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Damian Osborne
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I'm a fine artist from South Africa, inspired by Baroque and Contemporary Realism painting. I make all my own pigments. I write music for my artworks.
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Nearly done. It's a painting of Silenus, Greek God of Drunkness.

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#lifedrawing #figuremodel #figuredrawing #figurativeart #drawnfromlife #charcoaldrawing #figurestudy  #watercolornude #gouache #watercolorart
#nudedrawing #nudeart #nudefiguredrawing #tortoise #greekmythology
August 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Starting a new #painting.

#lifedrawing #figuremodel #figuredrawing #figurativeart #contemporaryrealism #nudedrawing #nudeart
#portraitdrawing #realism #representationalart #comtemporaryfigurative #drawnfromlife #figure #fineart #charcoaldrawing #figurestudy #emergingartist #southafricanartist
August 26, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Male Nude #figurativenudepainting

Painted from a live model with my own hand-made oil paints.

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#figurativeart #contemporaryrealism #nudepainting #nudeart
#portraitpainting #realism #representationalart #lifedrawing #paintingfromlife #figurepainting #fineart
Male nude lying on back oil painting
August 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Male Nude Seated, oil on panel, 2023

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Painted from a #livemodel with my own handmade pigments

#figurativeart #contemporaryrealism #nudepainting
#portraitpainting #realism #representationalart #oilpainting #comtemporaryart #lifedrawing #paintingfromlife #figurepainting #fineart
Seated Male nude oil painting
August 20, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Painted from a live model with my own hand-made #oilpaint

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#figurativeart #contemporaryrealism #nudepainting
#portraitpainting #realism #representationalart #comtemporaryfigurative #lifedrawing #paintingfromlife #figurepainting #fineart #emergingartist
Nude figure painting woman curled up.
August 19, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Temperance, oil on canvas, 2023.

Painted solely with my own hand-made oil paints.

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#figurativeart #contemporaryrealism #selfportraitpainting
#portraitpainting #fantasyart #esotericart #surrealism #realism #alchemy #depthpsychology #tarot #esotericart #oilpainting #angel
Angel of Temperance oil painting
August 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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The Year of the Fool, oil on board, Damian Osborne, 2021. Painted only with my own #handmadeoilpaints

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#figurativeart #contemporaryrealism #selfportrait
#portraitpainting #fantasyart #surrealism #representationalart #alchemy #depthpsychology #tarot #esotericart #oilpainting
Self portrait oil on canvas
August 11, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Adding some more animals to my #painting (an Eastern Leopard Toad and a golden snake) and mixing up some more #watercolour pigment.

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#watercolor #watercolorart #contemporaryartist #gouache #natureart #naturalpigment #classicalrealism #realismpainting
#traditionalart #drawing
August 10, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Adding more animals to my watercolour painting. A speckled mousebird chick I called Spike.

#watercolor #watercolorpainting #watercolorart #artstudio #contemporaryartist #painting #gouache #arttips #painting #natureart #naturalpigment #classicalrealism #realismpainting #Bird #artdetail
August 7, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Working on a sweet little #watercolourpainting. It's taking much longer than I thought. I'm almost done and will post soon. I also wrote a blog and a piano caprice to go with this #painting

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#watercolorart
#watercolor #watercolorart #artstudio #contemporaryartist #gouache #art
August 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Dream Bird by Damian Osborne, oil on board, 61 x 46 cm, 2021.

Painted solely with my own hand-made oil paints.

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#figurativeart #contemporaryrealism #self-portrait
#portraitpainting #fantasyart #esotericart #surrealism #realism #representationalart #alchemy #depthpsychology
August 5, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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When you want to make #watercolours but don't have the right pigment, pastels work really well mixed with gum Arabic.

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#watercolorart #pastels #artist #alchemy
#watercolor #watercolorpainting #artstudio #contemporaryartist #painting #gouache #art #mullingpaint #arttips
August 3, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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A quickie on a Saturday night. Making this beautiful watercolour paint with lovely granulation from 450 million-year-old Maroon Graafwater shale that I collected in Cape Town.

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#watercolor #watercolorpainting #watercolorart #artstudio #contemporaryartist #painting #gouache #art
August 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Mulling some lovely purplish brown ochre for watercolour paints from maroon Graafwater shale that's 450 million years old (Ordovician Period) that I collected on a hike.

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#watercolor #watercolorpainting #watercolorart #artstudio #contemporaryartist #painting #gouache #art
Watercolours making brown ochre paint from collected earth pigment.
August 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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The Cockatrice
$350

#painting #eggtempera #oilpainting #gold-leaf #alchemy #occult #esoteric #Christianity #medieval #mythology #realism #contemporaryart #freemasonry #astrology #sketch #tarot #spiritualart #surrealart

I also wrote music for it.

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The Cockatrice by Damian Osborne, mixed media on board (egg tempera, tempera grassa and oil paint from burnt chicken bones and egg shells, with goldleaf), 65 x 59 cm, 2025
May 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM