Julie Ford Oliver | Still Life

An illustrator for more than 25 years, I returned to fine art after my last child graduated from college.

I currently paint in a variety of media allowing the subject matter to guide my choices.

I work out of a spacious studio situated next to my house in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and another studio on Main Street, downtown Las Cruces.

Ivailo Petrov, 1965 | Bulgaria

L'artista Bulgaro Ivaylo Petrov è nato a Sofia, in Bulgaria.

Si è laureato alla Scuola di Belle Arti di Sofia nel 1984-1990 ed al 1995 ha studiato presso l'Università Bulgara di Belle Arti.

Insegna all'Università di Architettura dal 1996.

Ha tenuto numerose mostre in Italia, Spagna, Austria, Belgio, Germania, USA, Repubblica Ceca.

Thomas Sully ~ Portrait painter

Thomas Sully 1783-1872 was an British-born American painter, one of the finest U.S. portrait painters of the 19th century. Sully’s parents moved to the United States in 1792, settling in Charleston, S.C. He was a pupil of Gilbert Stuart in Boston (1807) and of Benjamin West in London (1809) and was influenced by the portrait artist Sir Thomas Lawrence. After 1810 he made Philadelphia his home, although in 1838 he visited London to paint a full-length portrait of the young Queen Victoria for the Society of the Sons of St. George of Philadelphia. His masterpiece in portraiture is “Col. Thomas Handasyd Perkins” (1831–32; Boston Athenaeum); his best known painting is “The Passage of the Delaware” (1819; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
Sully was an industrious painter who worked rapidly; he left about 2,000 portraits, a number of miniatures, and more than 500 subject and historical pictures. His paintings are elegant and romantically warm, emphasizing an economy of form and of colour, but his later work suffered from the sentimentality of the mid-19th century. /Encyclopædia Britannica/

Pat Brennan | Surreal Fantasy

Having been a traditional artist all my life, in the last two years I have discovered a great affinity for digital artwork in all its forms. A gift from my daughter of a computer complete with software started me on a path of discovery.

In March 2006, I joined Deviant Art. Being a part of this community encouraged me to further my knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter. I now work with a digital brush as easily as a real one.

William Fettes Douglas (1822-1891)

Pittore Scozzese autodidatta, Sir William Fettes Douglas fu direttore della National Gallery of Scotland nel 1877 e cinque anni dopo, presidente della Royal Scottish Academy.

Sir William Fettes Douglas nacque a Edimburgo nel 1822 e ricevette la sua prima educazione alla Southern Academy e successivamente alla High School.

Suo padre, il signor James Douglas, contabile della Banca Commerciale, era lui stesso un artista dilettante di una certa abilità, e fu in accordo con il suo desiderio che suo figlio entrò al servizio della Banca, servizio in cui continuò per dieci anni.

Tristan Elwell | Pop Surrealist illustrator

Tristan Elwell è un artista, illustratore ed insegnante Americano.

Nato e cresciuto a New York City dove si è diplomato alla High School of Music and Art ha poi proseguito gli studi alla School of Visual Arts dove si è laureato nel 1990.

I dipinti di Tristan Elwell sono apparsi su centinaia di copertine di libri, giochi di carte collezionabili, copertine di riviste e campagne pubblicitarie internazionali.

Frank Markham Skipworth | A dancing girl, 1889

Frank Markham Skipworth (1854 Castor, Lincolnshire - 1929 London) was a very well known painter of portraits, genre and historical subjects.

He studied for two years at the Lincoln School of Art, for three years at the Royal Academy Schools, under Sir Edward John Poynter (1836-1919)) and finally in 1883-84 was a pupil of the famous Adolphe William Bouguereau in Paris.

Frank Markham Skipworth | Zora, a Dancing Girl, 1889