Leo Balzano – 10 Art Competition

Title My Mountain Medium Seragraph Size 8 1/2" X 11"

Artist Portfolio Magazine’s 10 Art Competition Leo Balzano – Nashua, NH I am a self-taught artist and my work is both a passion and a profound source of personal fulfillment. My approach is spontaneous and intuitive, yielding uniquely imaginative explorations of color, composition, and line. The materials used in my work have become tools for […]

Johnny ESJ. Otilano – 10 Art Competition

Title My Old Guitar Series#8 Medium Oil on Panel Size 3'X4'

Artist Portfolio Magazine’s 10 Art Competition Johnny ESJ. Otilano – Pasadena, CA Instagram Johnny E. SJ. Otilano/Visual Artist, Singer Songwriter I’m a self-taught artist born in the Philippines, a country rich in culture and history. I graduated from Feati University with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, major in Advertising Design. In 1989, I made […]

John Schaeffer – 10 Art Competition

Title Generations Medium Acrylic Size 12 x 36 x 1.5

Artist Portfolio Magazine’s 10 Art Competition John Schaeffer – La Grange, TX After receiving a BS in Commercial Art from Southwest Texas State University, John taught art, drafting, photography, and journalism in an inner-city high school in San Antonio, Texas. While in college, he decided to embrace abstract painting and continued that direction most of […]

D Richard Ishmael – 10 Art Competition

Title Linear Time Cyclical Time Medium oil Size 30 x 6

Artist Portfolio Magazine’s 10 Art Competition D Richard Ishmael – Zavalla, TX I am interested in depicting science and art work together. The painting “From Coal to Cancer Therapy” is a hexapytch showing coal on canvass to distilling the coal to make anthraquinone to showing the steps to an intermediate finally to the last step […]

Vincenzo Corrado – 10 Art Competition

Title Images of the Subconscious Medium Digital Size 18866 x 10179 pixel

Artist Portfolio Magazine’s 10 Art Competition Vincenzo Corrado – Roma, Italy Through the effect of mergers and texture, V. Corrado creates materials and transparencies forms which result in symbols and allegories. He bases the language of communication on the suggestion and surprise; factors that capture the observer and lead him to interpret the message. His […]

Rone Del – 10 Art Competition

Title Alexis Medium oil Size 18x24

Artist Portfolio Magazine’s 10 Art Competition Rone Del – Thomasville, PA Instagram Viewing good art sustains and inspires me. My creations come from a zone inside my spirit buried deep, permeable to impressions, subconscious nudges and taps. I want to take something and press it through the strainer that is my mind and make it […]

Mike Franchitto – 10 Art Competition

Title Baby Boy Medium Pencil Size 11 x 14

Artist Portfolio Magazine’s 10 Art Competition Mike Franchitto – Glendale, AZ I have been interested in the arts and crafts since grade school. I am kind of self taught reading magazines and have taken various art courses at schools and privately. I currently paint custom color graphics on auto’s and motorcycles now and then, but […]

Adi Zur – 10 Art Competition

Title Chemistry Medium mixed media Size 38 x 48 inches

Artist Portfolio Magazine’s 10 Art Competition Adi Zur – Vaughan, Canada Instagram My paintings reflect my interest in ancient knowledge. I am moved by the notion of a “connector”-an umbilical cord – which joins us to knowledge harnessed in the past and propels us into the future. It is the cord, the connecting lines, that […]

Virginia Praschnik – 10 Art Competition

Title "THE STORY IN THEIR EYES I" Medium Oil on Canvas/ Spatulla Size 96cm X 96 cm

Artist Portfolio Magazine’s 10 Art Competition Virginia Praschnik – Miami Beach, FL This series of oil in canvas, “The Story In Their eyes”, aims to give voice to the pain some children around the world steel feel today, expressed in their eyes. This series is 11 painting entirely created by spatula.

Renee Kroeker – 10 Art Competition

Title Self-Portrait Medium Oil on Wood Panel Size 29.75x24

Artist Portfolio Magazine’s 10 Art Competition Renee Kroeker – Stanten Island, NY The spark that ignited my work over the past four years was the (re)-reading of the book “Women Who Run With Wolves” by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D. While engaging in the idea of a “Wild Woman” that lies within all females as an […]

Matteo Lollini – 10 Art Competition

Title Minus Three Medium Oil Size 44 x 105 cm

Artist Portfolio Magazine’s 10 Art Competition Matteo Lollini – Bologna, Italy Managing social media for a living, web surfing for passion, I love communication, images, texts and their interaction. Painting for me is a way to explore ideas and understand things happening around me. In terms of aesthetics, I’m interested in the philosophy of error: […]

Jen Kelsey – 10 Art Competition

Title Thunder Love Medium Acrylic, Charcoal, Paper, Pencil, Size

Artist Portfolio Magazine’s 10 Art Competition Jen Kelsey – Denver, CO Instagram   ARTIST BIO – JEN KELSEY Jen Kelsey is an Abstract painter whose influences and favorite artists include Hans Hoffman, Charles Duchamp, Pablo Picasso and Frida Kahlo. Kelsey has a BA in Art with an emphasis in Painting and Photography from Ohio University. […]