BOB ROSS – WHY I DON’T PAINT PEOPLE

Tribute Song to Bob Ross and video shot in New York 2000 celebrating why Bob Ross never painted people. LINK: Youtube

Norman Rockwell's Photo Realism

Norman Rockwell was a 20th century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States, where Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over more than four decades.

Norman Rockwell's rosy illustrations of small town American life looked so photographic because his method was to copy photographs that he conceived and meticulously directed, working with various photographers and using friends and neighbors as his models. LINK: The Presurfer

Beard Painter

Paintbrushes are for amateurs. LINK: Youtube

Lamborghini’s Master Painters

Painting the Murciélago's carbon fiber body takes hundreds of hours and a lot of skill. LINK: Youtube

Google Puts the World at the Tip of Painter's Brush

Bill Guffey has never walked the streets of London, New York or Barcelona. He has never visited the coast of Maine or watched the sun set in Italy over a Florentine villa.

But if you looked around his rural Kentucky studio, you would never know it.

Tableaus from European cities and every U.S. state (except for Hawaii) cover the walls of his home, illustrating the adventures of a presumably well-traveled artist. Yet the self-taught oil painter said he has never physically been to 99 percent of the places he has captured on canvas.

To reach the closest Wal-Mart, Guffey said he needs at least 30 minutes in the car. But with 30 seconds on his computer, he can fly around the world with Google Street View and paint any place his cursor lands.

Not only does the mapping tool give Guffey and other users a street-level window to many places in the world, it lets them navigate 360-degree horizontal and 290-degree vertical unbroken panoramas. LINK

Can get more of his work here and here.

Jay Lonewolf Morales - Colorblind Painter Extraordinaire

Painting: “Solomon’s Eyes”



Jay Lonewolf Morales is an astonishing painter that suffers from monochromacy – complete color blindness — the rarest and most uncommon form of color blindness. He is one of only five in the world that suffers from achromatopsia, or rod monochromacy, which also affects sensitivity to light. The artist can only see in black and white and shades of grey, yet all of his paintings are done with vivid colors.
Jay doesn’t permit others into his studio while he works. “I cry every time I paint because I cannot enjoy the pigments of my labor. My realm resides in shades, with the creative independence of free flowing serenity.” says Jay. “I can’t see what I’m doing. My hands flail around half-hazardly. I’m trying to create what I call my children.” LINK



LINK: Youtube

Cynthia Sitton - Painter

Influenced by the tragedy and joys of her own experience, Cynthia J. Sitton uses her art to examine and cope with family life. From the dramas that are universal in adolescence, to the heartache of mental illness, Cynthia explains how both the dark and the light in her life provide inspiration for her painting. LINK

Josh Keyes

Josh Keyes is a Northern California painter and sculptor. He creates work that asks questions about the implications of urban sprawl and its impact on the environment.

Josh Keyes is interested in creating psychological narratives set in closed systems that express the behavior and interaction between humans and animals. LINK

Isabel Samaras: Painter of Enigmatic Stories

Born in New York, Isabel Samaras’ a painter/illustrator with a difference: she’s an ‘enigmatic storyteller who uses paint instead of words’. Her paintings submerge you into a multi-layered world: a world that echos forgotten parables from bygone eras using characters that have their own (modern) mythologies. You’ll find characters from 70s sitcoms, in particular from popular TV shows like “The Avengers,” “The Addams Family,” “Star Trek,” “Bewitched,” “Gilligan’s Island,” “I Dream of Jeannie,” “The Munsters” and “The Six Million Dollar Man.” These characters (and more) are re-cast with pop culture icons and classic works of fine art for a contemporary spin. Beyond television and the master paintings, Isabel pulls influences from horror movies, Las Vegas lifestyles, and Mexican calendar art into her projects. LINK