Realistic Oil Paintings by Alyssa Monks

The Art of Alyssa Monks.

Selected oil paintings by Alyssa Monks. The selection shows very realistic portrait paintings of bathing or showering women. The viewer is intrigued by the artistic effect of wet skin and hair immersed in water or faces behind dripping and smeared glass. Alyssa Monks is an American artist who started to paint in her childhood. After studying at The New School in New York and Montclair State University, she earned a Bachelor of Arts from Boston College in 1999.

Tonic - oil painting on linen by Alyssa Monks, 2011
Tonic – oil painting on linen by Alyssa Monks, 2011
Comply  - oil painting on panel by Alyssa Monks, 2013
Comply – oil painting on panel by Alyssa Monks, 2013
Reserve oil painting on linen by Alyssa Monks, 2011
Reserve oil painting on linen by Alyssa Monks, 2011
Scab - oil painting on linen by Alyssa Monks, 2013
Scab – oil painting on linen by Alyssa Monks, 2013
Scream - oil painting on linen by Alyssa Monks, 2010
Scream – oil painting on linen by Alyssa Monks, 2010
Squeeze - Study from 2012 - oil painting on panel by Alyssa Monks
Squeeze – Study from 2012 – oil painting on panel by Alyssa Monks
Swipe - Study from 2012 -oil painting on panel by Alyssa Monks
Swipe – Study from 2012 -oil painting on panel by Alyssa Monks
Tell  - oil painting on panel by Alyssa Monks, 2011
Tell – oil painting on panel by Alyssa Monks, 2011
Trust - oil painting on linen by Alyssa Monks, 2010
Trust – oil painting on linen by Alyssa Monks, 2010