5- Robb Woods

Woods uses color and warm colors to capture the vastness of the Arizona desert.  Looking in on his pictures is light looking from atop one of the stones structures.  The way the light and shadows fall helps the illusion.  The colors also give it a fantastical appeal.

5- Melinda Jennings

Though i said that sometimes realism is boring, I know it takes real skill.  Jennings captures picturesque buildings with intricate details and tries to capture the natural lighting of the scene.

5- Martha Saduek

 

Unlike most of the artists at this gallery, when Saduek paints her landscapes, she uses colors that takes away from the realism of the pictures but does not take away from the actually picture.  It gives her works a dreamy feel.  Often the colors she uses emphasize aspects of the picture more then a more realistic landscape would.  I think its boring when you copy everything exactly.  That's what photos are for.

5- James LaCasse

 

I went on a google search of Deanne Sabeck from my previous five artists and somehow it led me to the Spiritwind Gallery where a small group of artists sell their work.  On of them was LaCasse where he sells bronze sculptures.  The ones I preferred were the ones the told the story of the apple from the tree of knowledge and Adam.  It related to me personally because I looked at the same story for my AP concentration. 

5- Tessa Stone

Hanna Is Not A Boy's Name

Her Deviantart

 

I remember browsing DA and finding her comic.  The way she had her layout for her colorful panels and the unique typography combined with a brilliant storyline and character designs make her comic come alive.  I aspire to be a comic artist as talented as her and able to give great characters life.

4- Deanne Sabeck

 

On my search for more light sculptors, I found Deanne Sabeck.  Her works utilize the color and light in fluid strokes made of glass and other media.  Her mandalas are light show as beautiful as the Northern Lights.

4- Lee Lawrie

I'm a fan of both art deco and mythology; so the statue of Atlas in New York has always caught my mind.  The story of the titan Atlas holding up the world has always been a powerful image to me.  Lawrie captured this fantastical strength and magnificence while still utilizing the sharp art deco style.

4- Olafur Eliasson

 

I decided to search for other types of sculpture.  Light sculpture caught my eye the most, especially Eliasson's work because of the atmosphere he creates with light, along with the other techniques he utilizes to create a complete experience.  For example, "The Weather Project" (seen above) not only has lights but mist.

4- Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

 

I remember learning about "La Pieta" in my freshman history class.  I thought the Virgin Mary holding Jesus was such a powerful image and still think that even now.  Michelangelo used proportion to manipulate the feeling of care, fragility, and motherly embrace in the viewer. 

4- Auguste Rodin

 

I thought this time around I would pay homage to 3D art.

One of my most favorite sculptors is Rodin because of the realism in his sculptures.  The raw forms and textures of his pieces speak more than color would in most paintings.  My favorite piece is the "Gates of Hell," where"The Thinker" sits upon the doors.

Week 3- Bryan Lee O'Malley

He is the creator of Scott Pilgrim series that was later adapted into a movie and video game.  It makes you think that any proud dork can achieve everything they want one day.

Week 3- Georgia O'Keefe

I love the movement she creates in her pictures using flowers and bones using fluid brush strokes and color.  She is one of the first painters I really looked at as a a child besides Van Gogh.

Week 3 - Alphonse Mucha

He was an art noveau artist.  I love the flowy and natural feel of his works, yet there is still a structure to it with his use of borders and patterns.  I always found art noveau classic and exemplifying the female figure as a goddess.

Week 3- Hayao Miyazaki

He is a film director and animator for many of my favorite animated movies.  Some of them many of you have seen because they are so beautiful, fluid, and full of so much character and imagination.

Week 3- Naoko Takeuchi

She created Sailor Moon, a manga that eventually became an anime dubbed in the US.
It might be dorky but I can honestly say if it weren't for that show, I don't think I would have followed this career path.  This anime and manga inspired me when I was little and made me want to draw something other than stick figures. It is where my love for graphic novels and animation started.  It inspired me to push my imagination.

Siggraph 5- Mark Stock

Stock creates a forest of dual forces in this piece that I am pulled into by the movement of the vines and the depth created by the vines in the foreground weaving into the painting.

Siggraph 4- Robert Krawczyk

The flow and the mysterious feel of this series makes me feel like like I'm flowing in the deep sea.  The red and the black are both sensual and dangerous.

Siggraph 3- Bruce Wands

"The idea for the image came from realizing that the word "art" is contained within the word 'earth.'" - Wands

He created a both recognizable but abstract because of this idea.  I like how that lead to this picture because you understand that its supposed to be the earth through the grimy texture but your eyes can not discern any recognizable land masses.

Siggraph 2- Joel Knocke

Joel Knocke took traditional oil paintings and used them as models for 3-d designs.  I like the idea of using traditional and digital coming together.  I've always loved mixing media.

Siggraph 1- Liz Lee

Much like Rene Magritte's pipe, this series of Liz Lee works because of their simplicity for only having a object and words to convey a complex idea.  However, Lee wanted to relate the word to the picture, and  make you think about the function more than the actually name of the object.

Week 1- Vincent Van Vogh

 

He was another Impressionist painter that created one of my most favorite painting.

When I was in elementary school, I had to reproduce the picture in pastel.

The experience stuck with me so much that I wrote the application essay on it.

Week 1-Charles M. Schulz

 

He was the creator of the Peanuts comic strip that was later on adapted into movies.

His characters were very apart of my childhood and helped inspire my love for cartoons and comics.

http://www.schulzmuseum.org/

He simple conceptual art for his characters are classics.

Week 1-Claude Monet

He was  one of the founders of the Impressionist movement.

The term was taken from one of his paintings, "Impression, Sunrise."

My favorite paintings of his were early on in his life like the aforementioned painting and near the end when he painted lilies.

However, I find inspiration in the reflections of the water lilies he painted later on in his life.

Week 1- Rene Margitte

 

 He was a surrealist artist and one of my most favorite artists.

His "The Son of Man" inspired my concentration for my AP Art class.

His technical skill mixed with his ability to include dreamlike elements with ease and subtlety.

P.S. These next couple artist are more like the ones that I rediscovered and have always inspired me over the years.