The Unconventional Portrait: Moving Away From the Literal Likeness
Face of Me And My Art, 41 cm x 30 cm, 2014, painting, graphite and charcoal on paper by artist Gideon Fasola of Ibadan, Nigeria, Africa. The artist Gideon Fasola offers commissions of original fine...
View ArticleVideo: What Do Artists Do All Day?
I enjoyed this video of John Byrne, a Scottish artist and painter of a series of self-portraits and portraits. This artist has also had success as a writer for British television. Filed under: video
View ArticleRepresentation to Abstraction: Destroying the Figure in the 21st Century...
First of all, I’d like to congratulate artist Nadine Robbins — her painting is featured on the cover of Poets and Artists magazine. Poets and Artists has print and digital versions of their...
View ArticleDouble-Selfie Becomes Oil Painting via African Portrait Project Artist...
Thank-you to Jackie and partner for allowing us to share their double-selfie reference photo! The artist Anton Killian turned this photo into an original oil painting on canvas. Jackie chose the color...
View ArticleMetrov’s “Marie Portrait” for His People of Pax Series
Artist Metrov has honored me by adding my face to his P.O.P., People of Pax portrait series. It’s nice that he wanted to include me. I’ve written about his portrait series in two previous...
View ArticlePortrait Artist Offering Commissions Featured in TV Interview
TheoPencil at work Artist Theophilus Boateng Kwaku Sarpong, who goes by the shorter name Theo Pencil and often written as one word TheoPencil, creates large scale pencil portraits of African’s...
View ArticlePart One: More than 20 African Artists Offer Portrait Commissions Via...
More African artists continue to join the growing portrait service created by Dr. Keith McFarlane of Amsterdam. The African Portrait Service assists artists in Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, and...
View ArticlePart Two: 20+ African Artists Offering Portrait Commissions via International...
Part one features the first eleven artists here. Find out how to get your own portrait here. For Part Two, we’re featuring these artists–click on each artist’s name to read their bio and view more...
View ArticleArtists Featured in Magazines and Art News Feed
In the studio of contemporary African artist Benon Lutaaya, the contemporary African artist is one of the subjects of Lioda Conrad’s portrait series Artist Marketing Resources does a lot of article...
View ArticleVideo: Introducing the African Artists Coming Soon to EN1 Prints
Introducing the African Artists coming soon to www.en1prints.co.uk * Filed under: Portraits Africa
View ArticleCommission Your Affordable Portrait From African Artist Peter Asare
Peter Asare portrait Select your portrait reference photos or create a new selfie, then chat with African artist Peter Asare to discuss portrait ideas (email Asare Peter manlyricaca@yahoo.co.uk )....
View ArticleCommission Your Portrait From African Artist Moses Marquis Okpeyowa Now in...
Double Expectation by Moses Marques Okpeyowa Select your reference photos or create a new selfie, then chat with African artist Moses Marquis Okpeyowa of Nigeria who now lives in Chicago, and discuss...
View ArticleConnecting With Art Collectors via Artist Catalogs
Will Smith, cut paper and ink, Marco Gallotta PoetsArtists Magazine began publishing a series of full color art catalogs in 2015, of collections of artists’ work that, so far, includes paintings by...
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