Inspiration painting

Who could have thought that simple Altoid tins could transform into various useful everyday objects and even masterpieces? In this case, Ohio-based artist Remington Robinson continues to create beautiful mini Plein air paintings. His tiny blank canvas turns into realistic paintings portraying natural and urban landscapes.

Each colorful stroke swipes across the nighttime sky like a shooting star—small in comparison to space, but visually powerful.

If you want to paint your canvas but have no idea where to start; we’ve got some ideas you can try. Let's get creative with some beautiful yet easy things.

If you're looking for painting ideas, here is a collection of stunning sunset paintings to inspire you to create your own masterpiece.

María Fernanda Ramírez de la Torre is an architect and illustrator, and mom of 3 based in Lima, Peru. She met watercolor 2 years ago and since then she has been creating splendid art pieces. "Since I was a child, I really liked drawing and painting. I went everywhere with a briefcase full of paints

André Schulze scours dusty thrift store bins and private advertisements for vintage paintings and photographs created in the first half of the 20th Century. The German artist restores the found artworks and then dramatically alters them by working directly on the canvas, layering each rendering with boldly new scenes: a stodgy bookworm finds himself in a sea of fish, an elderly woman peers out her window only to see a neighboring home ablaze, and a vintage portrait is transformed into a…