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Damian Osborne is a figurative and landscape painter of contemporary realism and imagination living in South Africa.

 

 

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My latest painting guide…

A simplified summary of the most important principles to be aware of when painting. This 68-page guide with full-page colour artwork is meant to help beginner, as well as professional artists. Use it to explore new aspects or directions in your painting and to check your own work. My aim was to write this booklet without clinging to dogmatic ideas, fashionable trends or obfuscation, but keep to the universal and fundamental principles of painting.

 

 

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Hi! I’m Damian Osborne.

 

And I’m a contemporary figurative and landscape artist from South Africa.

Painting is fundamental to honouring this life and this reality. It’s communication with the unconscious and with Nature. Through art, I hope to subtly stir an internal shift in the way people connect to the land, themselves and this vast natural world; to invite introspection; to awaken a sense of belonging and appreciation.   

 

• So if you want to learn some really interesting art techniques from the Old Masters;

• Or if you wanna know more about my art and weird ideas, workshops, exhibitions and art lessons;

• Or if you just want some inspiration as an artist —

 

Then join me here. 

 

What is Contemporary Realism?

Contemporary Realism is a loose term — sometimes interchangeable with terms such as ‘Modern Realism’ or ‘Representational Artist’ — which describes an art movement that is a kind of reaction against ‘Modern’, ‘Pop’ or ‘Abstract’ art, where the artist paints their subject matter in a realistic manner.