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Contemporary Art and Artists

Be inspired by the paintings and drawings from some of the world’s best working artists with these guest blog posts, artist interviews, exhibition news, and more.

Edward Duff's new landscape paintings are "a visual love letter" to the beautiful and varied lands of Michigan. Here, he shares his inspiration and process as an oil painter.
NYC-based oil painter Devin Cecil-Wishing shares his thoughts on art as a language in its own world.
Be inspired by Jesse Lane's "Then and Now" story of how he overcame his insecurities and went on to build confidence, as well as an impressive body of work.
Shawn Dell Joyce shows us how to add realistic birds to landscape paintings in this episode of Art School Live with Eric Rhoads.
This Chilean artist pursues allegory and symbolism in her multi-figure compositions, often communicating messages with psychological and philosophical overtones.
"Being an artist is a true blessing. It’s a reason to get up in the morning," said pastel painter Judith Kazdym Leeds in this inspiring interview.
My work attempts to distill all I know of our formidable species and the natural systems that sustain us down to a sorrowful beauty ...
On Painting Animals > "I work in a realistic style but always aim to create a painting with more depth and vibrance than the photo reference," says Emma Colbert.
"Imagine Leonardo da Vinci and Georges Seurat meet in a field in France. Do they actually see the same things? Do they actually see the same way? The biological perceptual system — is it identical? If it is, then why did they paint so differently?"
Emma Colbert's boundless love for nature and animals combined with art and pastel painting has made her one of the most sought-after ...
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