Artists who Inspire Me: Hsin-Yao Tseng

  I have a bookmarks folder called 'artists' and the list has grown quite long now as I continue to come across amazing artists whose work is so inspiring.

  This weekend I discovered an incredible artist via the online Artists On Art magazine. He wrote an article on the importance of Pochades, or quick paintings. His name is Hsin-Yao Tseng. He is just a young artist, born in '86, and still has half his career before him. But already he is a successful artist and his work is so good, I look forward to seeing his future work as he can only get better!

  Here are a few examples of his work, I just love his drawings. You can see lots more on his well designed website.

As you can see he can paint in a totally different style as in the painting above.

 Here is a video promotion from an exhibition of his about a year ago.

A slideshow of his paintings. I just love the first piece of music in the video, I'm learning it on my piano at the moment.

Interesting and Inspiring - Akiane Kramarik

Painted by Akiane at age eight!

 Several years ago my aunt gave us a book about an artist called Akiane and we were stunned by the beautiful paintings and poems which were created by a little girl. Her most amazing paintings were painted when she was only eight and nine and are better than I and many other adult artists could do. She is now about sixteen or seventeen and here are a few videos I have found on YouTube. 

I this you can see her painting in a time lapse or speed painting video.

Julie Greg- New Zealand Artist

  As part of an unofficial new years resolution I have been looking at work from New Zealand artists for I realized that I know shockingly little of the New Zealand art world. I actually don't like the usually New Zealand contemporary style or 'unrealism'. However I am discovering their are allot of artists from my country who are really brilliant artists.

Julie Greg, for example. I have known of this artist for some years and she has been a big inspiration for me. Whenever I wanted to draw something and couldn't come up with good ideas I would look at her beautiful pastel work. Here are some samples:

Catherino II

Learning to Fly

Power and Grace

  I love the style of her work with the very realistic and detailed horse and abstract textured background.

  I lie how she has done the background for this, it is abstracted to show off the dear but you can tell it is a grassy woodland scene and can even see blue sky through the tree tops.

  Julie Greg has also done a series on shepherds with their horses and dogs. Beautiful pieces are they not!

You can follow her on her blog, though she dose not post very regularly, or see more work in her website gallery. Julie Greg on Facebook

So what do you think? Recon I could become that good an artist one day!