Artists Describing Their Art:
Hubel Jim - I'm an artist and I can't live any other way. Where ever I end up in life I always seem to fall back on my creative side to get by..... and I always get by! Art comes from my soul as I usually have no idea what I'm drawing until it flows out of my hand as scribbles and scratches. ...
Barbara Shepard - Although I had a grounding in many techniques and processes and an academic training in drawing and painting from nature, archetecture and the model, my early work became abstracted and sometimes it was in 3d or relief using mixed media. Gradually it honed down into painting and drawing mainly due to studio restriction and other themes to do with the body started to emerge. I moved away from abstraction and in the late 1980's and early 1990's themes were to do with redefining the feminine and picturing the female nude from a female perspective. My current work is concerned with different aspects of human expression and especially a different face of masculinity. It seeks to re-configure the male in art. I am interested in how this translates into the aesthetics of a pictorial image, creating beauty in composition, colour and mark making. Taken from a close up perspective, they explore female desire and male vulnerability. The male model is the observed rather than the observer. It isn't an attempt to do a role reversal and objectify the male but to illuminate aspects of male character little seen on public view. Composed of close up parts of ...
Teresa Peterson - Teresa Peterson is a freelance artist, specializing in realistic paintings of animals and nature. My website offers custom pet portraits. I work with most mediums, the main being acrylic paint, oil paint, watercolor, and ink. I have painted many animals in many paints, and scenery in acrylic and oil....