Some nice drawings..

Aaron Holliday, 44 years old, was born in New York and was raised in Los Angeles by his grandmother. Aaron began drawing at the age of 13 due to loneliness. He gradually withdrew from people and became so obsessed with drawing that his mental health was affected and he was hospitalized for three years at the Los Angeles General Hospital. He considers those three years the best time in his life.

Nice street painting with chalk, an Italian tradition since the 16th century.

With over 95,000 in attendance at the festa, Chalk LaStrada in 2004 was very well attended and received much media attention.
Chalk La Strada is now planning a bigger and better event for our 7th anniversary year, more street surface area has been added for both artist squares and for the Little Italy Festa presented by PRECIOUS CHEESE. In addition to our chalking activities, the festa will have three stages for entertainment, more Italian food, beer and wine garden, a bocce ball tournament, and an Alpha-Romero car show.

Born and raised in Wuhan, China, Claire Ye first became passionate with drawing and painting at the age of five. Throughout her childhood she was often reprimanded for paying more attention to her art than to her studies. By the age of ten, she had taught herself the traditional art of Chinese brush painting.

Her continued passion toward her art convinced her parents to hire private training under the renowned artist Hong Xu Guang at the age of twelve.

Some of his works are very nice.

Blake Flynn has been practicing art since the time he could first grasp a crayon; however, having an aversion to starving, he embarked on a long-term plan to first ply his design skills in the engineering field. He graduated from the University of Washington in 1984 where he also studied Art, Art History and Architecture. Further training included coursework in drawing at the Academy of Realist Art in Seattle.

At the end of 1999 he left a successful career in aerospace engineering to become a full-time artist. Since that time he has had a number of solo and group exhibitions, been invited into a number of juried shows, won several awards, and has had his work featured in Amazing Stories magazine and on the cover of 48° North magazine. His work is included in a number of local, national and international private collections.

The Walters Art Museum is internationally renowned for its collection, which was amassed substantially by two men, William and Henry Walters. The collection presents an overview of world art from pre-dynastic Egypt to 20th-century Europe, and counts among its many treasures Greek sculpture and Roman sarcophagi; medieval ivories and Old Master paintings; Art Deco jewelry and 19th-century masterpieces. In fall 2001, the Walters celebrated the Grand Reopening of its largest building, which underwent a dramatic three-year renovation. The renovation allows many objects to be on view for the first time, and presents the collection in a dramatic new light.

These paitings are looking really good, especially if you are a S.F. fan.

Doug Chaffee is one of a handful of artists farsighted enough to realize the future of the human race is in the stars. A product of Cold-War science fiction, Chaffee turned his energies to the technological. He became the head of IBM’s Art Department during the early years of the space race. His career quickly skyrocketed as one of the leading artists not only in his genre, but of his generation.

Chaffee began illustrating space related subjects during a time when the space program was young and at a time when few artists knew how the Earth looked from space. While the “Space Age” was in its infancy, his work was winning national awards in shows relating to the space program and in the aerospace field. Several years before the Viking probes reached Mars, he illustrated a National Geographic article about the Red Planet, authored by Carl Sagan.

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Sand As Medium: a sand installation/sculpture/medium concept created by Jean-Pierre Hébert. A ball etches the sand, pulled invisibly by concealed means. This quiet, interactive installation can create beautiful sand etchings for the beholder enjoyment and for the spiritually inclined meditations.

These paintings are made in a very original style.

Isabelle Plante was born in 1949 at PAU (FRANCE). From her earliest childhood she was drawn to painting and drawing, and won a poster competition at the age of fifteen. This decided her to make publicity her career.

At the age of seventeen, she entered ArtSchool, then continued her studies at the Ecole des arts Decoratifs in Paris.

For ten years she worked in creative publicity, and at the same time painted numerous pictures.

In 1974 she held her first exhibition in TAHITI.

The great Boris Vallejo has to be presented on this website. You know him already , but if you don’t, take some time to view his art.

Born in Lima, Peru, Boris attended the National School of Fine Arts in his native country before immigrating to the United States in 1964.
He has since done a great volume of work for the Fantasy field, having worked for virtually every major publishing house with a science fiction/fantasy line. Boris has also illustrated for album covers, video box art and motion picture advertising.

His mastery of oil painting is immediately and abundantly clear to anyone who looks at his work, and his classic sense is as much an homage to the old masters as it is to anyone contemporaneously working in the Fantasy genre.

For sheer dauntless bravura, few have ever pushed the limits as does Boris with his beautiful maidens and fearsome monsters.