Fine Art and You

Yuri Krotov is one of the most famous Russian Impressionist Painter of modern times. The name of this Russian Painter became well known to all the artists’ community and art lovers in Europe and USA when during 1992, Russian Paintings were sold at an auction room Drouot in Paris. This painters art …

Oleg Leonov is a Russian Artist who was born in 1959 and later graduated at Kazan Art School in 1980, at Moscow State Art Institute, a studio of portraying by prof. Ilya Glazunov. Since the year 1988, Oleg Leonov has participated many art exhibitions, such as All-Russian and foreign exhibitions and…

Antonio Fuertes was born in 1940 in Spain and is considered to be a self taught painter. His works are very mesmerizing and they are often presented with an Arabic Theme. He mostly paints and draws figures, people, especially male and female in the Alhambra in Granada and Moroccan landscapes. Ear…

Daniel Gerhartz is one of the very well known artists of modern times who skillfully and beautifully create the dramatic aura which consists of human form, personal relationship with a connection to landscapes and environment. His paintings are of lyrical quality so as to achieve a sense of world…

Kathy Fincher is one of the most popular pastel painting artists from Duluth and was born in an artistic family. She entered in the world of drawing, painting and illustration at a very young age.  She focuses on painting children using pastels. She is the proud recipient of the Quintessence award…

Alina Sibera is a well known painter from Poland who graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Faculty of Graphic Arts in Katowice. Alina Graduated in the year 1977 from book illustrations and graphic design planning. Alina Sibera Deals mainly with paintings, drawings and pastels.  Since t…

Allan R Banks is an American Painter, he hails from Florida and studied with two very fine artists, one of them is Richard F. Lack and other one is R H Ives Gammell. Allan’s spend his early earlier on working from nature and studying carefully the Masters which entailed copies from original masterp…

Who doesn't know about the Afghanistan’s Mona Lisa?? Yes, I am talking about the beautiful Green eyed Afghanistan Girl. The look of the enigmatic Afghan Girl green-eyed ice, considered the Mona Lisa of Afghanistan, she has truly become the icon of the plight of refugees around the world. Formi…

Vincent Giarrano is an American painter and was born in Buffalo, New York. He started to draw at an early age, teaching himself by studying other artists. Following his degree in Fine Art from State University, New York, 1982 and his Masters in Fine Art from Syracuse University, 1985, he chose to p…

So are you to my thoughts as food to life, Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground; And for the peace of you I hold such strife As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found. Now proud as an enjoyer, and anon Doubting the filching age will steal his treasure; Now counting best to…

Joe Bowler is an American painter as well as an illustrator. He was born in Forest Hills, New York. He began to draw when he was very young. He started drawing at the age of three. His first illustration for a national magazine was published by Cosmopolitan when he was nineteen. While he was workin…

Eduard Zentsik was born on 1975 in Estonia. Eduard is a Painter, photographer, graphic artist, designer, author of installations, performances and musical improvisations.  Eduard is an organizer of youth exhibitions and projects. For over years of creativity more than forty personal exhibitions an…

Nathaniel is an American painter who lives in Leavenworth, Washington. It’s  a small town in the foothills of the Cascades. He living in a place surrounded by forests, mountains, and rustic barns that continuously feed his artistic imagination. Nathaniel is often found painting the beauty of his su…

Michelle Murray is an American Painter who was born in Michigan and was raised in Ohio before coming to Alberta as a young adult. She is currently residing in Edmonton with her husband Sean and their family. She is the mother of 8 children and grandmother of 8. After early training in Commercial Ar…

Hocine Ziani was born in the year 1953, in Algeria and currently living and working in France.  He is a professional painter since 1978-1993 in Algeria, 1994-2009 in France. Founding member of the Central Army Museum, Algiers  Affiliated to the “Maison des Artistes”, Paris Member of the ADAGP, Par…

Robert McGinnis was born in Ohio, He is an America Born Illustrator and  was raised in Wyoming, Ohio. He became an apprentice at Walt Art Studio, Later he studied fine art at Ohio State University. After completing wartime service in the Merchant Marine he entered advertising and a chance meeting w…

Taner Ceylan was born in 1967 and is a Turkish born German photo-realist artist. Taner Ceylan studied painting Fine Arts Faculty at Mimar Sinan University from 1986 to 1991. He worked for Fine Arts Faculty of Yeditepe University between 2001-2003 as a lecturer and worked as an editor in chief of …

"My name is Jim Berberich , I am an independent glass painter. I have worked in the stained glass field for over 25 years. I opened my own studio in the early 90's designing, creating and restoring windows for church, residential and commercial clients. I took up glass painting and over th…

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-Natalie Italiano Awards 2009, Certificate of Excellence, Portrait Society of America 2007 to present, Fellowship, Studio Incamminati, Philadelphia, Pa 2006, Recognition Award for Contribution to the Arts, Haddonfield, NJ 2005, Portrait Society of America National Conference Scholarship…

I obtained my BA and MA degrees in Drawing and Painting, graduating with honors, from California State University at Fullerton. After receiving my MFA degree, I was the recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Project Award in the College of the Arts at California State University at Long Beach, and …

"My work covers a wide variety of subjects, but what remains consistent throughout is a deep love for beauty, especially as revealed by the human face. I am still young, and know little of human experience or tragedy… but when I paint, I feel my brightest hopes and deepest fears all at once. I…

AdrianMartinez is a nationally known artist based in Downingtown, Pennsylvania. His work, which includes portraits, still lifes, landscapes and historical paintings, combines a classical technique with an intensely emotional vision. His art has been shown in galleries across the United States and …

Enrique Donoso was born in Spain in 1963.

Christian Gaillard was born at Avignon in 1951 and began his career as an illustrator, in 1973. He lives and works in Paris and Arles. His first exhibition of bullfighting subjects was in Nimes in 1989 and it is the ambitious paintings of bullfights which have now made the name of the artist all o…

ABOUT ME- what differentiates one artist from another is their perspective—that unique take on the internal/external world that ideally pulls the viewer in. As an American artist living in Paris, I am a cultural hybrid straddling two vastly different civilizations, remaining somewhat alien in b…

"Born in Chile, November 8, 1936 in the town of Valparaíso, Claudio Bravo has lived and worked in Tangier, Morocco since 1972. In 1945, he joined the Colegio San Ignacio in Santiago, Chile and studied art in the studio of Miguel Venegas Cienfuentes in Santiago. In 1954, he had his first …

Wim Bals was born in 1973 in Beveren-Waas, Belgium. Later, graduated from Technicum Antwerpen, Graphic Design and graduated from the Academy Sint-Niklaas, Drawing. Wim Bals is currently living and working in Stekene, Belgium The paintings of Wim Bals are in many private collections throughout E…

Derek Harrison was born in 1983 and began pursuing art since he was able to hold a pencil. It all began as an innocent journey of exploration and the excitement that came with applying a vision to a piece of paper. In later years Derek was consistently dabbling in art, always drawing, painting, et…

Mitchell's  artistic passion is color, and she commands her palette with proficiency that unmistakably links her to Titian, Vermeer and Rembrandt. Through trained observation and creative vision, Mitchell fuses Impressionism and Realism into a unified language of the eye. Mitchell's' …

Michele Mitchell 's classical background is immediately evident in her Old Masters' palette, scrupulous brushwork, and in the compositional integrity of her portraits, still lifes and figurative paintings. Mitchell initially attended the University of Illinois only to realize the study of…

As you have already seen "Face Paintings" by Jim Warren. Now i have come up with his horse paintings. Enjoy :)

Philosophy of Art-"To hell with the rules, Paint what you like" Jim Warren

Javier  Arizabalo García   was born in San Juan de Luz in 1965. From 1983 to 1988 he studied fine arts at the School of Bilbao. He worked as a graphic designer from 1989 to 2004 and made incursions into photography and computer graphics. He teaches at the Municipal Academy of painting and drawing…

Steve Walker - 1961-2012

'' Antonio Sgarbossa started his artistic career at the age of twelve, attending an artistic ceramics workshop in Bassano. In 1971 he moved to Nouchatel, in Switzerland, where he lived for a few years.It was here with a group of European artists that he gave life to an art studio, named th…