Beautiful yellow flowers, known as “Adelmoschus manihot”. Zeng Xiao Lian botanical watercolor

Zeng Xiao Lian botanical watercolor
Born in 1939 in Yunnan Province, Zeng Xiao Lian is a talented Chinese artist. He worked as a senior engineer of the Botanical Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences. In addition, Lian received artistic training in Beijing. The artist has painted a series of beautiful botanical images of flowers and birds. These accurate detailed images have been published in more than fifty books, including – “Flora of China”, “Flora and Rhododendrons Yunnan” and others. Paintings by Lian participated in numerous national exhibitions in China, as well as in the United States, Canada and Australia.
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Yellow flowers. Monika Jasnauskaite Pencil Drawing

Monika Jasnauskaite Pencil Drawing
Born 11 May 1992 in Vilnius, Lithuania, young and talented self-taught artist Monica studies at the Institute of Molecular Biology. Monika loves nature, fantasy and science fiction, so she combines realistic objects with surreal details. “I like to use colored and graphite pencils, pens and pastels”, says she.
According to Monica, she is still uncertain what career she should choose – a biologist, or an artist. Noteworthy, Monica started drawing only 7 years ago, when she first saw realistic pencil drawings on the net. Inspired by pencil art of other artists, she started learning the technique of drawing and has achieved much progress in it. Thus, 22-year-old self-taught artist Monica Jasnauskaite has won several awards at the international art competitions. In particular, Colorful Dream, 2011, Poland; Hear the secret language of nature, 2011, Lithuania; Fantasy Garden, 2010, London; Child and dog, 2010, Poland; and Sports Figures, 2010, Lithuania.
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Inspired by Natalia Vodianova fan art

Natalia Vodianova fan art
World famous fashion model Natalia Vodianova is a real inspiration and muse for artists – professional and amateur, or just her fans. Accordingly, drawings and paintings devoted to a beautiful person, a mother of four children, actress and philanthropist Natalia Vodianova appear on the net.
In September 2002, Natalia Vodianova became the most popular model of the New York Fashion Week. Thus, she appeared in shows of nineteen designers, including Anna Sui and Ralph Lauren, defile of which she presented. Natalia Born 28 February 1982 in Nizhny Novgorod, Vodianova was 16, when a local modeling agency scout noticed her. According to the legend, it wasa while Natasha was selling vegetables on the streets. The girl went to Moscow for the casting of the French agency Viva, and from there – straight to Paris. Thus began her path to fame.
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Colorful street art installation by Sand artist Joe Mangrum

Sand artist Joe Mangrum
New York based artist Joe Mangrum studied painting at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The art portfolio of Joe consists of installations, paintings, prints and sculpture. However, Mangrum became best known for his colorful sand mandalas. According to Joe Mangrum, he first picked up colored sand as a medium in 2006. Meanwhile, he turned his kaleidoscopic images into a 4 dimensional painting, interacting with viewers.
And now, handsome and talented street artist exhibits his artworks worldwide. In particular, in Red Gate Gallery in Beijing, Museum of Arts and Design in NYC, Natural World Museum in Copenhagen, de Young Museum of San Francisco, The Corcoran Gallery Rotunda in Washington DC, etc. Noteworthy, he has created more than 500 public sand-paintings since 2009.
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Female portrait. Work by American painter James Christensen

American painter James Christensen
Born September 26, 1942 in Culver City, California,James Christensen is an amazing artist with a great sense of style and inexhaustible imagination. Christensen lived a few blocks from the film studio MGM and had the opportunity as a child to play with friends in the halls, where they filmed the movie “Tarzan” and “Gone With the Wind.” James always had a great imagination and loved to write all sorts of stories, full of details. He studied painting at the Los Angeles University, but had to interrupt his studies.
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Graphite on paper hyperrealistic drawing by Brian Boulton, Canadian artist

Hyperrealistic drawing by Brian Boulton
Undoubtedly, the art created by Canadian artist deserves recognition and admiration. Not known what psychological nuances the artist hides behind almost all of these people drawn from the back. According to the artist, for preimages he uses photographs, removing during the work on drawing all the details of urban environment surrounding the subject of his image. Thus, the artist achieves the complete anonymity of his models. Depicting them from the back he gets their most natural position, which is difficult to achieve in a legal photo session.
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19th century dish “Mermaid”. Hand-painted in the style of Russian Art Nouveau. Dish with the effect of craquelure, on the back side of the dish is an old patina. Traditional Russian wood painting by Albina Ustyugova

Traditional Russian wood painting by Albina Ustyugova

According to painter and restorer Albina Ustyugova, she has been working in traditional wood painting for over 20 years. Interested in the Byzantine and Old Russian ornament, Ustyugova loves Russian nouveau, paints and ages new things. In her art gallery – lots of vintage items that master restores and paints. These are unique everyday objects: spinning wheels, Rubel, rocker, dishes, collars, pail and other rustic utensils.
Albina is an architect, member of the International Art Fund. She has participated in exhibitions in Russia and abroad. Her works are in private collections around the world. Albina has a wide variety of styles of traditional Russian painting: Boretsky, Permogorsky, Mezensky, Gorodetsky, and many others.
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