I found Paul Zelinsky recently and accidentally- my kids and I were checking books out of the library and grabbed a Rapunzel book off the shelf.   I’m not sure how we ended up with it- my… Read more

Yarrow Cheney- another amazing illustrator- if you look at his Portfolio and his Blog you’ll notice that he worked on Despicable Me- if you scroll past all of that you’ll get to see some of his other work.… Read more

Xia Gui is an artist from the early 1200s according to Wikipedia he was a landscape painter of the Song Dynasty.  Now I chose him in part because I was having a hard time finding an ‘X’… Read more

Another portraitist- beautiful figures, beautiful paintings.  Once again another one of my art heroes that I hope to be like one day. Head to his website to check out more of his amazing art: WilliamWhitaker.com ~Alicia Read more

This girl is absolutely amazing- I could write paragraphs talking about how wonderful her art is.  I’m not going to though- go check out her website: Loish.net to see more examples of her art.  As usual I’m just… Read more

This painter is rom the Flemish Baroque period and lived about 1599-1652.  He’s one of those painters that doesn’t get taught a lot (but to be honest- unless you are in a college level art history class… Read more