Danielle Richard | Romantic Realism painter

Danielle Richard is a contemporary painter based in Quebec City, Canada, where she was born and educated.

Very early in life, she was fascinated by the world of pictorial art. For as long as she can remember, she has always been surrounded by the tools “for making works of art”: gouache, distemper, pastels, etc. Upon reaching adolescence, she wasted no time deciding on her future... “I loved painting and it seemed only natural for me to become an artist!”

After a college degree in Fine Arts, Cegep Ste-Foy, 1975 she earned a Bachelor's degree in Visual Arts from Université Laval in 1980.

She had her first solo exhibition in 1975 and has had numerous solo and group shows since then.

Andrea del Sarto | High Renaissance painter

Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530), original name Andrea d’Agnolo, Italian painter and draftsman whose works of exquisite composition and craftsmanship were instrumental in the development of Florentine Mannerism.

His most striking among other well-known works is the series of frescoes on the life of St. John the Baptist in the Chiostro dello Scalzo (c. 1515-26).

Lou Shabner (1917-1981) | Pin-up painter

Born in Enfield, North London, Louis Shabner is a talented British🎨 glamour artist inspired by glamorous female beauty, known as pin-up.

Lou Shabner was already an accomplished glamour artist in his native England for 25-plus years before becoming one of Brown and Bigelow's last pin-up painters.

He often worked in gouache on board (which the examples below show), but was just as comfortable using other mediums.

Rainer Maria Rilke / Auguste Rodin | Love Song, 1907

Auguste Rodin🎨 - Fugit Amor, 1881

How shall I hold my soul and yet not touch

It with your own? How shall I ever place

It clear of you on anything beyond?

Oh gladly I would stow it next to such

Things in the darkness as are never found

Down in an alien and silent space

That does not resonate when you resound.

Armand Guillaumin (1841-1927) | Figures

While Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin was an French painter, known for working in the Impressionist style.

Armand Guillaumin is best known for his landscapes and bold colors.

One of his paintings of the river Seine was the basis for his good friend Paul Cézanne's first lithograph. Other than members of the Impressionist group, Guillaumin also formed a strong friendship with artist Vincent van Gogh and his brother.

Hsin-Yao Tseng 曾新耀, 1986 | Portraits and figure

Hsin-Yao has recognized by the Art Renewal Center as an ARC Living Master in 2014.

Hsin-Yao Tseng is a Taiwan born artist.

Hsin-Yao received his Bachelor of Fine Art degree in painting from Academy of Art University, San Francisco, in 2009 and his Master of Fine Art degree from the same university in 2012.

Hsin-Yao has a curiosity and energy that propel him toward experimentation and innovation; accordingly, he works in a range of genres: from lush evocations of San Francisco and other cities to expressive portraits and finally to lustrous interiors and exteriors in which multiple figures enact a story.

Bryan Larsen, 1975 | Romantic Realist painter

American painter Bryan Larsen has been drawing and painting since childhood.

As a young person he was also fascinated with math and science and always found creative ways to mix the two worlds.

After acquiring a strong foundation in art while studying illustration, and a greater appreciation for the sciences during mechanical engineering studies, he decided to take the plunge and return to his first love: fine art.

Hsin-Yao Tseng, 1986 | Impressionist painter

Hsin-Yao Tseng was born in Taipei, Taiwan. Around the age of ten, Hsin-Yao started painting in watercolors, as well as other mediums,out side of school. The early exposure instilled in him the foundation needed to excel at very early age.

After graduated from high school in Taiwan, in 2004 summer, Hsin-Yao came to United State to study aboard. He received B.F.A. of Fine Art Painting from Academy of Art University, San Francisco in 2009.

And he received M.F.A of Fine Art Painting from the same school in 2012.