Oil Painting. r/Oilpainting it's a place to share your OWN paintings, we don't care if you are new or professional, all art are welcome. we only allow real oilpaints, not digital or AI generated, both will get you banned. Founded 2011 · 1.1M members
1.1M members. The best post we have captured here reached
25.2K upvotes, which works out to
24 per 1,000 members.
The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.
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Image 61%Gallery 32%Text 4%Question 3%
The topics it labels
Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.
I did a thing! 218critique ok! 110question? 31UNKIND critique plz 18Art question? 14Technical question? 13Materials? 11Political Art 3lewd 1
What the ceiling looks like
The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
What is r/oilpainting?
r/oilpainting ("Oil Painting") describes itself this way: r/Oilpainting it's a place to share your OWN paintings, we don't care if you are new or professional, all art are welcome. we only allow real oilpaints, not digital or AI generated, both will get you banned. It was founded in 2011 and has 1.1M members.
How many members does r/oilpainting have?
r/oilpainting has about 1.1M members. ViralHunt has tracked 419 of its posts; the biggest reached 25.2K upvotes, which is 24 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/oilpainting?
"Behind The Trees, My new oil painting 120x90 cm" reached 25.2K upvotes and 393 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/oilpainting.
What subreddits are similar to r/oilpainting?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/Archaeology, r/illinois, r/economicCollapse.
What kind of posts do best on r/oilpainting?
Of the posts we hold, 61% are image posts and 32% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/oilpainting?
Across 419 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 00:00 UTC (8.3K avg upvotes), Friday at 14:00 UTC (7.8K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 12:00 UTC (7.7K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/oilpainting?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/oilpainting has 12.2K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 305 posts from it in the last 30 days.
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community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is
weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.
Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed.
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