Ran Art Blog

I created Ran Art Blog© to share my knowledge and experience as an artist and an art instructor.

You can find free tutorials, tips, and techniques in the blog section.

Below is a selection of my realistic oil paintings.

The atmosphere has a profound effect on landscape painting.

Color, brightness values, and edges are used to create the illusion of depth.

Explore 15 methods (with many examples) in my guide for drawing the illusion of depth.

Atmospheric perspective is the method for landscape painting:

• The further away an object is from the observer, the contrast between the object and its surroundings decreases, and so does the contrast of its texture.
• The color of the object becomes less saturated and deviates toward the sky color, depending on its distance and climate conditions.

Learn more about realistic painting in my guide on how to paint realism (8 key fundamentals).

Wildlife painting requires consideration of the anatomical structure and accuracy in details.

Colors are important too. Each animal, like any object, is identified by its unique hue, which acts as its fingerprint.

Find out more in my guide on how to mix colors for oil painting.

In addition to oil paints, I use other mediums too.

In the next example, I used markers for the base layer and colored pencils for the details.

This is my guide for drawing paper.

Here I used colored pencils.

The core of this website is its blog!

It took time and effort to create it and is constantly updated with fresh and helpful content.

It includes tutorials like how to draw realism, how to draw trees with pen and ink, and guides for beginners.

Advanced artists can enjoy guides on perspective drawing and drawing from imagination.

Blog: drawing and painting tutorials.