Tag: oil

Featured Artist | Vian Borchert

Featured Artist | Vian Borchert Germantown, MD https://www.vianborchert.com @vianborchert Bio: Vian Borchert is an award winning contemporary expressionist artist. V. Borchert, an established artist has exhibited in many group and solo exhibitions nationally within the US and internationally. The National Gallery of Art in Amman, Jordan has her artwork in their permanent collection. Vian is […]

Featured Artist | Lauri Minas

Fine artist Lauri Wedgworth grew up in a small farm town west of Phoenix, Arizona. Surrounded by farmers, dust, and excessive heat, she developed her creative side to keep herself entertained—and to survive. She holds a B.F.A. in graphic design and a M.B.A from Arizona State University. While she learned the basic concepts of art and design in school, over the years she has taught herself drawing, perspective, oil painting and airbrush techniques. Famous artists that have influenced her art include: Edward Hopper, Patrick Nagel, Norman Rockwell, Wayne Thiebaud, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec and Vincent Van Gogh.

Featured Artist | Emily Thompson

Emily Thompson’s paintings document the ordinary, the everyday, the disappearing, the nostalgic, the abandoned and the identity of the American landscape. Inspiration comes from her surroundings – urban and industrial scenery, roadside and rural locations and vintage signage and typography. Her work is about design, atmosphere, mood, color, the application of paint and texture. Thompson attended the prestigious High School of Art & Design and earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York. She is a nationally-recognized, award-winning artist.

10 Year Anniversary Issue | Inside VOL 1

Artist Portfolio Magazine 10 Year Anniversary Issue VOL 1 Take a moment to check out VOL 1 of 5 from our 10 Year Anniversary Issue. Some fantastic art can be found in these pages. Get your copy of VOL1 FREE digital version $20 Print VOL 1 Cover Artist Allan Gorman West Orange, NJ allangorman.com @allangormanart […]

Artist Portfolio Magazine 10 Year Anniversary Issue

Artist Portfolio Magazine’s 10 Year Anniversary Issue is here! Over 300 pages of art broken down into 6 issues. Free digital download or $75 for master volume and $20 for each volume 1-5 (print version). Master Volumes 1-5 contains over 300 pages of art and all artists of volumes 1-5 (listed below). Artists in Volume […]

Featured Artist | Michelle Mercier

I’m inspired by color, marks, and marrying materials in fresh ways to discover what emerges. From there, I distract myself in any way possible while I finish a piece, so that my mind doesn’t interfere with the process. Nothing good ever comes of that.

Bio: Michelle Mercier is an abstract painter living in western Massachusetts. Focused primarily on large-scale commissions for collectors, Michelle has also taught adult painting classes and participated in Open Studios at the Mill in Holliston, Massachusetts since 2014.

Featured Artist | Pearl Mintzer

Every moment should be a celebration of life. Our senses and our emotions can put us in touch with the magic and beauty that is around us. That is what I try to portray through my art.

My joyful, playful, whimsical images come alive with vibrant colors. They evoke the most positive emotions. Feelings of Love, Laughter and Joy. Painting is my happy place. I try to evoke happy feelings in my viewers

Featured Artist | Barbara Lawrence

Barbara Lawrence | Santa Cruz, CA Barbara Lawrence was born in San Francisco and has spent most of her life in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her B. A. degree from San Francisco State University and an M. A. degree from San Jose State University. She taught Life drawing and Advanced Painting at […]

Featured Artist | Allan Gorman

Allan Gorman | West Orange, NJ @allangormanart During the pandemic I have been making a series of paintings that explore plays of light and shadow in empty spaces. Although it was completely intuitive, and a logical extension of some of my earlier works, I feel the paintings evoke the poignancy of our forced solitary existence […]

Featured Artist | Bux Dhyne

Bux Dhyne | Grand Rapids, MI @blacklacecupcakes Biography: Bux has a BFA in Illustration (and a Minor in Traditional Photography) from Kendall College of Art and Design that was completed in 2007. They have worked in the design, art, and illustration industries since then. They are a feminine head of household figure to three children, […]

Featured Artist | Susan Lizotte

Susan Lizotte was born in Los Angeles, and adopted at two months old. When she was one, she moved with her adopted parents to Bronxville in Westchester County, NY; they moved back to L.A. when she was 14. She earned her B.A. in Theater Arts at UCLA –discovering her love for art and art history through a class at the end of her senior year. While still in college, she worked part time designing men’s custom dress shirts, and went on to start her own business designing bespoke shirts and suits for men, and ran it for fifteen years. After finding and meeting her biological mother – an artist –Lizotte finally decided to pursue her love of art and painting. She resides in Los Angeles, balancing her studio practice with life with her husband, four children, and family pets including a peacock.

Featured Artist | Magdalena Wozniak Melissourgaki

Mandalena Wozniak Melissourgaki was born in Warsaw, the capital city of Poland but now she lives and works in Crete, Greece. From an early age, it was obvious that her biggest love is painting and she started participate to a lot of art competitions. She studied Fine Art at the Warsaw School of Art and then went on to get another degree in Multimedia Graphics. Trained in graphics art, she does illustrations, book covers, art installation and animation. A self-motivated and passionate artist, she paints in a variety of mediums- oils, pastels, charcoals, and works on various creative projects.