David Simons is an outdoors painter whose work I recently came across while online at WetCanvas. Simons' paintings are loose and confident, and painted primarily from life which I think helps him to capture the light and colors that are so vivid in the following scenes.
This week's review is on J Matt Miller, a Seattle artist who began his daily painting blog in July of 2006. The thing that drew me to his art was its great visual texture and his use of strong dark shadows to clearly create three dimensional objects.
How much color can one artist cram into a painting? Charles Sovek is a painter whose art almost seems to consist of pure color, loosely held together by familiar shapes and settings. Charles Sovek's art spans several mediums, but with every type of paint his work vibrates with intensity.
For Scottish artist John Stoa, snow is never boring. Instead, he depicts beauty in every wintry landscape, using bright colors...
Don Dahlke's art is meant to evoke a certain feeling - that of warm summer days and ocean breezes. Those emotions, however, are created by Don's use of strong light and shadow, and the way he defines a sense of space and structure within his paintings. Continue reading. . .
This week's featured artist is Robert Sandidge, a painter from the heart of California gold country whose paintings reflect his love of California. Full of subtle hues overlaid with vivid splashes of color, Robert Sandidge paints in an impressionist style to capture the true feeling of the land.
Today’s featured artist is Greg Kapka, an absolutely fantastic painter from Nottingham, UK. I’ve been keeping track of Kapka's work for a while now, as he’s been posting daily paintings on his blog. Usually the paintings are of vegetables or fruits; the one below is titled Spring Onions.
Born in China, Jove Wang was educated at the finest art institutes in the country. His paintings are rich and thick, skillfully painted with bold color and a masterful application of paint. In the painting below he's prominently used two brilliant primaries, blue and red, but balanced them with liberal fields of white and a wall of neutral browns.
Megan Lightell is a landscape painter from Tennessee whose work I came across just a few weeks ago. Megan's paintings are fairly large, so it's difficult to really do them justice here. In fact, this painting entitled Long Memory is five feet wide in real life.
Zhaoming Wu is an incredibly talented Chinese oil painter whose painting style ranges from soft to hard-edged. What I really love about his work, however, is all of the cold blues, purples, greens, and yellows that he puts into the shadow areas of his portraits. Read more. . .
Lucian Freud was born in 1922, and is now 85 years old. He's Britain's most famous figurative painter, and possibly its oldest, best known for his raw and unforgiving paintings of nudes.
Rebecca Finch is a talented New Jersey painter and photographer whose oil paintings seem to be a visual extension of her own inner goodness. In a world where art is so often dark, shocking, and even obscene, Rebecca’s paintings take on new meaning—they champion the cause of simple beauty, warmth, and kindness.