Hayashi Waichi is a Japanese printmaker renown for his work with flowers. Hayashi Waichi was born in Shizoka prefecture in the year 1951.
Waichi attended the Kanazawa Arts and Crafts College located in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan.
Waichi enjoys working in many mediums including painting, printmaking, ceramics, and pottery.
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As with most woodblock artists Waichi shows a wonderful sense of design in his art. Waichi also does a great job at controlling his use of the color red. Not too much, not too little, always the right amount.
The artist also works with the medium of photographer. The first example in the picture gallery is an example of Liu’s photography style.
Liu has shown her work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Crystal Liu’s art reminds of painter Robert Kushner. Both artist’s capture the wonderful organic lines of flowers and also incorporate a variety of mediums to give their paintings a wonderful variety of texture and movement of light across the painting surface. When I first saw Kushner’s work in person I was amazed at how the picture changed slightly as moved, this made it seem very life like.
Kushner often covers his work with resin and also uses glitter, which doesn’t show up well on a digital image. But in person as the viewer slightly moves different light is bounced on a variety of colors of glitter and the effect is a shimmering light.
Jet Martinez is a popular illustrator and muralist who often works with floral and animal imagery. His work is similar to the Amate style of Mexican folk art painting. Animals and birds are painted with bright colors and mix of floral and botanical imagery.
Jet Martinez was born in Mexico. He often paints scenes that represent areas where he grew up. Martinez attended the San Francisco Academy of Art. Martinez is based out of San Francisco.
Below a look at a mural by Jet Martinez featuring flowers:
In this clip a great interview with Jet Martinez. He talks about what inspired him to become an artist:
Watch out for this question on Jeopardy! Who was the first artist in residence at Facebook? Jet Martinez is the answer. He talks about this experience in the second clip.
The first street artist who painted the Facebook headquarters was David Choe. Choe became a multi millionaire since he chose to be paid for his work in stock. Facebook has proven to be very lucrative for some artists!
The story of how Martinez came to be an artist is one that is repeated over and over. People have self doubt and often aren’t exposed to enough art at an early age. Its funny that his “a-ha” or epiphany moment came when he had a teacher whose work wasn’t very good. Martinez then thought if he can teach anyone can be an artist.
Susan Headley Van Campen is an American artist renown for her art of floral imagery. The artist was born in Springfield, Massachusetts in the year 1951.
The artist attended the Moore College of Art for one year before finishing college at the Pennsylvania Academy of Art. Both colleges are located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Van Campen has a remarkable sense of design. Often the artist leaves much of the composition blank, thus drawing even more attention to her flowers and leaves. Her leaves have a fantastic sense of life and movement.
She is married to another artist, Tim Van Campen, who is a graphic designer, painter, and textile artist.
If you enjoy the way this artist paints flowers be sure and check out my post on another watercolor master often working with floral imagery, Gary Bukovnik.
Fidelia Bridges was an American painter renown for her wonderful paintings which were used for greeting cards. The first picture in the gallery is a sample of her work that was used for an Easter card. Fidelia Bridges was born in Salem, Massachusetts in the year 1834.
Her father was the captain of a steamship. Bridges’ mother and father both passed away when the artist was only fifteen years old. After this her older sister who was a teacher became in charge of the family. Bridges attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts where she was taught by the wonderful William Trost Richards. Bridges also studied abroad in Rome for a brief period.
William Trost Richards would serve as a lifelong friend and she became close to his family. Through Richards Bridges was introduced to many museum curators and collectors who expressed an interest in Bridges’ art.
Bridges was elected to membership in the National Academy of Design.
In this clip we view many works by Bridges, many which were used for greeting cards:
Fidelia Bridges passed away in 1934 at the age of 89 years of age.
With such wonderful designs the work of Fidelia Bridges reminds me of another artist renown for her paintings of flowers, Mary Elizabeth Price. Her subject matter of birds, nests, and flowers reminds me of artist Kathy Anderson.
Price range information: Bridges was a master painter in oils, and later in her career watercolors. Watercolors start around $8,000 and oils can reach $40,000. She created some lithographs but no price range is available for her prints.
Roland Reiss is an American artist renown or his work with floral and abstract subject matter. Roland Reiss was born in Chicago, Illinois in the year 1929. Reiss is both a painter and sculptor. He was one of the first artists to use plastic as a medium.
Reiss is also renown for his small tableaus, which are small interior living spaces, which he made himself and sealed in plexiglass.
Reiss earned a B.F.A. and M.F.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles. He went on to be an integral part of the Master’s Program of Claremont College located in Los Angles. He taught at the location for three decades and then retired to paint full time.
Below a retro on the artist’s career. This includes some mixed media works from the 1960s that were made from resin and foam:
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The artist grew up in Chicago, a child of the Depression era. One day his father packed up the family and they moved West to Los Angeles, California. His father would become a street car conductor.
Reiss has been the recipient of several grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.
One thing is for sure about the work of Reiss, his many decades of experience painting floral works have brought him a great deal of expertise at using shapes and color to create wonderful abstract art.
The artist is now based out of London, England. He works as a studio based artist and also a muralist.
Xenz is inspired by Asian art and the calligraphic strokes seen in Chinese painting. Xenz is my favorite street artist working with flowers and fauna simply for the fact he creates an extraordinary amount of depth in his works. My favorite images are of what seem to be a very dense and very humid rainforest with some exotic trees.
Xenz began his street art career in Hull, England back in 1987.
These works have it all from wonderful organic and geometric shapes, outstanding color, and movement through the picture. Xenz is also a great artist to study where he chooses to paint limbs and trees in order to make a flat surface have a great deal of depth.
price range information: Most spray paint works are between $3,000 and $10,000. Pricing schedule for oils.
To close we see the artist in action on a large mural of his favorite subject matter, flowers, fauna, and birds:
Dustin Yellin is a fantastic artist who makes 3 dimensional paintings in glass using acrylic paint. Dustin Yellin was born in Los Angeles, California in the year 1975. Yellin is a painter, collage artist, and draftsman who uses combines all of these skills when making one of his 3 dimensional works.
The artist moved to New York in 1995. He supported himself by performing street art.
Yellin uses a lot of glass in each work, even the smaller ones. In his studio we visit with James Kalm the artist tells us he had 15 tons of glass in his studio at the time of Kalm’s visit. Each layer is made individually and then layered upon each other to give the work tremendous depth.
The depth is best scene in his works with trees and forests. Many of these works are made just with one color of paint.
In this clip we visit the studio of Dustin Yellin with our art amigo James Kalm (from 2011) This clip is awesome because Mr. Kalm shoots images from the side and in front of the works so the realism and abstraction of each work is seen. :
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I enjoy the creativity of this artist. His acrylic trees are amazing! All the works in glass are so unique because they both explore the fields of abstraction, color, and realism. A visual feast for our eyes!
Ida O’Keeffe was an American painter who was o+ften overlooked by her more famous sister, Georgia O’Keeffe. Ida O’Keeffe born in the year 1889. Ida spent much of her childhood living in Wisconsin.
For her artistic education Ida O’Keeffe attended Columbia University located in New York.
Ida O’Keeffe passed away in 1961. Georgia O’Keeffe said she lived a wasted life.
It is said that Alfred Steiglitz was infatuated with Ida. Steiglitz took many pictures of Ida and these fetch far more than her works at auction.
Price range information: Works occasionally come on the market but not enough work to make a consistent price schedule.
Hopefully as the years go by we will learn more about this fascinating sibling rivalry!
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