Self-portrait. Illustrator Morgan Davidson

22 year old artist illustrator Morgan Davidson has recently graduated from Ringling College with her BFA in illustration. Davidson is a traditional Illustrator focusing on conceptual portraiture, primarily drawn in colored pencil. She grew up in Southwest Florida and has always had a strong passion for drawing and an artistic career from a young age. The young, talented and beautiful American artist writes on her blog – “Through my years at Ringling I began to take my interest in nature and fashion and enthusiasm for portraiture and formed a body of work portrayed through vibrant color and rich detail. I aspire to build a career as a freelance artist, helping companies and individuals make their creative ideas come to life”.
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Crow in a tree. Painting by Russian artist Elina Forget-me-not

Russian artist Elina Forget-me-not
Born in the Estonian city of Tallin, Elina, known as “Forget-me-not”, is an icon painter and restorer. According to her biography, she graduated from two schools of art. First, in 2003, from the College of Applied Arts at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Second, in 2009 with honors from St. Petersburg State Art and Industry Academy named after A.L. Stieglitz (former “Mukhina Academy”). When Elina was a student of Department of Painting and Restoration at the Faculty of monumental art St. Petersburg Academy, she began working in the State Russian Museum. Meanwhile, her teacher was M.D. Uryupina. Besides, for five years, every summer she practiced in the Yaroslavl Museum-Preserve restoring icons. In addition to restoring works she gilded wood carvings, and polychrome wooden sculpture. The artist is now living in Borisovo, Moscow region.
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Beautiful female floral portrait by Chinese artist Wendy Ng

Chinese artist Wendy Ng
Easily recognized, paintings by Wendy Ng – female portraits against textured background. Hong Kong born artist Wendy Ng got her education in the United States, Belgium and the United Kingdom. According to Wendy Ng, she has always had passion for art. Besides, she studied in Wimbledon School of Art and Design and has experience of working in advertising and publishing companies. Wendy Ng paints in the traditional technique but takes her ideas further by experimenting with patterns and textures creating a balance between Real-life Art and Abstract Art. In particular, Wendy Ng captures beauty and femininity decorating it with floral background. With emotions captured in every face of her subjects, she is also able to create various patterns. They include geometrical art, leaves, rose petals, floral ornaments, spheres, pixels, squares, and many other shapes. The way she infuses these media into a luxurious form of portrait art is amazing indeed.
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The human spider, painted on ultra-flexible model – contortionist. Emma Fay body art

There is something frightening and at the same time appealing in the living sculptures of 27-year-old British artist Emma Fay. Body art in conjunction with the flexibility of acrobats and fantasy of the artist using water-based paints, a brush and sponge, is transformed into a beautiful work of art. It is not immediately possible to make out the human body in the picture. First you look at the landscape and suddenly begin to distinguish someone’s arm, or neck. Or you look into the eyes of an amazing bull, and it turns out that it is perfectly folded back. Lovely people, temples are and wonderful people-insects are.
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Big Clouds. Painting by Belgian neo-impressionist painter Theo van Rysselberghe (1862-1926), 1893. The Indianapolis Museum of Art

Belgian neo-impressionist painter Theo van Rysselberghe Originally from a French-speaking bourgeois family of architects, he began studying art in Ghent and then in Brussels. His first paintings were classical. However, later influenced by Neo-Impressionist theories, and the newest tendencies in European art, he moved toward impressionism. Also, Rysselberghe had become friendly with the most prominent artists of the time. In particular, Seurat, Signac and Cross.
IOn fact, he began to practice divisionism in his portrait painting using small dots of different sizes on a canvas. Practicing this divisionist technique, known as pointillism, until about 1910, he, however, returned to classic style at the end of his life.
Rysselberghe often went abroad, mostly to Morocco, but finally had settled in Paris in 1898. Noteworthy, he had a great influence on the development of’ Neo-Impressionism in Belgium. A retrospective exhibition of his works took place in 1927 in Brussels, a year after his death.
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The Kept, Middlebury Magazine. Illustrators Anna and Elena Balbusso

Italian Illustrators Anna and Elena Balbusso
Twin sisters born in a small town of Udine, Italy, Anna and Elena Balbusso’s interest in art started at an early age. According to them, they remember themselves drawing at the age of three. Having finished art school and high school in their home town, the sisters entered the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. In the 1990s, they became members ofy the Italian Illustrators Association. Since 1998 they have been working as a team doing freelance illustration with the unique signature ANNA+ELENA=BALBUSSO.
The artwork of freelance illustrators Anna and Elena appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, and exhibited in numerous art exhibitions and galleries in Italy, France, U.S., UK, Canada, and the Republic of Korea.
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Herbs in the snowy field. Abe Toshiyuki hyperrealistic watercolors

Abe Toshiyuki hyperrealistic watercolors
Born in 1959 in Sakata, Abe Toshiyuki is a talented Japanese watercolorist who received his artistic education at the National University. And after graduation he worked as a teacher of drawing and painting for about 20 years. According to Toshiyuki, his long-standing desire to become an artist made him leave teaching in 2008 to concentrate on the dream of his life. Currently Toshiyuki Abe is intensively working as an artist and takes an active part in art exhibitions.
Noteworthy, for his incredible painting the artist has got several prestigious awards. “In my works I focus on the nuances and subtleties of the simple things that surround us”. Traditionally, the Japanese show a deep love and respect for nature, and their painting reflects the poetic description of fragility of nature. And this same idea – largely expressed in Abe Toshiyuki hyperrealistic watercolors.
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