The Oil Paintings of Jamie Howard are some of the rarest items in the collection. He only produced a limited number due to the time consuming nature of his methods.

Using old master techniques, Jamie Howard built his own canvas stretchers, hand prepared his gesso ground, and prepped his own panels for painting rather than turning to commercially available products. This allowed him to further control the end result of his work.

In terms of paint application, Jamie Howard would work in numerous thin layers, carefully applying paint in a way that brushstrokes are barely noticeable. The reason for this, he said, was to not add a texture element to the image itself thus reducing distraction in the image to the viewer.

Due to the slightly translucent nature of oil painting, especially as a painting ages, Jamie Howard would envision mentally the completed painting before beginning a new work. Everything in an oil painting is in the correct placement from beginning to end. A skill not easily mastered.

Historical inspirations: Jan Van Eyck, Hans Holbein, Emil Nolde, Max Kaus, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff.

The palette colors he carefully selected were used throughout his career. He primarily used Winsor and Newton, Artist's’ Oil in the following hues:

Although these palette colors were the basis of all paintings, Jamie Howard tended to mix unique colors of at least a tertiary separation from the original and never used a color plain from the tube.