Alyssa Monks, a contemporary take on traditional bathing women Born 1977 in Ridgewood, New Jersey, Alyssa Monks began oil painting as a child. She studied at The New School in New York and Montclair State University and earned her B.A. from Boston College in 1999. During this time she studied painting at Lorenzo deMedici in […]
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Franck de Las Mercedes, advice on dealing with criticism Words of advice from Franck de Las Mercedes: A fellow artist writes to ask how I deal with family criticism, indifference or disapproval of my art or life as an artist. Hm, okay…. I don’t know that my advice is the right one, but this is
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Reuben Allen, finding beauty & pain in art I work in all media, but I have never shown my works before or attempted to sell them. My profession is psychiatry and in that capacity I have treated thousands of people over the past thirty years. I spend my day listening and trying to understand my
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Brenda Hash, PSA, portraits in pastel Brenda Hash creates beautiful portraits in pastels Portrait Society of America Awards One of the leading portrait organizations in the United States is the Portrait Society of America. Its purpose is to foster and enhance an understanding of the practice, techniques and applications of traditional fine art portraiture and
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Cynthia Grilli, passionate portraits Cynthia Grilli has a very elegant site with her vibrant figurative paintings. About her portrait paintings she says: portraits and figuresPainting people has been a passion of mine for as long as I can remember. Discovering a person through paint is a powerful experience – what is revealed can sometimes be
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Roberto del Frate, bold paintings from Italy “The possible space of the dream into reality. One thing that I find very important is the choice of colors to put on the palette, because it is from this that everything comes at the end. I usually use five or six basic colors, and then variations and
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Les Satinover, beautiful men Les Satinover joins us with a Premium Listing from Scottsdale, Arizona. “A Realist Figurative Artist, with an emphasis on primarily the idealized physicality of male identity, expressing tactile sensuousness of figures positioned in luminous, atmospheric space. I seek to celebrate the sometimes frank but not transgressive disposition of light on form
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Tanya Fletcher, Metal Leaf Figure Paintings Metal Leaf Figure Paintings: This current body of work consists of life sized figures rendered in oil w/ silver leaf backgrounds on Baltic birch. An even layer of oil color is applied & then selectively removed with a cloth. The revealed grain of the wood suggests skin and/or contours
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