This Minnesotan originally comes from California. Brian Stewart’s excellent paintings are renown for “funk, junk and antiquity!” Floats my boat. . .
His first career was advertising, but twenty years ago fine art claimed him. Not only a fine studio painter, he is devoted to working plein air as well.
Stewart teaches painting too: his next gig [...]
Richard Oversmith finds the medium of oil on linen compatible with his approach to creation. The colors, edges, value and drawing all are in service of the specific mood he wants to achieve. The setting speaks directly to him while he limits himself to the fewest brushstrokes that will create a recognizable image.
Oversmith seems to [...]
A rambler and a ‘gambler’ is maritime artist Janne Matter, now living in Phoenix but with both Atlantic and Pacific roots as well. She especially is well known for her paintings of classic and wooden boats in oil and acrylic.
You can read a lot about Matter’s personal journey into art on her website, concerning [...]
Monterey Boats, 24 x 18, oil on board
Did you ever meet a young genius? This Belgian-born artist Walter Georis began painting at the age of nine in southern California. During his teens, he had a further flowering of his creative gifts for photography and music.
Monterey Sail Boat and Pier, 52 x [...]
Martin Fliglinski’s beautiful oil paintings are admirable! I especially like his subtle atmospheric effects: glowing sky, magical fogginess.
As Figlinski notes about Shrimp Boat in a Fog, “The mornings here have been foggy lately, mostly due the unseasonably warm air coming in contact with the cold waters of winter. The resulting atmosphere often creates [...]
Growing up in the Northern California hills, this plein air [open air] artist began painting landscapes in oil. Although he continued to study art and his medium, his main career was as a civil engineer, serving in this role for the US Air Force as well as for a time as a civilian in airport [...]
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