Artist: HomeScapes
HomeScapes is an illustration service specializing in residential and commercial properties. Artist Rick Danielson creates exquisitely detailed portraits of homes and businesses in pen and ink and watercolor. House portraits make great gifts for special occasions of all kinds, and are destined to become valued keepsakes.
From the time Rick Danielson was a child, a fascination with art and architecture combined in a love of drawing buildings. Today, he employs technical skill and artistry to create portraits that are not only correctly proportioned and finely detailed, but which convey the unique character or "feel" of each home or business.
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Artist: Jeff Condon
Trained in painting and graphic design at Kendall College of Art & Design, my work has a certain close up and cropped look, bringing the viewer into a scene to recall a feeling or space the viewer may have experienced. The feeling and energy of someone about to enter a room or having just been there. Working with color, light, and brush stroke I capture a moment where one is aware of the energy or sense of being in that very moment.
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Artist: Drawings by Mari
Since I had always liked art as a child, I began to dabble with it by taking an adult basic drawing class at my local community college. I enjoyed learning the drawing techniques so I purchased an amazing learn to draw portraits book by Lee Hammond. Over the next few years, I practiced and saw improvement with each portrait. All of my art is hand-drawn by studying photos of the subjects I draw.
Most of my drawings at that time were for friends and family. In the past couple years I entered craft fairs and local church fund-raising auctions and continued to draw for people in my community. I now participate in many shows each year and was excepted into the juried section of the Best of Missouri Hands (Missouri Artisan Association).
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 | Artist: Dry Pigment Paintings by Diane French
Working beyond the limitations of culture or tradition, I create images using only my hands as tools. I have developed this technique through the study of, and experience with, the natural characteristics and innate qualities of raw pigments. Pure pigments, in powder form, are pressed by hand into the gritted surfaces of wood panels and paper.
I am involved with the development of several series, translating some of the best non-verbal human experiences, feelings and emotions we share, into fine art. Enjoy the view, and peace my friends !
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Artist: Jason Fricke
I work with the direct, minimalist style that evolved while drawing dancers and musicians during performances. Working rapidly, I focus on capturing the vitality and the essence of the subject. A few lines can often speak with a unique eloquence and inspire the viewer to see things anew.
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Artist: Marilyn Love Fine Art
Marilyn Love, popular home portrait artist, has created over 1,000 commissioned pen and ink drawings and watercolor paintings since 1987. Her custom, affordable house portraits and garden portraits become cherished family memories, keepsakes, and unique gifts. Her paintings and sketches of churches, landmarks, and architectural ruins both in this country and abroad have become much-loved souvenirs.
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 | Artist: Jayne Baron
I work in colored pencil and pastel. Colored pencils are perfect for the smaller cameos I enjoy doing, and intricate details. Pastels are ideal for adding deep, rich color in larger areas.
Portraiture is the most interesting and challenging area of painting for me. A good portrait combines beauty, likeness and insight into the character of the subject. As I've matured spiritually I have come to appreciate the profound value of every person. To render a likeness that expresses the beauty and character of the subject is for me an act of worship.
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Artist: Mary Gregg Byrne
I began painting watercolors in 1980 after taking a class with Steve Mayo, and that media has been my focus ever since. I love the beauty of watercolor. It is alive. Watercolors create with the artist, as well as the artist painting with them. The transparency of watercolor is a joy to me because I am interested in painting light. Watercolor allows this. I paint sunlight on a child’s hair and window light refracting through crystal.
I have always loved drawing people. The human face is a powerful image. I continue to paint portraits by commission and inclination. I have been interested in children's book illustration since I was nine. I created books as class projects in college.
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Artist: David Hunter
David majored in zoology at the University of South Florida in Tampa, coming away with both a B.A. (1969) and M.A. (1973) in that subject area and illustrating his master’s thesis with pen-and-ink drawings. From the fall of 1973 until the summer of 1978 David taught science at the middle school level. During his fourth year of teaching David needed a mental diversion and turned to art, working in pen and ink since that was the last artistic medium he had worked with.
At the end of that fifth year of teaching David applied for and recieved a year’s leave of absence from teaching, being a full-time teacher on the last day of the school year and a full-time artist on the next day. For the past 26 years David has supported himself and his family through his artwork, having learned the printmaking techniques of etching and monotypes.
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 | Artist: Dale Jarrett
The subjects in the work are imagined, rather than actual places or renditions of photographs. The pencil drawings are original compositions created in various forms of carbon including carbon pencil, carbon stick (lead), and/or carbon crayon (conté). A tightly rolled piece of paper shaped like a sharpened cigar called a stump is used to subtly manipulate the carbon. Removing a mark is as important as making one, and for this purpose kneaded, vinyl and electric erasers are used.
The drawings are created on Arches hot-pressed watercolor paper. Known for it's impeccable consistency and quality Arches has been making paper in Arches, France for over 500 years. This specific paper has an internal and surface sizing which allows for repeated, aggressive marking and erasing. Each drawing is unique, one-of-a-kind, and capable of retaining it's original integrity for generations.
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