A Siili Little Artist

ANDY LOVELL Swirls & Eddies, North Devon / North Cornish Coast / Swans, Incoming Tide silkscreen prints

Tiger maquette by the way 🐅

Wood primed and underpainted and sketch transferred mostly by cutting it out in different chunks and tracing around them. Stripes to be determined. Nobody let me work on this again for at least two weeks

The finished Ms. Tigers

Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-1977) — Message for Mercy [oil on board, 1950]

Kohno Michisei, seen here at twenty-two, presents himself in a pose modeled on Western Renaissance master Albrecht Durer's (1471-1528) self-portrait produced in 1500. Between 1914 and 1924 a remarkable quantity of high-quality portraiture was produced by Japanese artists who blended Western and East Asian painting traditions. While some of these painters had first-hand knowledge of Western painting, most, like Michisei, culled their images from books and magazines. The young artist was raised in an environment filled with powerful iconic images. His father was a portrait photographer, an artist in both Japanese and Western modes, and an active member of the Russian Orthodox Church. These influences are readily apparent in this self-portrait. Michisei's perceptive understanding of classic Western images was based on constant perusal of his father's extensive library; a portrait's potential for psychological and spiritual impact was impressed on him through exposure to religious icons used in the Orthodox liturgy. (source)

Reflecting My Grace & Radiating My Sovereignty, 2019 by Calida Rawles (American, b. 1976); Acrylic on canvas, 84x72 in

cross stitch, words from Jenny Holzer's Livings, 1980-1982

Susan Meiselas, Self-Portrait

Brent Wong.

Swim, 2022

a piece of wood carved to fit perfectly into a zippered plastic bag

Oil on canvas , 147 x 259 cm.

Stare 2, 2026 by Emmanuel Daniel (Nigerian, b. 1999); Acrylic and oil on canvas, 14x12 in.

Oil on canvas on cardboard , 48 x 65 cm.

Woodcut ,  40.3 x 32.6 cm.

All images courtesy of the artist, shared with permissionBespoke Glass Studio’s Sculptures Challenge Traditional Conventions of Stained Glass

Oil on canvas , 70 x 60.5 in.