Do you need to find a professional artist to paint an oil portrait? Do you need a pencil portrait artist? Are you looking for that artist whose paintings and drawings literally spring to life? Do you need oil paintings and pencil portraits that bring out the true likeness and personality of the subject? If a realistic portrait artist is needed, you have found him!

Welcome to the website of St. Louis Portrait Artist Jim Denny, painting realistic, lifelike, reasonably priced portraits for clients from California to Maine.
Art By Jim Denny is the art studio of Southern Illinois portrait artist Jim Denny. As one of the St. Louis Area's portrait artists for over 30 years, Jim has been primarily painting realistic portraits for private collections across the United States. He specializes both as a pencil portrait artist and an oil portrait painter. This artist strives to find and bring out the true personality of the subject that you need to see in the finished portrait. He creates lifelike, realistic, museum quality portraits of adults, children, brides and grooms, family groupings, and pets. Your portrait can be created as an oil painting or as a detailed pencil drawing, using your photographs as the model and the inspiration for the portrait. Do you need an oil portrait or pencil portrait of your classic automobile or your house? These portraits, or almost anything else you need to see immortalized as a work of art can also be commissioned. He can draw your pencil portrait as a monochrome drawing or in full color. A monochrome pencil portrait can be in classic black & white or sepia & white. His full color pencil portraits, which he refers to as his " Pencil Paintings ", have the look of a pastel painting. The pencil portraits are drawn in traditional classical realism. His oil portraits are painted with that same realism, the style that is characteristic of the old masters of portraiture. Your full satisfaction is guaranteed!