Family harmony. Painting made out of colored pencils. Pencil art by Federico Uribe, Colombian artist

Pencil art by Federico Uribe – impressive paintings, sculptures and installations made entirely out of pencils. Colored pencils – the most amazing source of creativity. They can not only draw, they can be used as the material at hand, the same as a sculptor uses clay, and the artist – paint. Colombian artist Uribe has created a series called “Pencilism” – amazing paintings and sculptures of colored pencils. His incredible creations are amazing and perfect in every detail, perfectly performed by the game of color and size. And, if we discard the notion of classical works of art, the work of Federico Uribe may well be regarded as masterpieces of modern art. And that is very realistic three-dimensional artwork of landscapes, animals and people.
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Child & Mother, pencil on paper. Drawings by Laurie Lipton

Drawings by Laurie Lipton. Laurie Lipton is one of the leading contemporary artists of our time. Her ideal from the point of view of technology and frightening content pictures leave no one indifferent: her drawings are loved or hated. Laurie Lipton has been drawing since age 4. Laurie Lipton studied 17th century Dutch masters to develop her own unique style of pencil drawing. The subject of her art – death in beautiful detail. Now the artist lives and works in England
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Michael Canning, Allemande, oil on gessoed wood panel

Irish artist Michael Canning
Born in County Limerick, Ireland in 1971, Michael Canning studied art at his native Limerick at the School of Art and Design. After finishing school he went to Greece to study at the School of Fine Arts in Athens. But his master’s degree in fine arts he received in 1999 in the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. Michael actively participated in art exhibitions across the United Kingdom. In 2003 he was awarded the prestigious Hennessy Craig Award, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. His paintings of hedgerow plants confront the traditions of northern European painting.
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Self-portrait with owl. 1911. Dutch painter Jan Mankes

Dutch painter Jan Mankes(15 August 1889 – 23 April 1920, Eerbeek)
For his short life (he died of tuberculosis at the age of 30) Mankes has created a priceless collection of 200 paintings, 100 drawings and 50 prints. Jan Mankes led a quiet life in a self-chosen isolation in De Knipe, Friesland, far from the cultural capitals of Europe. The talented artist had a reputation as an ascetic. His paintings included self-portraits, landscapes, flora and fauna studies. Artworks of Mankes are mostly exhibited in the Scheringa Museum of Realism, the Museum of Modern Art Arnhem and Museum Belvedere Heerenveen, in his native Netherlands.
Born into the family of tax inspector, he went to high school in Meppel in 1902, but in 1903 his father received a new assignment, and the family moved to Delft. In 1904 Mankes studiesd at artist Jan Schouten’s workshop in Delft. In his spare time he learned the art of stained glass at Hermanus Veldhuis’ (1878-1954) workshop, and serves as an assistant in his work. There is evidence that Mankes participated in the restoration of stained glass in St. John’s Church in Gouda.
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Portrait of William III of England, aged 10, in a flower garland decorated with symbols of the House of Orange. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon. Dutch painter Jan Davidszoon de Heem

Dutch painter Jan Davidszoon de Heem
Representative of Dutch and Flemish Baroque painting, Jan Davidszoon de Heem (b. 1606, Utrecht, d. 1684, Antwerpen) studied first under his father David de Heem the Elder (1570–1631). Also, under Balthasar van der Ast. Considered one of the greatest painters of his time, he was well paid and a portrait of Prince William III surrounded by a cartouche of flowers and fruit was sold for 2000 guilders. Noteworthy, it was one of the highest prices ever paid for a painting during the Dutch Golden Age.
His sons worked together with him in his workshop on the commissions for new paintings. He retouched their work and put his signature on the paintings.
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Glass bottles filled with unique Sandpainting by Andrew Clemens (January 29, 1857 – May 14, 1894)

Sandpainting by Andrew Clemens and John Adams
Sold for $5–7 in the 19th century, their paintings now reach 40-50 thousand dollars at auctions. Iowa sand artists Andrew Clemens and John Adams, became famous for their unique sandpainting. To create such painting the artists inserted the presorted grains of sand into small glass drug bottles using a homemade tools formed out of hickory sticks and florists wire. John Adams was a railroad man, who lived just upriver from and became familiar with Clemens. Unlike Clemens, he attempted complex landscapes.
Andrew Clemens was born in Dubuque, Iowa, on January 29, 1857. At a young age Andrew suffered encephalitis which caused his lifelong deafness. He attended the Iowa State School for the Deaf and Dumb. Clemens would collect naturally colored grains of sand at Pictured Rocks, where sandstone was naturally colored by iron and mineral staining. Clemens separated the sand grains into piles, by color, and used them to form the basis for his art.
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Japanese motif. Painting by Mongolian artist Zayasaikhan Sambuu (Zaya)

Mongolian artist Zayasaikhan Sambuu
Born in a small town of Baatsagaan (Southern Mongolia) in 1975, Sambuu is a talented young artist. In the teenage years Zaya, inspired by portraits of Buddhist gods, as well as freedom of religion, deepened into Buddhism. Aged 15, he decided to become a monk. However, after studying Tibetan religious texts for two years, he realized that art attracts him more than religion. As a result, aged 17, Zaya entered the Soyol Fine Art College in Ulan Bator. After graduating from college, he went on to study at the Mongolian State University of Culture and Arts, from which he graduated in 2002.
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