• Z is for Paul O Zelinsky

    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

  • Y is for Yarrow Cheney

    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

  • X is for Xia Gui

    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

  • W i for William Whitaker

    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

  • V is for Lois Van Baarle

    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

  • U is for Adriaen van Utrecht

    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