Treasure Frey

From this Artist::  "I received my BFA at Virginia Commonwealth University. My illustrations have been published in the UTNE Reader, Oxford American, Evergreen Monthly, Art and Living Californiat New York Press and The Stranger.  My drawings, collages and prints have been shown in galleries in New York, Brooklyn, San Francisco and Seattle."

"After graduating I have become a coastal hopper... Virginia to New York to Seattle, back to New York again, then San Francisco to  Alameda to Los Angeles...and who knows next !  My awesome family is on the east coast but my love of the west coast always draws me back."
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Rudolf Kurz

About this artist: "Trained as a medical doctor in my native Germany, I later travelled and ended up studying painting at the Art Students' League in New York City. Since moving to Canada I have shown my art in four solo exhibitions and many group shows. I have also painted a dozen murals in hospitals, libraries and schools - the largest of them sixty-five meters long!"

"My carefully detailed, often bizarre and darkly humorous paintings, drawings and etchings are influenced by Surrealism and by the art of medieval and Renaissance Northern Europe."
"I create my etchings using a centuries old printmaking technique. I don't use any shortcuts like photographic transfer of an image to a printing plate. The design is drawn and then etched with acid onto a treated zinc or copper plate. This image is printed on dampened, thick printmaking paper, using an old fashioned, hand cranked intaglio press. My favourite printmaking paper is the French paper BFK Rives, made by a company that is centuries old. Making one print takes about half an hour. Creating the printing plate takes many days. ( This is why my prints are priced higher than photomechanical reproductions.) My prints are limited to an edition between 30 and 50. They are signed, numbered and titled by me."

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Dreamy Me is Me

From the Artist:  "My name is Elena. I'm a Spanish artist, writer and illustrator living in London. I love drawing and writing and combining both in my books. I studied architecture in Barcelona and I have been very inspired by great Catalan artists such as architect Antoni Gaudi and designer Javier Mariscal. 19th-century Japanese prints have been a great source of inspiration too.  My Bristish illustrator heros are Quentin Blake, Tony Ross and Helen Oxenbury. My favourite subjects are adventures, travels, discoveries, power of imagination, parallel worlds, loss and absence, cycle of seasons, pass of time,.. search of identity and revolution.

All the articles I sell at Dreamymeisme are manufactured with lots of care and thought in my home studio in Herne Hill (London UK) Prints, calendars, diaries, cards, sketchbooks and notebooks are made of beautiful selected card and paper and designed around my illustrations. Through them you will get to know my characters and their stories.  Dreamymeisme is about the different, unique, small scale, thoughtful, delicate, ethically produced, affordable, stylish, mindful, classy, locally resourced and above all creative.  Deamymeisme stands up against mass production, unethical enterprising, cheap, unnecessarily expensive and carelessness."
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Made with Dots

About this artist:  "Hello, my name is Doug. I am an artist and teacher. I love to draw more than anything. Sometimes I get caught up in my sketch book work and forget to get on with the finished products. That being my pen and ink stipple illustrations. I discovered stippling, which is similar to pointillism, a few years ago while working towards my masters degree. Since then I have not really looked back. In stippling I found the perfect format for my love of drawing to challenge me. I can not see ever giving it up.   My artwork is basically a interpretation of nature and the physical world. Through stippling I impart my own personal style on the many facets of beauty this world has to offer.   Follow all that I do and work in progress on facebook at:  www.facebook.com/pages/Made-With-Dots/121958164575360?sk=wall ."  You can also click through the post title above to be taken to the artists shop.

Megashark

From the artist:  "My latest project MEGASHARK revolves around the individual parts that make up evolutionary, environmental, and social systems. With my large collection of portraits featuring unusual, expressive, animals which can be endlessly combined to tell new stories, I explore the relationships, mythology, and chance encounters within these systems, and I invite you to do so too! Plus, the animals are pretty awesome individuals if I do say so myself, and they would love to have you as a friend! They (and I) would also love to see you on Facebook: www.facebook.com/megashark.illustration."

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Jewel Renee

Statement from the Artist:  "As an illustrator, I have a special affinity for color, pattern and line quality. As a scared scared-y pants, I have a strong aversion for things that could touch me when I swim. I am using illustration as therapy to get over this and possibly enable me to snorkel some day. I am documenting my progress (or lack thereof) on my blog:  http://www.jewelrenee.blogspot.com/.  I love when people stop by and suggest a sea creature for illustration.  After finishing an illustration, I offer prints in my shop here:  http://www.jewelrenee.etsy.com/.  If I do get the guts up to swim in the ocean, it'd be for naught unless I could finance it."

Truly, this is a girl after my own heart.  Our mutual love of sea creatures and all things reminiscent of sea life have formed an underlying appreciation for each other's respective talents.  I began following her blog in which she chronicles the ongoing progress of her illustratons and I found it a very easy and interesting read.  She is quite candid about her inspiration, her methods and outlining the journey as each piece develops.  I am a big fan.  If you'd like to see more, and I suggest that you should, you can click on either one of the links above to visit her etsy shop or the blog and learn more interesting tidbits about the lovely Jewel Renee.