Artist Kim Langlois describes how using alcohol ink is a perfect fit for her fluid style of painting, and how she has embraced teaching others to use this medium. ABI: Why use alcohol ink as your medium? What is compelling about it? KL: My style of painting is very loose. Since the inks […]
Artist: Mary Ahern
August 17, 2018 by
Artist Mary Ahern paints larger than life portraits of flowers. Enjoy her portfolio and her artist story. ABI: Tell us about your creative journey and how you developed your current body of work. MA: My paintings begin in the garden. The gardens that I designed surrounding my studio provide the source material for […]
Artist: Leah Wiedemer
August 10, 2018 by
Artist Leah Wiedemer describes how a love of traveling and personal connections have inspired her latest love of painting landscapes in oil. ABI: How have your artwork and mediums evolved through the years? LW: Beginning with watercolor painting florals and still lifes, I next moved on to mural painting with acrylics; then figurative, […]
Artist: Connie Mae Moeller
August 7, 2018 by
Painting the beauty of the scenery around her with a focus on capturing the subtle nuances of light and shadow, artist Connie Mae Moeller describes her process. ABI: What draws you to focus on landscape painting? CMM: When I’m outdoors and observing what is around me, it balances my being and I feel […]
Artist: Ellen Kantro
August 3, 2018 by
Abandoned places and how they came to be abandoned are major influences.
Artist: Denna Arnold
July 27, 2018 by
Currently, my focus is to create individual, unique, one-of-a-kind functional art pieces that will be future family heirlooms.
Artist: Francine Gourguechon
July 20, 2018 by
The human body as art and body decoration appears in every culture and is used to symbolize seduction, ritual, social standing or threat.
Artist: Marie Noorani
July 13, 2018 by
Artist Marie Noorani‘s richly textured hand-made paper art express her love of the medium and her fascination with the process of destruction and renewal. ABI: You are a paper maker. How did you fall in love with this medium? MN: I discovered paper making through the book arts; for many years, bookbinding was […]
Artist: Karlie Carpentier Rosin
July 6, 2018 by
Canadian illustrator and painter Karlie Carpentier Rosin shares her colorful portfolio and her artist story. ABI: How has your illustration work evolved over time? KCR: My illustration work has evolved in a few ways. My techniques have matured from fully traditional to mixing those techniques with digital software such as Photoshop. The way […]
Artist: Jill DeFelice
June 29, 2018 by
I think “the story” is not only part of selling the art, but also creating it.
