Seascapes are all about light and dark. Shadows, highlights, reflections, and gradients of color are what brings salt air to our faces. In “Lighthouse near Tybee Island“, the mood is set by the melancholic colors of the sea and sky. While overcast and gloomy, nightfall has not fallen, nor have…
Oil Paintings by Natalie Buske Thomas featuring techniques for the illusion of fire.
When the subject matter is naturally fun, that makes painting fun too. Animals are a good choice to brighten a routine. Reptiles and amphibians offer light exercise for blocking shapes and layering through gradients of mostly one color. Watch me paint this tree frog in the >2 minute time-lapse video…
Painting in collaboration with original composers and singer songwriters, and even creating piano music of my own... these experiments push the creative boundaries of an oil painter, taking art to the next level.
Painting imaginary scenes, art as a language, autism represented as an oil painting of a rose growing in a rock wall in a moonlit forest
Fun painting experiment to create animated art by painting three separate scenes of a flower: a crocus pushing through the snow from a bud, to opening, to the final flower in bloom.
Natalie Buske Thomas is the author of 30+ books. She has written a mystery series, books on faith, and children's books, but her focus currently is on art books, collections of her oil paintings in bundles of 50 new works published annually as a quality hardcover book, with interactive e-book…
Good news! Painting shows are now a regular event. Current painting shows are HERE, moved to a permanent page for adding new episodes. Enjoy!
Oil painting of a rabbit sitting among yellow roses, to illustrate a story about loss, letting go, and hope by artist Natalie Buske Thomas, includes a time lapse video to watch the artist paint this art.
Watch me paint the illustrations for children’s book Grandpa Smiles Go back to the Grandpa Smiles main page. Go back to the HOME page.