Many artists choose to portray the scenic beauty of nature in their canvases. These are broadly termed as landscape paintings. The subject of these oil paintings could be pastoral lands and fields, desert lands with the beautiful sand dunes, cacti and camels, distant mountains and hills, sunset, autumn season with leaves falling carpeting the woods and the like. In a landscape art the concept of perspective is an important element as the artists have to portray both near and far things in their right proportion and color. Beginning with the impressionistic period in the mid 19th century, landscape oil paintings in canvases have become rather popular.

Oil paintings portraying landscapes are more popular in canvases. Very rarely do we find landscapes painted as murals and walls. Such paintings that portray nature in its glorious splendor are much sought after. These paintings are seen hung in large halls and living rooms and would not look out of place even in a bedroom if the painting portrays a sense of serenity like an oil painting of the setting sun or one of gentle breeze blowing through the woods. There are many places where one could browse to buy an eye-catching landscape art. GreatCanvasArt.com has a collection of beautiful landscape paintings. The store offers free shipping and also discounts on select canvas oil paintings.