James Christensen was born in 1942 and raised in Culver City, California. He was classically trained in art techniques at UCLA and Brigham Young University. After graduating from art school, Christensen went on to teach art for two decades. Over the years he has produced many fine art paintings in oil paint, a medium that […]
Mikaël Aguirre was born in France in 1981. Video games have had such an effect on Aguirre’s life that they have even influenced his art. Mikaël creates his video game paintings in digital imaging software like Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter. These programs allow the artist to work at his own pace – there are no […]
On March 30th 1995, Brian Lewis Saunders decided to draw a self-portrait every day. He now has thousands of portraits, all collected in hard cover notebooks. Some of these portraits were created while under the influence of a variety of drugs. The artist sought out different drugs with the intention of drawing a portrait of […]
Jakub Kujawa is an artist from Poland who dabbles in a variety of artistic mediums. He creates fine art paintings, tattoos and digital designs in art software like Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter. Featured in this article are his traditional art paintings that combine surrealism and spirituality to create a beautiful portrait of the human […]
This music video shows Andrea Dorfman speed painting illustrations of the lyrics of Tanya Davis’s song “Art”. The term “speed painting” refers to an art work that has been created in real time and filmed. The video is then sped up with digital video editing software. This creates a short film that contains hours of […]
A fun art video from Youtube artist Phil Hansen. Using his hands instead of paint brushes, Hansen creates a large portrait of kung fu master Bruce Lee. The art style is an apt way to paint Bruce Lee, honoring the actor’s martial arts background while honoring the actor himself. The black paint on the white […]
Sandro del Prete was born in 1937 in Switzerland. After finishing school, Prete dedicated himself to painting and spent time at the Florence Academy of Art in Italy, learning the painting techniques of the masters. After returning to Switezerland, the painter began to study and create religious and symbolic paintings. His interest in symbols and […]
Phil Hansen is an artist who creates interesting art videos for Youtube. He has made portraits out of pine cones, painted a portrait of Bruce Lee with kung fu moves and tattooed a banana. Hansen challenges our preconceived ideas of art while pushing the boundaries of his own creativity. In this art video, Phil Hansen […]
Chris Newman is an American painter who creates digital paintings in software art programs like Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter. Even though his paintings are created on a computer, the finished art works have a watercolor painting effect. Watercolor effects suit Newman’s paintings perfectly, allowing the artist to fade elements of the scene to create a sense […]
Craig Kosak is an American painter who was born in 1957 near Seattle, the city he still calls home. He draws inspiration from his travels, expressing in his paintings both the external imagery that he encounters and the emotions that his experiences create within him. As he says on his website; “Inspired by the wildlife […]