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

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 ...

Today’s featured artist is Jax Chachitz, an international painter who has lived and worked both in New York and Germany. Her art is completely abstract expressionist in style, yet fascinatingly full of subconscious imagery.

Photographs have always captured split second moments in time, yet An Xiao's photography is extra special in that regard. Splitting time between New York and Los Angeles, An Xiao's urban photography is inspired both by haiku poetry and the images ...

Johannes Wessmark is an exceptionally talented color pencil artist from Sweden. Working only in a photorealistic (or superrealistic) style, Johannes routinely pushes the limits of what colored pencils and watercolors can accomplish.

This week's featured artist, Trisha Lamoreaux, has found a way to use the textural, 3-dimensional quality of oil paint to her advantage. Using only a palette knife, Trisha's paintings are ALL about the texture - well, texture and color, that ...