We asked some artists to share a favorite work and their inspiration.
Featured Artist Martha Zmpounou
Artist Martha Zmpounou combines realism and abstraction, inspired by the juxtaposition of her imagination and everyday life.
Featured Artist Eleanor Goudreau
Artist Eleanor Goudreau skillfully shares her observations of nature and mankind’s effect on the environment.
Featured Artist Marta Lett
Artist Marta Lett celebrates her Celtic heritage by creating works that combine her ancestry with the flora and fauna of her Australian home.
Featured Artist Mark DeMent
I enjoy artwork that leads someone to create their own backstory. I find it fun to see if I can create a piece that someone would want to know enough of the story surrounding it that they would complete the story for themselves.
The Art of Whimsy
Whimsy: capricious humor or disposition; extravagant, fanciful, or excessively playful.
Featured Artist Amy Bartlett Wright
As an artist who paints natural history, geographic location influences me strongly.
Featured Artist Monica Moody
I have dabbled in one artistic endeavor or another for most of my life but never felt like I had found my medium until I discovered alcohol inks in 2011.
Featured Artist Nancy Jacey
Some of my Prismacolor pieces are as big as 30” x 40,” and take up to 400+ hours to complete.
Featured Artist Gavin McClure
The series I am working on now is called “Distill/Disintegrate”. This series exists along the spectrum of Disintegration.
Featured Artist Nata Ibragimov
My paintings are slightly surreal and dreamlike. I like to convey the mood and emotion with them more than the actual subject matter
Featured Artist Gretchen Deahl
I work primarily in ink, pencil, and watercolor, using Photoshop for technical assistance. Children’s illustrations, including a world of whimsical monsters comprise much of my recent work.
How to Become a Successful Freelance Artist
Successful artist and guest author Noah Bradley shares tips for artists who want to sell their work as freelancers.
Featured Artist Sophie Kittredge
Born in Paris, France, I grew up in Europe, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. So I have fun mixing all the different cultural and artistic influences I was exposed to as a kid in my books.
