David Renshaw is a British artist who love to paint with vibrant acrylics. As a child, his father taught him some of the basics of drawing and from then on, he dreamed of one day becoming an artist. He studied graphic design and worked his way up from being a picture framer in a local art gallery. It was only in 2005 that he decided to go into full-time painting. He said: “I always try to make my work feel atmospheric, and I like to pay particular attention to sky and cloud formations as I consider this element of my work to be extremely important to the mood of the finished painting, whether it be a dramatic sunset or a misty moonlit night.”
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Girl with Gold Hair
I was born and grew up in the beautiful county of North Yorkshire. My interest in portraiture developed at an early age, during the seventies, when I used to draw my favorite pop idols such as David Bowie. My love of art led me to study Art and Design at the local college, and then later to specialise in Textile Design at Huddersfield Polytechnic.
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Kim Jacobs has been a professional illustrator for over 30 years. Her art is featured prominently in numerous greeting cards, calendars, toys, fine art prints, and stationary products. The comfortingly homey themes of her art makes the viewer want to step right into the illustration. Kim lives and works in the far coast of Maine with her soul mate Bob and her feline friends. She said: “If in ‘visiting’ these places I’ve created in my paintings, even one person experiences a bit of joy or peace, I can feel that I’ve achieved something worthwhile.”
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Elizabeth Patterson is an L.A. based artist who has figured out the knack in recreating the fascinatingly complicated formation of raindrops on a rain-streaked windshield. What’s more unusual still is that instead of acrylic or watercolor, she uses colored pencils with a bit of solvent to create her art. She uses a composite of several of her own photographs to get a feel for her drawings. In 1984, Elizabeth was involved in a car crash which resulted in the complete loss of use of her drawing hand. For a while, she put her artistic aspirations aside and traveled to Hawaii to explore the magnificent underwater vistas. It wasn’t until around 1999 that she picked up her pencils and, to her delight, found that her artistic talent was unaffected by her injury. She continues to explore her favorite subject matter, demonstrating an admirable mastery in graphite and color pencil drawing.
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Johannes Stötter was born in south Tyrol, Italy. He is also a msician who plays the violin, guitar, and the bouzouki. Johannes won the Bodypainting World Championship last 2012. It’s not at all that surprising given his talent and the level of skill he has applied to his work. He usually paints his subjects to perfectly blend into their surroundings. His work is so detailed that it would take an observer a moment to figure out where the human is in the picture. Often, the only telltale sign would be an open eye, or a pair of slightly open lips. One of my favorites is a frog on a leaf. The frog itself is composed of five carefully arranged and strikingly painted women.
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Patrick Kramer is a painter by profession and a perfectionist by nature. It’s no wonder he got drawn to realism where everything and to be ‘just right’ in order for it to be convincing. As his technique and style improved, his work started putting photographs to shame. After all, oil paints doesn’t pixelate when you look at it closely. Bu why paint when you can simply click? In response to this question, he said: “I came to realize that the appeal of representational painting since the advent of photography is due in a large part to the painting process. Although the image itself may come to resemble an ordinary photograph, a psychological intensity can be felt in the handmade work, as the artist’s laboriously slow method, intense concentration, and myriad of artistic decisions lie behind the creation of the image. In my work, I hope the viewer senses this tension between photography and the handmade — the instantaneous and the prolonged, the ubiquitous and the unique, the impartial and the personal.”
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Brenoch Adams, if his description of himself is to be believed, is inhumanly tall, a baseball player, a gifted musician, and a numerically-gifted-dog owner (his dog Toby happens to have a furry, white number ’5′ over his right eye) whose right shoulder is an eighth of an inch lower than the left. His first name means “wounded but not dead” in Gaelic. Brenoch obtained his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration and Animation from the San Jose State University in California. He was hired by Nihilistic Software directly after graduation to work on the video game Conan which came out in Xbox 360 and PS3.
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Daryl Feril is a Philippine-based designer & illustrator whose work in watercolor is fast becoming an internet sensation. Daryl has always had a passion for art. He has spent time working with both traditional and digital medias. He has even done a bit of typography and fashion work. Daryl’s work may be described as an eclectic mix of curves, flowing lines, and hand-drawn sketches. He has been working freelance for various brands since 2012 and a list of his clients include Tiger Beer Singapore, Le Fourquet, Line Skis USA, Digital Arts Magazine, and Ecoya.
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Lisa Adams is a self-taught realist painter from Queensland, Australia. She paints for six hours a day, six days a week. Even at that pace, it takes her months to finish a single piece. She averages three to five paintings per year. Lisa begins with a crystal clear mental picture of the painting which she then tries to transfer onto the canvas. She utilizes detailed photographic references, usually her own, or the ones taken by her husband, photographer Kim Guthrie. She said: “I never paint from just one photograph, it sometimes takes hundreds of separate sources.”
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Iris Scott is a Seattle-based painter who has taken finger painting to new heights. Watching her at work is like watching a virtuoso piano player. She dips her gloved finger into high-grade oil paints and swirls them around the canvas to create beautiful portraits. She discovered her passion for finger-painting when, too lazy to leave the comforts of her cool room to clean her brushes, she started applying yellow paint with her fingers. Ten strokes later, she knew that she would spend the rest of her life finger painting with oils. She said: “I paint what I see. Finger paintings are hiding everywhere, sometimes I catch them when I’m walking down the sidewalk, or lounging in a living room. I search for color relationships, and intriguing forms. I see the world through ‘finger painted’ colored glasses.”
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