Lori Rita, powerful self portraits I am a contemporary figurative painter. My work is a journey to record a moment caught in time. I begin with an idea and let the painting evolve, having no deadline. My inspiration is from real life and the people I meet. I work from photographs I have taken, not […]
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Haley Hasler, bold self portraits Portrait as Tamer The self-portrait confronts the viewer with an outward representation of the inner self. Here is the exterior as seen by the interior. The self-portrait as a character introduces a further element. While the self-portrait implies that the artist is showing us the truth, a representation of the
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Tom Montan, a lovely new website Tom’s new site viewed on full screen. Tom’s new site viewed on my iPhone. New Website Okay it has taken a few weeks but I am finally ready for primetime. After many generous emails from a new found advisor in Joe Ragey from Foothill College. I was reminded that
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Bo Bakker, studio visit to portrait painter, Amsterdam After visiting family in South Africa, we traveled to Utrecht, and then Amsterdam. We climbed the steep, narrow and practically vertical wooden stairs to the tiny Airbnb apartment we will stay for the next three nights, quickly unpacked, got plugged into the internet, caught up with a
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Peter Broitman, lawyer turned artist Peter grew up in New York where he went to college and law school. After he received his law degree, Peter moved to Chicago and worked for 31 years as a lawyer prosecuting employers for labor law violations. Peter lives on the north side of Chicago with his wife Amy.
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Sheri Bredeson, drawings & portraits in graphite Graphite, charcoal on paper I have always marveled at the human form. As a child I was obsessed with ballet and all things Degas and Renoir, and my early paintings of dancers were heavily influenced by them. In these works I cared quite a bit more about the
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Alejandro Pasquale, intimate drawings from Argentina I feel that the fact of drawing is merely an instinctive reflection … maybe the consequence of a certain point of view of the world. This action and form of language has been with me since childhood, exploring different ways to exhibit in two-dimensional form the facts and passages
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Rebecca Carron, contemporary portrait painting, Belgium Rebecca Carron is a Belgian, Flemish painter, of what she calls “fine art with balls”. Emotions, vitality, atmosphere is what her paintings are about. Some paintings and series, such as her cityscapes and some of her landscapes, are more restrained. Most often she tries to find a balance between
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