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Oh, I love looking at all your links. Some wonderful artists =)
Add me to the list of people who love El’s work. When I’m more financially secure, I’ll be begging her for a commission.
My favorite artists come from two sources: comic books and architecture. I love comic book pencilers Terry Moore, Frank Cho, and Andy Kubert, and colorist JD Smith (wish he’d color for books with good stories and clothed women >.<). I won’t link to any of them because of nudity.
Architects, well, many, but quickly pulling well-known names out of the air: Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, Richard Meier, and Renzo Piano (not for the pompidou!).
oh, also wanted to add Daniel Merriam http://www.danielmerriam.com
can’t afford any of his prints, but i get his calendar every year.Wow, his work is amazing! Reminds me very much of another one of my favorites, Michael Parkes. 🙂
Besides Melody, Jennifer and Arlla I really like Wyland http://wyland.com/, Jim Warren http://www.jimwarren.com/site/ and Walfrido http://www.walfrido.com/. And I have a soft spot for Norman Rockwell.
machineguts wrote:Wow, his work is amazing! Reminds me very much of another one of my favorites, Michael Parkes. 🙂
http://www.theworldofmichaelparkes.com/html/home.asp
Yeah, his stuff is pretty cool too. Just would like to see more clothes on the women… lol, I know, I’m such a prude! 😳 Though I’m sure my husband wouldn’t mind having that kind of art up around the house, haha!
I won’t look at the links….I won’t look at the links….noooooo! 😈 I spend way too much as it is! 😆
Namifer’s (yay!) work shares a wall with a couple of Michael Whelan’s pieces. I love Jonathon Earl Bowser…I have only one, though.
For fun, refrigerator magnet/bookmark type stuff I enjoy peicasaart and Tigerpixie. I have almost all of Tigerpixie’s little 3D statues, too. Very fun pieces and reasonably priced. Nene Thomas fairies are nice, too…I have a couple of shirts and a print.
For jewelry, I just love BellaLili…Skulls and hippocamps and steampunk, oh my! I have three of her pieces and they are just wonderful. 😀
I really love Scott Gustafson, James C. Christensen, Greg Olsen, Robert Duncan and Hala Wittwer. Then, of course, there are the classics; DaVinci, Michelangelo, Monet, Manet and anything done by the pre-Raphaelites
twindragonsmum 😀
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Oh, I should have mentioned that the Michael Parkes site isn’t work safe! Nudity paintings. 😳
But I collect his animal paintings. 😀 LOL!Remember the pug necklace I mentioned Jen of Parrish Relics was making me? Well, she just sent me final pics and is mailing it off today! I can’t wait to get it!
John Howe, Hayao Miyazaki, Stephanie Pui-Mun Law, Brom, Brian Froud, and Brett Booth. I also have a prints by TSR artists Clyde Caldwell and Jeff Easley. There is a local artist named Marrus who I also like. Some of her works are a bit bizarre and a little edgy, but she has a piece named “Soul Owning” that I absolutely had to have!
John Howe.
http://www.john-howe.com/There are many other people who do fantastic artwork, but being artist and art teacher myself I over the years got another way of looking at artists, and John impressed me most. Its not just the way he works with watercolors and inks and the fab works he did for LOTR, but also how he talks about what he does, how he helps others, the whole aura around his works.
To me he represents something I want to reach some day, to find my place with my artworks, not just in the market, but to be at peace with my works, which is the feeling I get whenever I browse his pieces. I mean, he himself could pose in his works and he’d totally fit (I swear they could have put him in the background of the LOTR movies and he’d have melted in). I was very fortunate to see one of his exhibits live in Saint Ursanne, in 2007. An exhibit which wasnt just “framed on the wall” but a little ancient city where his work blended in. IMO the best exhibit I ever saw.
So, without wanting to draw the same/same style/subject, I do keep saying to myself : “I wanna be a John Howe when I grow up”, which puts him topmost on my favourit artist list.Another artist I adore is:
Mark Crash McCreery
(sample: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3642/3368813790_ac71e73e41.jpg?v=0 )
he’s rarely online (I think he has no homepage), but he is the concept artist of Jurassic Park and it was him who got me to do artwork for real.another artist I adore for his scale and lifelikeness is Ron Mueck
http://christianrichgoods.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/ron-mueck9.jpgVirginie Ropars
http://vropars.free.fr/mainENG.htm
mainly for her dark sculpture and the detail and touch of originality to them. Beware, she has some dark pieces.Nemo-ramjet, also known as the Snaiad creator
http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs13/f/2007/020/a/6/The_Best_of_Snaiad_by_nemo_ramjet.jpg
he deserves a mention because, while I dont like all of his creatures or their forms (being more traditional fantasy and less sci-fi), I am always again amazed at what he actually made up and how he follows plausible, biological laws while many other artists, including me, call random dragon variations “original beasts”. The in-depthness of his work is something I am wishing to achieve someday with my creatures.Daniel Rieser
http://www.dragon-palace.ch/
not just for being another swiss doing dragons, but mainly because… he does that with pottery clay. I gave up pottery clay in 2000 because it was to heavy and fragile. Looking at the size and the detail in person(King of Power piece) and feeling the passion behind his doing (most pieces take him 1-2 years of daily a few hours scraping details) is simply overwheming.Kim Graham
http://www.kimgrahamstudios.com/gallery.html
for amazing sculpture work and her recent digileggs rock.Beth Cavener
http://www.followtheblackrabbit.com/(beware of some non PG13 pieces, NSFW)
I’m a sketcher at heart, and often pieces are “worked to death”, something I’ve seen over years but also learned from some of my great (cough… greater teachers… dohh….1 out of 15)teachers. She IMO got the best out of the medium clay. While I adore Daniel Riesers detail I think Beths pieces could not be more full of life, even if they’d be real. I like her choice of subjects, usually if its pottery its always humans or the “higher pets”. Goats and hares, in their non fluffy furry form, are very beautiful. And she does not just do pin-ups but pieces that stirr you and make you think.And last but not least, the awesome Melody. She’s been mentioned many times already, but what I like best about her is the presence of her works and how all the anatomyvolumes are perfectly lifelike and tight (meaning, full of energy). And, just as John Howe and Daniel Rieser she’s down to earth, she’s very famous but she’s still there being an awesome person. I’m saying this because it means a lot to me, many famed artists get blinded by fame. IMO its also what makes the artwork wonderful is the soul shining through, the imprint of the hands that made it.
I really like Diane Ozdamar on DA
http://dianae.deviantart.com/gallery/
Don Lanning has amazing sculptwork, often utilized in movies and film
Hildebrandth Bros., Salvador Dali,Leonardo DaVinci….
Every act matters.No matter how small💞
(Wanted......Brimstone Lap)
Male Hearth....one day🤞Dream on.Brian and Wendy Froud:
http://www.worldoffroud.com/index.htmlMichael Whelan:
http://www.michaelwhelan.com/Michael Parkes (we have 3 of his large prints) and yes, there are naked boobies 🙂
Michael Pape (totally amazing wildlife art):
http://theartofmichaelpape.com/Nick Brandt (amazing wildlife photography):
http://www.younggalleryphoto.com/photography/brandt/brandt.htmlBrom:
http://www.bromart.com/David Mack:
http://www.davidmack.net/Bobby Chiu (and he’s from Toronto):
http://www.imaginismstudios.com/I could keep going and going…
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