Oil painting: Unleash your creative mind by practising oil painting after gaining inspiration from your peers. In this post we have included 50 Beautiful and realistic oil painting works from around the world for your inspiration. In this series we have also added photo realistic oil paintings for your inspiration. If you make a mistake while oil painting, you can fix them within two days, after that your paint will start to dry out and any changes may cause the colors to leak. Oil painting is made up of colour pigments which are bonded with oil, linseed oil was used for many centuries in Europe to bound the pigments together.