I like Sjosjana





She is my mother, and I realy love her work

http://www.sjosjana.nl/

Beautiful style...you must've inherited that from her. I'd like to see more of her work, if possible.

http://www.sjosjana.nl/

It's in dutch, but if you click on "Kunstwerken" you'll get the gallery

Niiiiiiiiice works, people.
Sjosjana...really cool!

Well, not really influenced in the artistic way, but I guess I got the 'artistic' fever from Gerard David. Guess it is in the genes (he's my ancestor, also my father but he's not as well known )

Franz Marc:
Died in action in World War I at the age 36

Tim Burton's concept art is my favorite.

i could have talked about the extraordinary Rembrandt, about Francis Bacon or Auerbach again, or Giger, but i'd like to introduce u the 2 highest ranked painters of nowdays, in the -45yo category. (Real sizes are about 2 to 3 meters high(60-100 '))
Neo Rauch (Germany)


and Cecily Brown (USA)



both explore figurative mixed with abstract process but in the inverted way. Oil on canvas for both. Enjoy.

(And Sam: ur motha kicks asses; the first one is awesome.)

Nice Naiko!

I like the second Rauch a lot!

yea i think its a new one, this guy does good shit. but even him or Brown or any kind of painting should be watched for real. the Brown's are so textured, u can't see it it here.

do u know Auerbach (older guy but still alive) ?
master of 1 inch thick oil paintings ,damn powerful (kinda german DeKooning but more figurative maybe) :


mmmmm...to finish another Rauch's:

And I looooooooooove texture!!!

yea i think its a new one, this guy does good shit. but even him or Brown or any kind of painting should be watched for real. the Brown's are so textured, u can't see it it here. ]

damn the more i look at Auerbach's the more i think about oil tube paint's price lol; not very economic style but so frigging cool hahaha!

Of course...I always had a soft spot for Seuss...

First time I was in Belize I stayed in a Wonderful Mayan Village (now my home away from home).I rehabed a teenage boy that was walking like he had a wooden leg from a football injury.In return his mother made me this beautiful slate.

the woman still take canoes and go upstream to gather the slate then they etch..this is their mayan calender and their female healer and her husband.I am going to put their website on here this is a very poor village and this is the "womans money" they got together and created this center that sits at the edge of the Jaguar Preserve.They do beautiful Art and how they live has inspired me as much as the smile on that young boys face when he was able to walk normal...

http://www.mayawomen.com/index.htm

http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/1273/dominicsslatehr4.jpg

for me because i haven't got the background in art/graphics that seems to be the norm here i am rarely influenced by any one artist i am of the people that if they see something they like they like it, sorry to say as some of the work i have seen posted in this thread has in their own way got some great aspects.

the one artist i do know and that is only as an illustrator of a series of books i read, the discworld set by Terry Pratchett, is Josh Kirby, heres the link to his page at artists.co.uk

http://www.artistsuk.co.uk/acatalog/ARTISTS_UK__SERIES_2___DISCWORLD_PRINTS_292.html

he sadly died in 2003