Artist Lauren Dusing has a strong passion and love for color. Combining this with loose gestural brushwork, she creates artwork that is fresh and void of unnecessary detail. Lauren’s intention is to create art that stirs inspiration and fosters positive uplifting emotions, saying, “If it fills a small area in someone’s home with beauty and joy, then I have accomplished my goal as an artist.” Be sure to check out more like “No. 18024” on Discovery and by following the amazing @laurendusing. - - - - - #artworkarchiveartist #originalart #artworkarchive #indyartist #artforyourwalls #fillyourwalls #calledtobecreative #artforinteriors #abstractart #abstractpainting #colorfulart #color #emergingartist #workingartist #artinventory #artbusiness #artbiz
Mark Daniel’s first art experience was comics and cartoons! Flat color and bold line give comics their distinct look, they also have exciting characters. In his Cartoon Expressionist paintings, Mark enjoys creating similarly colorful characters that are expressive and primal. Check out “Star Dance” on Discovery and more by following @markdanielartist. - - - - - #artworkarchiveartist #originalart #artworkarchive #cartoonexpressionism #markdaniel #expressiveart #colorfulart #figurativeart #figurativepainting #acrylicpainting #workingartist #artinventory #artbusiness #artbiz
“Large and in Charge” by Julia Rogers. “Being an artist and painting nature was inevitable,” explains Julia. “Wildlife has been very inspirational to my work and is my personal favorite. Seeing animals in their own environment and witnessing their natural behavior in person changed the way I paint.” Head to Discovery and follow @juliarogersart to see more.⠀ -⠀ -⠀ -⠀ -⠀ -⠀ #artworkarchiveartist #originalart #artworkarchive #animalart #elephantart #africanart #wildlifeart #natureart #oilpainting #calledtobecreative #workingartist #artinventory #artbusiness #artbiz
Molten beeswax, old books, letters, maps, & ephemera filled with memories—these are the materials Shannon Amidon uses to create her artwork. Inspired by the briefness of life and the wonders of the natural world, our Discovery Featured Artist’s work explores the cycles of life, calling attention to its transitory and fragile nature. She has a strong emotional connection to well-worn objects that have been through many hands and her subject matter often includes a variety of natural history elements like insects, botanicals, and birds as well as ancient symbolism and geometry. By interlacing science, nature and memories, Shannon strives to create pensive and familiar images that transport the viewer to another time and place, evocative of a moment filled with exploration, wonder and discovery. See more work like “Hush” featured all this week on Discovery and @shannonamidon. - - - - - #artworkarchiveartist #originalart #artworkarchive #encausticart #womanartist #mixedmediaart #natureart #silhouette #treeart #encaustic #botanicalart #workingartist #artinventory #artbusiness #artbiz
A pop of color for your viewing pleasure this Thursday! The gorgeous abstract piece “After Glow” comes to us from New Hampshire artist Kale Baker. What are you going to create today? We’d love to hear what you’re working on - drop us a comment below! 👇 - - - - - #artworkarchiveartist #originalart #artworkarchive #abstractartist #abstractart #oilpainting #abstractlandscape #contemporaryart #colorfulart #colorpop #abstractpainting #workingartist #artinventory #artbusiness #artbiz @kalebakerpaints
“Sleeping Beauty” by Emese Cuth. When Emese was 14 years old, she read Michelangelo's biography (The Agony and the Ecstasy) and fell deeply and madly in love with him—so much so that he inspired her to start drawing for real. So she took “a crappy pencil and some crappy paper” she found at home and set out to draw Adam from Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam. Emese was pretty happy with the result, and from then on, there was no stopping her! She fell deeply and madly in love with drawing. Nothing else compared to it. It was the equivalent of perfect happiness and bliss. Even through art school rejections and years of debilitating back pain, she’s not giving up on her passion, saying, “I'd like to seize every pain-free minute I get and use it to create drawings.” We’re rooting for you, Emese! To see more, head over to Discovery. - - - - - #artworkarchiveartist #originalart #artworkarchive #pencildrawing #drawing #drawings #worksonpaper #artdrawing #pencilart #blackandwhite #figurativeart #figurativedrawing #calledtobecreative #contemporaryartist #artinventory #artbusiness #artbiz
“No day shall erase you from the memory of time.” - Virgil . Have you seen Spencer Finch’s work, “Trying To Remember the Color of the Sky on That September Morning”? It’s inspired by New Yorkers’ memories of the intensely blue sky the morning of September 11th. . It’s made up of 2,983 individual squares of paper hand painted by the artist, one for every person killed in the World Trade Center attacks. An incredibly powerful, must-see installation at the 9/11 Memorial. Our hearts are with those we lost that day, and their family and friends! . #september11 #neverforget #spencerfinch #nyart #artinstallation (📷: @marietheresegriffin)
“I’d been thinking about incorporating all my subjects into one painting: Oysters, nudes, and portraiture,” says Nadine Robbins, a former creative director turned figurative painter with an oyster obsession living in the Hudson Valley. “I asked my friend, and fellow oyster lover, if she wanted to pose for me. Luckily, she was up to the task. So I headed to Miami for a fun weekend of oysters and photo shooting. A friend of hers, a jeweler, brought several pearl necklaces to compliment the oyster theme. It’s a good thing that I learned about painting pearls from Master painter Paul McCormack since in the painting there are well above 60 of them in her necklace. This piece is a tribute to those of us that are oyster lovers with an added sexual undertone.” - As our current cultural climate threatens to encroach on freedom of choice, expression, sexuality and equity, Nadine’s work serves to echo the reality of the American experience, one that is diverse, fluid and multifaceted. Her nude and portrait paintings tell the stories of ordinary people from all walks of life paired with a sense of defiance and irreverence for societal norms regarding gendered ideas of behavior, identity, and sexuality. Check out more from our Featured Artist of the Week on Discovery and by following @nadinerobbinsart. - - - - - #artworkarchiveartist #originalart #artworkarchive #figurativeart #figurativepainting #portrait #portraitpainting #portraitartist #portraiture #oilpainting #realism #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #artinventory #artbusiness #artbiz
“Painting is my voice, the place where I can express passions that words can’t reach. I begin with a palette of paint, a new canvas and no preconceived ideas. When I raise my head I see an image true to my being that still evades words.” - Marianna Enhörning - Born in Sweden, Marianne is deeply influenced by her family heritage. Now living in B.C., Canada, she has spent many years alternating her time between natural and urban environments: on the West Coast as a kayak guide and in cities, working in architecture. Her evocative, dreamlike works explore the division between modern society and nature, longing for a more harmonious world. Check out Discovery and follow @enhorningdesign to see more. - - - - - #artworkarchiveartist #originalart #artworkarchive #bcart #contemporaryart #figurativeart #canadianart #abstractfigure #abstractart #mixedmedia #mixedmediaart #figurepainting #painter #painting #artquote #colorfulart #natureart #figurativepainting #workingartist #artinventory #artbusiness #artbiz
