Fantastic drawings!

Laurie Lipton was born in New York. She was the first person to graduate from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pennsylvania with a Fine Arts Degree in Drawing (with honours). She has lived in Holland, Belgium, Germany and France and has made her home in London since 1986.

If you like dogs, here are some fantastic drawings!

Top Dog Art represents the joint efforts and aspirations of the husband and wife team of Alan Hecht and Evelyn Morris Hecht. This aspiration is best expressed in our mission which is “to share Evelyn’s art with the world and to aid animal rescue efforts, starting with dogs.”

Evelyn Morris Hecht, a basically self taught designer and artist, spent 15 years in the New York fashion industry. Her experience includes designing for private clients, several years of designing under her own label EVELYN MORRIS, and a variety of positions in established fashion houses. In 1989 she became interested in animal rights issues and decided to change her life direction based on this. It started coming together in 1993 when she rescued her first dog Ollie, a 2 year old abused Bichon Frise. Later, her attention turned to Greyhounds, an incredibly sweet and most neglected breed. Evelyn started using her talent as an artist to do dog portraits, with the intention of someday, somehow turning them into a business that could contribute to the cause of abused animals.

Sergei Aparin is a great artists and I love his pictures!

Born in Voronezh, Russia, in 1961.

Graduated from the Art Institute, Voronezh, Russia, in 1981.

From 1991 lives and works in Belgrade.

In the period from 1981 to 1991 he has exhibited his works at numerous group exhibitions of young painters in St. Petersburg, Kiev and Moscow.

Graeme Stevenson does amazing art! I love his paitings because many of them look so real… like photos…

Born June 29th, 1958 in New South Wales, Australia, Graeme Stevenson began painting and studying animals and even at a young age had a tremendous fascination with the world around him. He began breeding Australian Parrots, and in his teen years took up the ancient sport of falconry.

As his interest in art began to grow, he used the birds that surrounded him-his pets- as subjects for his paintings. After obtaining his pilots license, he began to explore the vast areas of Australia, photographing, sketching, and eventually painting the exotic animals of this land. His reputation as an artist began to grow and his one-man and two-man exhibitions were greatly successful. Graeme then began traveling to other parts of the world to study his subjects and to display his work. Africa, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, Europe, U.K., U.S.A., Mexico, Canada, Alaska and the Middle East were some of the places to which he ventured, receiving offers from publishers who produced his works in limited edition. In 1988 he was commissioned to produce all of the paintings for the book The Atlas of Parrots, one of the largest editions of its size in the world.

Graeme eventually decided to turn his imagination and his art ability in a new direction. Now living permanently in the United States, he is able to study the many varied animals of America and to produce a series of paintings that enable him to explore different ideas and to present work that also has the ability to tell a story of the subjects that he paints. He also paints fantasy and romantic scenes of mother and child.

Originalbirdart.com (Mill House Gallery) was launched in March, 1998, to help bird and wildlife artists market their work on the Internet. The Internet is open 24hrs/day, 365 days/yr. (unlike localized art galleries and shows), allowing for a larger audience of fans and collectors to become acquainted with and to conveniently purchase the artists’ work. Originalbirdart does not charge the artists for setting up their work, only a small commission which is about half what a typical gallery charges.

I love this Japanese style…

Although Chinese methods of color printing were known, they were too expensive to apply to ukiyo-e. Japanese print-making was largely a commercial enterprise which aimed to produce cheap household decoration for ordinary people. At first prints were black and white illustrations in books but when cheap vegetable dyes appeared, color became possible.

Print production was a collaborative effort. The publisher conceived and commissioned the work, financed its production, managed its sales and distribution and generally coordinated the efforts of all involved. An artist designed the print. A separate calligrapher was used if words accompanied the illustration. Then there would be block-maker, a printer and a paper-maker.

The artist supplied his design as an ink line drawing with a wash to symbolize the colors. A student would make a copy on thin, transparent paper. The publisher would secure thick, seasoned cherry blocks of which both sides were used. The copy would be laid on the block and the block-maker would cut around the lines. Then he would clear the wood in between, leaving the lines in high relief making a ‘key-block.’ Ink was rubbed on the raised lines and proofing paper placed over the block. Then the block-maker rubbed the paper to create a ‘pull’ or copy of the image. These ‘pulls’ were used to make other blocks for colors. Each of these blocks would be carved.

Great paintings from Eric Drooker.

Eric Drooker is a third generation New Yorker, born and raised on Manhattan Island. His paintings are seen on covers of The New Yorker, and numerous book, CD and magazine covers. He’s the award winning author of several books, including Flood! A Novel in Pictures, Blood Song: A Silent Ballad, and Illuminated Poems, with Beat poet Allen Ginsberg.

His art hangs in many collections, both public and private, and has been exhibited internationally. Mr. Drooker gives frequent slide lectures at colleges and universities.

Wondreful!

Michael Cheval was born in 1966. He graduated from Asgabat School of Fine Art with a degree in Fine Art. Since 1998 Michael is a member of the National Arts Club, New York, NY. Since 2001 Michael is a member of the Society for Art of Imagination, London, UK. Resident of New York.

For the last five years Michael has participated in twenty-two group exhibitions and twelve one-man art shows. In 2000 Michael became a winner of the Exhibition Committee Award on Annual Exhibition in National Arts Club, New York, NY. In 2002 and 2003 he had win a privilege to participate in an Annual Exhibition of Society for Art of Imagination, London, UK.

Great art by Michael Kuznetsov!

Michael Kuznetsov was born in 1964. In 1985 he graduated from an evening art school and, in 1988, the philological faculty of Omsk State University, with a theoretical research paper “The Simultaneous Principle of the Spatial Construction of the Text”. The synthesis of philological and art education has effected the formation of the style of the artist, which he considers as “neoromantism”. In his painting, Michael Kuznetsov attempts to overlap literary and visual metaphors, use picturesque and narrative citations and incorporate elements and layers of space surreally. There are both fancy characters and elements in the space of his paintings. Michael Kuznetsov’s paintings explore four distinct areas in depth and intensity:sea landscapes, still lifes, portraits and what the artist calls “magic landscapes.” The four paths run parallel interweaving on a regular basis. Among the authors and artists which have influenced Michael Kuznetsov’s painting are Hermann Hesse, Umberto Eco, John Fowles, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Salvador Dali, Leonardo, the Church and many others.

I love this style! Too bad that the images on the site are so small…

Bob Eggleton is a successful science fiction, fantasy and landscape artist. Winner of 9 Hugo Awards,12 Chesley Awards, The 1999 Skylark Award and 2 Locus Awards his art can be seen on many magazines and books.