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r/painting

4.6M members. The best post we have captured here reached 148.8K upvotes, which works out to 32 per 1,000 members.

32peak upvotes per 1,000 members
4.6Mmembers
148.8Kbest post
4.8Kmost comments
103posts we track

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What actually lands here

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 52% Gallery 43% Video 5%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Just Sharing 64 Opinions Needed 2 Brutal Critique 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

I just sold my first painting for over $1k! What do you think?

↑ 148.8K 💬 3.3K image 2025

My oil painting on a newspaper

↑ 87.7K 💬 1K image 2025

I love painting storms

↑ 79K 💬 1.4K gallery 2025

Finished a watercolor series called “Invasive Species”

↑ 75.8K 💬 1.5K gallery 2026

Painting a dream I had of my late fiancee and I

↑ 75K 💬 696 image 2025

My dad with Parkinson's disease loves painting. These are some of my favourites Hope you guys give lots of support to him.

↑ 67.8K 💬 1.6K gallery 2025

3rd place in first show & both of my paintings sold!

↑ 67.6K 💬 692 gallery 2025

A painting my mother did 40 years ago. I figured it finally deserves some recognition

↑ 67.4K 💬 589 image 2025

Done. Let me know what you think?

↑ 66.2K 💬 1.8K image 2025

This is my work that I want to share with you all

↑ 61.5K 💬 737 image 2025

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/painting, not everything the 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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. See how we measure.