barbara. Love of my life.
Sunday Afternoon by Lora Garcelon

Watercolor painting, 9×9 inches. This was a happy moment with my girls that I wanted to capture and preserve on paper. I hope they will grow up to be best friends. Painted on 140 lb Arches paper.
W. J. Browne (My Father) by Margaret Stockdale

Graphite pencil on Arches w’colour paper. This is a large pencil portrait of my father, done quite a few years ago when my Dad was still alive. / I’ve won numerous awards with this work, but have no really good photos of it (before digital). Obviously, it’s part of my private collection. My father had lost his right hand in an accident when I was 3 years old, so always sat with his arm tucked under this way, a typical pose of Dad.
Bianca On Blue by Andy Beck

Original Painting Details: / 2008 / Acrylic on Canvas / 76×61 cm
Claire by Simon Aberle

The love of my life, my heart’s desire, my greatest reward from the Gods for the hard lessons I’ve had to learn. / This young lady Claire O’Brien and I are to be wed on the 31st of October in the Australian version of Beltane (which is traditionally in May in the northern hemisphere), a Pagan time of celebration where the God and Godess are reunited finally. / A notion that couldn’t be more apt, as Claire and I met on Red Bubble in April this year, fell deeply in love, despite 10,000 miles between us. / She travelled to Australia alone and stayed with me for 5 weeks in June/July, and we knew we were born for each other, without question. / I asked her to marry me while she was here, and with immense courage we sacrificed our time with each other once again for distance, in order for her to apply for immigration, which would not have been possible without financial help from kind hearted family members, particularly Mary and Clive. She went back to England 12 weeks ago, and the visa was finally approved last week. She will arrive back in my arms in a week, a moment we have been hoping, dreaming, and begging for. / This is a true romantic story with a happy ending :) Completed 16th September, 2009 / Graphite mechanical pencils, 3H, HB, 2B, 8B on Reeves white sketch paper, A3

Recent Work

Spring by pucci ferraris

oil on canvas / 30×40 cm.
Winter Landscape...A Weekend in the Country by Janis Zroback

By the time we got to Little Milton, the weather had changed…whose idea was it any way to go down on this weekend of all weekends….after all it was Christmas…Pamela had extended the invitation weeks ago, and none of us were keen on the idea then…a remote place…a house no one had seen, or heard of…Wren House?...the name conjured up nothing but a sense of moulding age…on Friday someone, maybe Tom, who was always bored and looking for excitement, made what seemed now to be an idiotic suggestion, that we should all drive down and visit old Pam…the day started out fine and we were in great spirits…even the ancient Rover seemed in good form as we rolled out of the city…it was just after dawn so there was no traffic, but by mid afternoon the wind changed, and it became very noticeable that there was no heat in the car…after the mornings hilarity, silence grew till it was almost palpable…even Dahlia’s feeble attempts to continue telling jokes fell flat….the sky grew much darker, and flurries of snow mixed with rain battered the windshield….Mark’s driving, erratic even in good weather, became downright dangerous on the treacherous roads over the downs…suddenly the old faithful car seemed to make a last gasp for breath and then died….peering out at the unfamiliar landscape we knew the worst… we had now lost our way...Janis (fiction..A Weekend in the Country) Watercolour on Clayboard..part of the Winter Landscape Collection, which is now featured on my art pages...HERE / And HERE / Effet De Neige
Laurent by Sandrine Pelissier

A watercolor portrait of my husband.. The paper is Canson cold press 140 lb. I used some gouache and watercolor in the background. / You can see a step by step demo of how this painting was done : here on my website. / Size : 15×22 inches
Dead or Alive by Alaina Stocker

Done in white and black charcoal and colored pencil on tan construction paper. 18×24. Also… my first done from observation! Yay colleges, be proud of me! Accept me!
Nicole by Alaina Stocker

My girlie Nicole who posed for me at 4 in the morning on our choir retreat. That’s love. Graphite on newsprint. 18×24
Sweet Cicely - self portrait after Egon Schiele by Lorry Bentham

Drawing in ink
Owning her own space by martinz

pastel oil pencil in gesso painted card / ....... / You can see it in her face / She owns that space / Without a trace of fear she say’s / I BELONG HERE / .........
Summer Icebergs by Elizabeth Moore Golding

This is an oil painting on canvas 91×61x2cms. These are very hardy roses and grew in our front garden in Buninyong, country Victoria, Australia. I painted this on an easel over several days and people would stop and look at its progress!
Zach and Diana by Sri Parker

pen on construction paper 2008 my friend watching his girlfriend sleep (it should be horizontal)
Hibiscus by pookashell168

Watercolor painting of a hibiscus flower
Blue agapanthus by Elizabeth Moore Golding

Painting, acrylic on canvas 61×61x4cms. These were growing nearby in the street and I painted them as I painted the white agapanthus (also on RedBubble) before they dried out in the summer heat.

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About This Group

The group has been formed to encourage “real” life Artwork like, Paintings, Sketches, drawings, Pastel sketches etc. The painting should not be enhanced or modified using digital techniques.

Please ensure that all the artworks being entered into the group challenges are submitted for moderations to the group. As noted in the rules, Digital Art will be rejected without notice. We believe there are other groups for this work.

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