Riikka Auvinen

Riikka Auvinen is a very talented watercolour artist and illustrator from Finland. She graduated from Metropolia University with a BA in Culture and Arts this year. To view more of this beautiful work check out her blog or if you wish her deviantart.

Barnaby Ward

Great illustrator with a brilliant attention to detail. To see more of his work check it out here or here.

Mapache Salado

Here's a lovely young up and coming artist that you should know about if you don't already. He portrays a wonderful softness in the female portrait and a great balance between intricate detail and simplicity.

To see more either check out his blog or his deviantART.

Winston Chmielinski

Winston Chmielinski (or *Winst as he is more commonly known on deviantart) is a wonderfully experimental painter whose work always captures my imagination to paint more every single time I look at it. To view more check out his website.

Riikka Sormunen

This wonderful illustrator/ painter is working her way around deviantart plus Trendi Magazine and the New York Times. She's represented in Finland by Napa Illustrations. 

To check out more have a look on her personal website.

Gaetan Henrioux

I found this lovely french artist on deviant art. His work is definitely worth checking out and to view more have a look at his website.

Mikhail Vrubel

Please click on them to view them larger, especially to see the way the brushstrokes are applied to the surface of the paintings in thick successions. These wonderful images are painted by the Russian painter Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel. Born March 17, 1856 – April 14, 1910 and usually regarded amongst the Russian painters of the symbolist movement.