Ysabel Lemay

The Gateway - Ysabel Lemay

I’m staggered by the fantastic digital art of Quebec born, Austin Texas artist Ysabel Lemay. So complex, so joyful, so interesting, the kind of work you see something more and new in every time you look. Wow what an explosive celebration of nature. Bravo Ysabel.

Ysabel Lemay Website

Mae Read

Words can't say enough about the super sensitive brush control of Mae Read!

Furling by Mae Read 36x48 inches

Fall has inspired me to paint these pears at harvest time.

Fall Harvest, Oil on Canvas, 24 x 12 inches, by Dan Murphy

Scott Wadell

I love the dramatic lighting that Scott Wadell manages to capture in his work. Facinating to watch his figure portraits evolve from the substrate as he painstakingly fleshes out the details!

Anamorphic drawing

I'm really intrigued by artists that can convincingly trick your eye with a pencil and paper. I'd really like to try this technique. I've dabbled a bit with similar "illusion" type things in some of my paintings, like painting a faux frame and then allowing some of the paintings content to "leak out" over the edge of the frame and into the room with the viewer.

Non Sequiter - by Dan Murphy

This is my painting Non Sequiter

I guess I consider this akin to "breaking the 4th wall" in painting form.

I'm excited to design and create a new painting with an anamorphic image.

Tim O'Brien

I love how clear the idea of Tim's illustrations are presented. Super crisp.

Commission finshed

Commission In Progress

David Kassan

David Kassan - phenomenal detail, immaculate skin tone, gorgeous

Still Loving Daniel Sprick

The art of painting simplified and exemplified by Daniel Sprick

Blue Plate and Eggshell

Dan Murphy

Next Friday July 8, Sat. 9th and Sunday 10th I'll be at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition in Nathan Phillips Square in front of City Hall in Toronto. Please come to booth 230 and check out my recent work!

Escape of the Exotic Ephemera, Oil 30 x 30 inches

James Bullough

James Bullough is an American born artist living and working in Berlin, Germany. His paintings, and huge monumentally scaled site-specific murals, are phenomenal combinations of realist painting technique and graphic punctuation.

Enough - James Bullough

Tiffany Bozic

Sanguine 30” x 40” acrylic on maple panel, 2014

Tiffany Bozic creates wonderful visual metaphors in her surrealistic nature and animal paintings.

David Caesar

I came across David Caesar's work while looking at some of the entries for the 2015 Kingston Prize. The Kingston Prize is a Portrait Painting competition and one of the biggest art prizes in Canada, happening every other year for many years now. Caesar’s beautifully rendered paintings are reminiscent of some of those Canadian painter Alexander Coleville.  I really appreciate his superfine craftsmanship and tremendous attention to detail.

Flight - David Caesar

Tony Luciani

Tony Luciani is a Toronto based artist that I greatly admire. The detail in the tree leaves on his painting "Down by the River" is astounding. This painting reminds me of a Danielle Richard in its style (though she almost exclusively chooses female subjects) backlighting and colouring.

Down by the River - Tony Luciani

Ian Bodnaryk

September 18, 19  & 20 I will be showing my art alongside fellow Toronto painter Ian Bodnaryk at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition in Nathan Phillips Square at City Hall.
Ian's paintings show his impressive skill at capturing realistic qualities of light and dimension.

Stacked by Ian Bodnaryk

Jacek Yerka

Jacek Yerka's imagination blows my mind. His finely crafted paintings and pastels bring his wonderful ideas to life in delightful and vivid scenes.

Jacek Yerka - The City is Landing

Nicola Verlato

One of his Zero Gravity series. Nicola Verlato paints super dynamic large scale realistic works in oil, which he designs using the software usually used to create computer special effects for the movies. His imagination depicting the instant of a car crash at impact is fantastic and his painting is impeccable, capturing subtle nuances of light, shade and colour with paint.

Take the Road to Nowhere - Nicola Verlato

Marco Grassi

I think the degree of detail that Italian painter Marco Grassi includes in his highly realistic portraits is fantastic. The pores of the woman's face and the little threads of the fabric on the shawl are really amazing, such patience!

Blue Shawl - by Marco Grassi

Atle Skudal

Atle Skudal is a Norwegian artist, painting in the Dutch Master style. He epitomizes artists that paint "curious objects" as their subject matter. Beautiful rendering and capturing of atmosphere in paint. His work reminds me of some of that by of Richard Thomas Davis.

To Sail is Necessary - To Live is Not