r/oilpainting vs r/painting
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Oil painting room vs painting gallery room
r/oilpainting’s public description is for sharing your own paintings in real oil paints — digital and AI-generated work are removed. r/painting describes an artist cooperative gallery for painters at many levels.
painting is larger (about 4.6M, rank #198) than oilpainting (about 1.1M, rank #991). Recent activity shows painting posting more often (~120 posts/day vs ~46). Both are image- and gallery-heavy; oilpainting flairs include “I did a thing,” critique ok, and materials/technical questions. Our directory lists each name among the other’s related communities.
Rule titles: oilpainting requires oil-painting relevance, bans commercial plugging and careless hazmat tips, and wants proper image crops; painting requires own works, bans ads/reposts/NSFW paintings, and limits to one post per day.
- Choose r/oilpainting for real oil-paint work and materials questions under its medium-only and no-AI rules.
- Choose r/painting for general painting gallery shares across media under its own-work rules.
- Both sit outside the current Top 100 cut. watercolor-vs-painting is a related medium comparison when present.
Written comparison based on public descriptions and rule titles · updated 2026-11-07.
r/oilpainting
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.
- Members
- 1.1M
- 7-day growth
- +1.2K
- Posts/day
- 45.6
- Directory rank
- #991
- Created
- Sep 22, 2011
- Submissions
- Text or links
Sample mix: images 63%, galleries 26%, text posts 10%
Topics: Art, Painting
Rule titles (short names we collected)
- be kind
- Should be relevant to oil painting.
- Do not recommend hazmats w/o caveats
- Commercial plugging prohibited
- Self Promotion
- Civilized Political Discussion
- First time oil painter only for beginners
- Crop Image Properly
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r/painting
Painting
Welcome to /r/Painting! Functioning like an artist cooperative gallery, this is the place where beginning to advanced painters display their work in an ongoing group discussion. Artists who post their work are strongly …
- Members
- 4.6M
- 7-day growth
- +3.6K
- Posts/day
- 114.4
- Directory rank
- #198
- Created
- Jun 12, 2008
- Submissions
- Text or links
Sample mix: images 63%, galleries 29%, text posts 5%
Topics: Art, Painting
Rule titles (short names we collected)
- Be respectful and civil.
- No advertising of any kind.
- Only post your own works.
- No reposts.
- Painting posts only.
- One post per day.
- This is not a mental health support subreddit.
- Use existing resources.
- Critiques must be constructive.
- No "is this good for x" posts, "what style is this" posts, or requests to name your artwork.
- 100 karma is required to POST.
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Supported differences
| Aspect | r/oilpainting | r/painting |
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| Public focus (from each community’s public description) |
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. |
Welcome to /r/Painting! Functioning like an artist cooperative gallery, this is the place where beginning to advanced painters display their work in an ongoing group discussion. Artists who post their work are strongly … |
| Size r/painting is larger in our directory (about 4.3×). |
1.1M members |
4.6M members |
| Posting activity (our sample) |
45.6/day |
114.4/day |
| Common post types in our sample |
images 63%, galleries 26%, text posts 10% |
images 63%, galleries 29%, text posts 5% |
| Selected rule titles (short names we collected) |
be kind; Should be relevant to oil painting.; Do not recommend hazmats w/o caveats; Commercial plugging prohibited; Self Promotion |
Be respectful and civil.; No advertising of any kind.; Only post your own works.; No reposts.; Painting posts only. |
What they share
- Shared SubMouse topics: Art, Painting
- Our directory lists each of these communities on the other’s related list.
Rules and posting patterns we can verify
oilpainting short titles include: be kind; should be relevant to oil painting; do not recommend hazmats without caveats; commercial plugging prohibited; tag NSFW; self promotion; civilized political discussion; first-time oil painter beginner lane; crop image properly. Common flairs include “I did a thing,” critique ok and materials/technical questions.
painting: be respectful and civil; no advertising; only post your own works; no reposts; NSFW paintings not allowed; painting posts only; one post per day; not a mental-health support subreddit; use existing resources; critiques must be constructive.
Where this comparison comes from
Public descriptions and member counts from SubMouse’s safe-for-work directory. Mutual related-list links. Short titles only. Related curated page: watercolor-vs-painting.
Members and public descriptions come from SubMouse's safe-for-work directory (as of 2026-11-09 UTC); 7-day growth measured from 2026-11-02. Posts/day and post types are shown where recent activity is available. Rule lines are short titles, not the full sidebar. Directory rank is listing order.