19 Fine art painting styles
Oil, impasto, impressionist and other painterly looks with visible brushwork and rich color. Use them to turn a portrait, pet or landscape into something that looks like it belongs on a wall.
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Expressive Impasto Oil
Post-Impressionist oil painting with heavy impasto: short, thick, sculptural brushstrokes that swirl and pulse with rhythm, and pure, intense colours placed side by side.
Impressionist Garden
Impressionist oil painting: soft, broken dabs of colour that capture fleeting light on water, gardens, fields and people.
Fantasy Concept Painting
Epic digital fantasy concept painting: vast landscapes, castles, creatures or heroes rendered with loose, confident painterly brushwork, dramatic volumetric light and deep atmospheric perspective.
Art Nouveau
Decorative Art Nouveau illustration: graceful figures with flowing hair and long robes framed by circular halos, arches and borders of flowers, vines and ornamental curves.
Watercolor Botanical Plate
Classic scientific botanical illustration: plants, flowers, fruit or creatures painted with precise, delicate watercolour and fine graphite lines, accurate detail and soft natural colour.
Woodblock Print
Traditional East Asian woodblock print look: bold, flowing black key lines, flat areas of colour in indigo, rust, soft green and cream, and visible wood-grain texture and slight misregistration.
Freehand Ink Wash
Expressive freehand ink-wash painting on rice paper: bold sweeping brushstrokes, dry-brush streaks with white showing through, and soft, bleeding washes of grey ink and pale transparent colour.
Tiny Ink Figures
Modern ink-wash illustration where tiny figures appear in an enormous space: a lone person on a bridge, a boat in mist, someone under a moon.
Ink-Wash Animation
Hand-drawn animation look painted in ink wash: quirky, simplified characters, flowing brush outlines, pale ink and light colour on a warm paper ground.
Ink & Red Minimal
Modern minimal ink painting with one bold accent: rough, dry black brush strokes and splashes on textured rice paper, combined with large flat shapes of bright red gouache.
Classical Silk Painting
Quiet classical painting on aged silk: very fine lines, delicate washes of blue-green, ochre and soft rust on a creamy beige ground, and vast empty space.
Silk Road Mural
Ancient cave-mural look reimagined: flying figures with long floating scarves, lotus blossoms and swirling cloud motifs in elegant curves.
Digital Fine-Line Fantasy
Digital painting that imitates traditional East Asian fine-line brushwork: precise, even outline drawing, carefully modelled robes and folds, and soft layered ink tones and mineral colours.
Dense Eastern Fantasy
Densely layered East Asian fantasy illustration: swirling waves, clouds and patterns fill every corner, with elegant figures caught in flowing, dramatic movement.
Flowing Eastern Fantasy
Graceful Eastern fantasy figures with long ribbons, sleeves and hair streaming through the air.
Dynamic Ink Editorial
Dynamic modern editorial illustration in flowing brush-and-ink lines with visible pressure and calligraphic rhythm.
Strange Botanical Ink
Meticulous pen illustration of strange, beautiful plants and creatures: curling tendrils, eyes hidden among petals, cats or girls entangled in elaborate flowers.
Lacquer & Mother-of-Pearl
Light, decorative lacquer-panel illustration: simplified, slender figures and plants in smooth flat shapes on a bright ivory, apricot or pale jade ground.
Dark Fantasy Ink & Ochre
Medieval dark-fantasy ink illustration: precise, dense crosshatching with fine steel-pen lines on warm parchment tones of ochre, sepia and umber.