Featured Artists: Painters, Mixed-media Artists, Photographers, and more

Priscilla Treacy is an art teacher, painter, and printmaker from Virginia who has just recently started her own painting a day blog in March of 2008. Unlike some daily painters, Priscilla's work spans several mediums including pastel, gouache, drypoint etching, ...

J.K. Chapman is an artist from the UK whose paintings are an interesting blend of pen and ink illustration, architectural design, and traditional painting techniques. His most recent works depict crowded city scenes, packed in with buildings and other structures ...

Today's article is a poem, yet I think it speaks directly to the choice that all artists must make. It was written by contemporary American poet and writer, Robert Bruce, and has been republished here with permission of the author. ...

Awtar Singh Virdi is a contemporary artist from India who paints amazing portraits - but he does so by using a technique called "anamorphosis." This means that if you only look at part of one of Awtar's paintings, it will ...

Up until a few months ago Lois Eakin was a graphic design manager - now she paints full-time, in a rich and beautifully realistic style that hearkens back to the 17th century Dutch masters of still life painting.

Today's featured artist is Ben Lustenhouwer, a talented portrait painter from Spain. Whether drawing, oil painting, or working in watercolors, Ben accomplishes a high level of realism without losing the artistry, the magic, of his medium.

For the last decade or so, Shelley Hocknell Zentner (a British artist currently living in the US) has successfully combined two of her passions in life: rock climbing and painting the human figure.

Linda Lewis, this week's featured artist, effortlessly captures defining moments of humanity with her uniquely textured, fire-hardened clay sculptures.

Michael Chesley Johnson is a plein air painter, pastel artist, and art teacher from New Brunswick, Canada. His paintings (often created on the shores of Canada's maritime provinces) are simple and clear reflections on the beauty of nature.

Paul Politis is a self-taught photographer from Ottawa, Canada whose extensive portfolio of work encompasses portraits, figures, still-lifes, and city scenes, most of which are in the gritty, realistic style seen below.

Nathan Selikoff is a computer programmer and mathematician - as well as a creator of beautiful digital prints via a rather unusual medium of numbers, logic, and code. I have to admit, when I first came across Nathan's work several ...