Paintings
Let’s turn a blank canvas into a beautiful exciting colourful artistic experience with a portrait painting
or any variety of painting!

Interested in murals? Check out the murals page to view the mural portfolio and more information about Christiano’s process of developing murals.
The expression of ideas and emotions, with the creation of certain aesthetic qualities, in a two-dimensional visual language to communicate, illustrates, decorates and evokes feelings. The elements of this language — its concept idea, composition, design, drawing, shapes, lines, colours, tones, and texture are used in various ways to produce sensations of volume, space, movement, and light on a flat surface. These elements are combined into expressive patterns in order to represent real or supernatural phenomena, to interpret a narrative theme, or to create exclusively abstract visual connections.
Christiano De Araujo creates portrait paintings, landscape paintings, and conceptual paintings as well as murals of all sizes. Christiano works with any art medium (oil, acrylic, latex paints, enamel, watercolor, gouache and ink paints, dry and oil pastel, chalk and charcoal), and in any style or technique (portrait painting, realism, hyper-realism, illustration, graphic, or abstract). Contact Christiano to initiate your commissioned painting project or to purchase an original painting from the gallery below. Prints of original paintings are also available.
Christiano De Araujo creates portrait paintings, landscape paintings, and conceptual paintings as well as murals of all sizes. Christiano works with any art medium (oil, acrylic, latex paints, enamel, watercolor, gouache and ink paints, dry and oil pastel, chalk and charcoal), and in any style or technique (portrait painting, realism, hyper-realism, illustration, graphic, or abstract). Contact Christiano to initiate your commissioned painting project or to purchase an original painting from the gallery below. Prints of original paintings are also available.
We are fully insured with a commercial general insurance liability policy as well as WSIB coverage.
Get a free estimate on your commissioned portrait painting or painting project.
Painting Gallery

Entangled – Oil on canvas – 188cm height by 165cm width – (6’2” x 5’4”) – Toronto 2015.
This original painting is currently for sale. As well as high quality canvas prints. Please contact the artist directly to inquire about purchasing this original or prints.

Entangled – CLOSE UP - Oil on canvas – 188cm height by 165cm width – (6’2” x 5’4”)
This original painting is currently for sale. As well as high quality canvas prints. Please contact the artist directly to inquire about purchasing this original or prints.

Psychedelic Girl 1 - Oil on Canvas - 20 x 30 inches.
Colour and intensity dominate the painting. It is a pure expression of vitality, energy and femininity, done with surprising and alluring contrasts.
It is an image of a strong woman, unafraid to be provocative and challenging, gazing at the viewer and the world openly and with no pretenses, her beauty is conveyed by allowing us to enter into her inner world - It is far deeper than the artificial appeal of the body, Vibrant and sensual!
The psychedelic girl remains an enigma.

Psychedelic Girl 2 - Oil on Canvas - 36 x 12 inches - Toronto, Winter 2020.
This original painting is currently for sale. As well as high-quality canvas prints. Please contact the artist directly to inquire about purchasing this original or prints.

Super Wonder - Acrylic & Oil on Canvas - 6' x 3' feet.
This original painting is currently for sale. As well as high quality canvas prints. Please contact the artist directly to inquire about purchasing this original or prints.

COPACABANA PARTY FOR YEMANJÁ - Oil on Canvas - 60 x 14 inches.
A combination of mysticism, spirituality and fantasy, this painting is an expression of Brazil's folklore and culture throughout the ages until modern day carnival.

COPACABANA PARTY FOR YEMANJÁ - (Left side detail)
This original painting is currently for sale. As well as high quality canvas prints. Please contact the artist directly to inquire about purchasing this original or prints.

COPACABANA PARTY FOR YEMANJÁ - (Center detail)
This original painting is currently for sale. As well as high quality canvas prints. Please contact the artist directly to inquire about purchasing this original or prints.

COPACABANA PARTY FOR YEMANJÁ - (Right side detail)
This original painting is currently for sale. As well as high quality canvas prints. Please contact the artist directly to inquire about purchasing this original or prints.

Face Trick - Oil on canvas - 48 x 24 inches.
This original painting is currently for sale. As well as high quality canvas prints. Please contact the artist directly to inquire about purchasing this original or prints.

Face Trick - Oil on canvas - 48 x 24 inches. DETAIL
This original painting is currently for sale. As well as high quality canvas prints. Please contact the artist directly to inquire about purchasing this original or prints.

POP ART - Oil on canvas - 36 x 24 inches - Toronto 2013.
Pop art is a pop expression of the delightful pop moments in our everyday pop life.
This piece elevates the everyday pop can to the level of an icon; an emblem of a culture fascinated with the power of the brand name.
The striking design elements, captured in popping pointillism, are recognized by millions all over the world. They remind us of our pop moments with our pops, our delicious childhood pop memories, our pop stories we've lived, pop places we've been, and pop people we've known, which are now permanently ingrained in our pop culture and pop psyche.

Ice Horses - Oil on canvas - 48 x 30 inches.
'The Horses represent my homeland, Goiás, Brazil. The Ice represents my new home, Canada.' -
This original painting is currently for sale. As well as high quality canvas prints. Please contact the artist directly to inquire about purchasing this original or prints.

Jann Arden commissioned design for Garden Retreats inc. to display at Canada Blooms - Oil on canvas - 36 x 12 inches.
This original painting is currently for sale. As well as high quality canvas prints. Please contact the artist directly to inquire about purchasing this original or prints.

Space girl - Oil on canvas - 20 x 20 inches. - Toronto 2011
This original painting is currently for sale. As well as high quality canvas prints. Please contact the artist directly to inquire about purchasing this original or prints.

XPRING (Mariya) - Oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inches. Toronto 2011
This painting was selected as one of the finalists in the Kingston Prize Exhibition of 2011.
The Kingston Prize, Canada's National Portraiture, is a biennial national competition for contemporary portraits of Canadians by Canadian artists.
The finalists' entries was exhibited at the Firehall Theater, Gananooque 2011, At the ROM (Royal Ontario Museum) From 2011 to 2012 and at the La Galerie D'art Desjardins in Drummondville, QC. 2012.

Venusian World - Oil on canvas - 22 x 30 inches.
Venusian World by Christiano -
Women are from Venus, Men are from Mars. The planet Venus is the origin of all females that ever existed. Legend has it that it is impossible for any man to get to Venus. It's simply impossible.
An astronaut decided to go against this idea and chose to embark on a journey there. When he got close to his destination he was surrounded by the numerous Amazonians who were protecting the planet. They did not allow any man to come near at all. As a result of his arrival, the planet went into a state of alert and the all powerful queen of Venus took notice. She decided she had to use her power to stop him. So she boarded her ship and flew away from her Queendom to travel towards the man in order to stop him from coming any closer.
As she disembarked she could not help but feel an overwhelming sense of intrigue. Amazed by his daringness and courage, she felt the urge to speak to him. The Queen approached the man slowly, taking in every aspect of his being. When she finally spoke her voice was filled with authority. "I know who you are already...you're a painter and a very brave one at that. No one has ever gotten this close to us. Is it the beauty we possess that you want to see?"
The man nodded in acknowledgement.
"I give you credit for that," she said.
Reaching into the depths of his imagination he said, "Your planet is beyond imagination. It is resplendent with mountains of diamonds, transcendent gardens, gold all over, towers of infinite power, and colors that don't even exist."
"I'm sorry you won't be able to experience the beauty of our planet. I will however, in a limited amount of time, allow you to paint an image from afar of what you see and then you must go back. If you cross this line in an attempt to get closer...I will destroy you," she replied.
It is this very image you see before you that resulted from this voyage. Never to be repeated again.

HOLLY - Oil on canvas, 34 x 18 inches. - Toronto 2001.
This original painting is currently for sale. As well as high quality canvas prints. Please contact the artist directly to inquire about purchasing this original or prints.

ANGELS ELLS - Oil on canvas, 40 x 32 inches. - Toronto 2002 - SOLD.
Original painting not available for sale.

Commissioned Portrait of Antonio Lectora Caballer. - Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches. - Toronto 2009 - SOLD.

RAUL SEIXAS - Oil pastel on Paper - Anapolis, GO. Brazil 1989
Original artwork not available for sale.

Jimmy Carter - Oil on Canvas - 48 x 44 inches.
Commissioned piece for Jimmy's Coffee II at Kensington Market - 191 Baldwin Street, Toronto 2013
Original painting not available for sale

LOVE is 1,2,3... - Oil on canvas - 5 x 7 inches. - Toronto 2009
LOVE is 1,2,3... by Christiano
The rose represents: LOVE
The chalk represents: TEACHING
The numbers 1 2 3, represents: INFINITY (our eternal nature)
Love is the most positive, strong and powerful emotion in the entire universe.
Chalk is the instrument of teachers. Everything starts with love and that is a process that is either being taught to us or we teach ourselves based on our choices.
Numbers are the only language that are universal, 1 2 3 is the start of it, and it keeps going and going... it increases throughout the infinite forever; just like the never ending journey of the Universe. I believe we are made of this, the combination of these two, WE ARE INFINITE BEINGS OF LOVE!
Therefore, we should teach and practice love eternally!

Flores de Oleo - Oil on canvas, 12 x 16 inches. - Toronto 2002
Original painting not available for sale.

Melting Girls - Oil on canvas - 24 x 36 inches. Toronto 2009
Melting Girls by Christiano
Yin yang is complementary opposites that interact within a greater whole, as part of a dynamic system. Positive and negative, light and dark, good and evil, hot and cold, female and male, etc… Yin is female and yang is male.
As the two girls mould into each other you see that they are two parts of a whole. Although both are female and exhibiting homosexual behavior they represent two aspects of a single reality.
They are dependent on their opposing force but they flow through a natural cycle always seeking balance. They fit together as two parts of a whole, so they complement the duality of the universe. Each contains the seed of the other hence, the black spot of Yin in the white Yang and vice versa.
In a woman there is a bit of man inside of her and in a man there is a bit of woman inside of him… therefore the woman that exists inside of me is Lesbian!