painters

see also: Sculptors

Old Masters

1. Velazquez http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Manet_Velazquez/frenchtaste_images.htm
2. Ribera
3. Rubens, Jordaens, Snyders, Van Dyck
4. Michaelangelo

Contemporary Painters

Yuqi Wang !!
April Gornikhttp://www.aprilgornik.com/visualliteracyessay.html

• Nicola Samori

• Augostino Arrivabene
• Roberto Ferri
• Vincent Desiderio
• Odd Nerdrum

• Antonio Lopez
• Sigal Tsabari
• Nelson Shanks
• Robert Liberace
• Theresa Oaxaca

digital painters

Justin Sweet
Ray Caesar (3d)

[::illustrators]

• Sam Weber http://www.sampaints.com/portfolio.html
• Cabinod collective http://artlinks.cabinodd.com/
• James Jean http://www.jamesjean.com/
• Yuko Shimizu http://www.yukoart.com/index.html
  I don't personally believe in word "style". If viewers see something in my work that they think of as "style", I probably draw that way because I cannot do it any other way. I am not trying to say I don't know how to paint in oil or draw with shading, but what I am trying to say is everyone has something we do naturally and comfortably because that works best for us, and people see that as style. But actually style is not about how it looks on the surface. It is what makes your work you because you do it naturally and that natural to everyone is so different. ...As an artist I believe you should change, not force yourself to change, but change naturally. Your experience, influences and thinking affect how you work, so you make gradual change over the years. You kind of never know what you would be doing five years from now. That is part of fun being an artist, which is completely different from how corporate world works.
• Bill Sienkiewicz http://www.billsienkiewiczart.com/