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Category: Issue One
Featured Artist – Haimeng Cao
Haimeng Cao is a freelance artist in Los Angeles, and works for film and game industry. His skills focus on concept design and visual development. The medium of the work is digital painting, rendering and modeling. He was influenced by several dystopian novels, especially 1984 and Brave New World, and the artists such as Mobius and Katsuhiro Otomo. The theme of his work is mainly about future city landscape design, the atmosphere and mood of the works otherwise indicate the totalitarian and formalized future societies. Every piece of work has unique camera angle and displays spectacular panorama of the city. Each city has different architecture styles and atmospheres. The story is established within those techniques.
Featured Artist
Haimeng Cao – Irvine, CA
Haimeng Cao is a freelance artist in Los Angeles, and works for film and game industry. His skills focus on concept design and visual development. The medium of the work is digital painting, rendering and modeling. He was influenced by several dystopian novels, especially 1984 and Brave New World, and the artists such as Mobius and Katsuhiro Otomo. The theme of his work is mainly about future city landscape design, the atmosphere and mood of the works otherwise indicate the totalitarian and formalized future societies. Every piece of work has unique camera angle and displays spectacular panorama of the city. Each city has different architecture styles and atmospheres. The story is established within those techniques.
Battle Machinary
Digital Art
3500×5915
City Rig System
Digital Art
3000×1286
Rig Structure
Digital Art
5236×3500
Tank and Heavy Cannon
Digital Art
3000×1285
Issue One Selected Artists
Issue One Selected Artists
Selected Artists – Issue One
20 Artists in no particular order to be featured in issue one of Outsider – Art from the Outside.
B. Lucy Stevens – Providence, RI
Robert Frankel – Wilmette, IL
Sue Moerder – Hammonton, NJ
Luke Whiteside – Seven Springs, NC
Maryanne Chisholm – Tucson, AZ
Alexandra Mia Monkewitz – Vienna, Austria
Liam The Wind – Los Angeles, CA
Cecily Fazekas – Sedona, AZ
Pedro Troncoso – Bronx, NY
Orla Bird – Zagreb, Croatia
Fotios Balas – Thessaloniki, Greece
John McCabe – Laguna Niguel, CA
Anna Deligianni – Athens, Greece
Samuuel Case – Coatesville, PA
Allen Egan – Gatineau, Quebec
Ricky De La Cruz – Nashville, TN
Andy Dykeman – St. Louis, MO
Charlotte Rodgers – Bath, UK
Goda Mačėnaitė – Vilnius, Lithuania
Simon Gower – Plettenberg Bay, South Africa
Featured Artist – B. Lucy Stevens
B. Lucy Stevens – Providence, RI
Instagram
B. Lucy Stevens is an internationally recognized, self-taught artist living in Providence, Rhode Island. Lucy paints intuitively, her work is vibrant and expressionistic, daily life imagined in a brilliant cacophony of color and pattern. She is inspired by primitive and outsider art and her far-flung travels, from South America, to Indonesia to the South of France, where she lived for a year on a flower farm.
Lucy leads art workshops for children in underserved communities and for adults with developmental disabilities, and she is hugely inspired by their art as well. Her work has been featured in galleries and shows throughout the U.S. as well as in France and the U.K.
My paintings are everything I think and feel and witness, everything I find funny and sad and absurd. They are my offering of myself to the world.
Bali Dreaming
acrylic, collage, oil pastel on canvas
30×40
Checkered Dress Lady
acrylic, collage, oil pastel on canvas
30×40
Bus Stop
acrylic, collage, oil pastel
30×40
Girl and Devil
acrylic, oil pastel on canvas
24×36
Featured Artist – Amy O’Hearn
I’m Amy O’Hearn, a New Orleans artist who works from home. Art has saved my soul. For years, I felt I had no inspiration, I was restrained by a rigid job and completely drained every day. Until I started painting. Through a meditative and intuitive approach, I have ignited my passion and unleashed my creativity. I thrive on the risk and spontaneity of not having a plan before I start to paint, I clear my mind and let the colors and the brush take me away. I find it very fulfilling when other people interpret my art, noticing things I haven’t. When possible, I like to name my paintings after the visions others see.
Featured Artist
Amy O’Hearn – New Orleans, LA
Instagram
Artist Bio:
I’m Amy O’Hearn, a New Orleans artist who works from home. Art has saved my soul. For years, I felt I had no inspiration, I was restrained by a rigid job and completely drained every day. Until I started painting. Through a meditative and intuitive approach, I have ignited my passion and unleashed my creativity. I thrive on the risk and spontaneity of not having a plan before I start to paint, I clear my mind and let the colors and the brush take me away. I find it very fulfilling when other people interpret my art, noticing things I haven’t. When possible, I like to name my paintings after the visions others see.
Artist statement:
My artwork is the culmination of tiny triumphs and mistakes that make it beautiful. I choose different colors and add new layers each time I work on a painting. Each session inspires the choices for the next. I might dislike the shapes or colors one day, but I will keep them in and continue to build until it transforms into something I love. I use a variety of brushes, artist tools and multiple layers that provide texture in my pieces. I especially like to use detail brushes for smooth natural edges, spotting (dots) and subtle combinations of color. When painting subject matter, I like to incorporate the same intuitive approach. The object is the inspiration and my painting is not constrained to the rules of reality. I accomplish this through color choices, not-to-scale sketching, experimenting with the background and the use of bold outlines.
Soul Elevator
Oil on Canvas
14 in X 11 in
Rosettes
Oil on Wood board
26 in X 17 in
Lady of the Forest
Oil on Canvas
14 in X 11 in
Wind and Waves
Acrylic on Canvas
12 in X 12 in
Featured Artist – Kathy Copsey
Kathy S. Copsey is a self-taught artist and has been a serious artist since the age of 8 years old. Her focus is on pencil and digital drawings and acrylic and oil paintings, but she works with other mediums as well including computer graphics and minor video editing and production. Kathy’s purpose as an artist is to share, convey, and recreate the love and passion that she feels in whatever the subject matter is that she is working with. Through the creation of art, one is able to explore one’s passions, perhaps creating inspiration and the drive within others to strive for their own goals.
Featured Artist
Kathy Copsey – Camarillo, CA
Instagram
Kathy S. Copsey is a self-taught artist and has been a serious artist since the age of 8 years old. Her focus is on pencil and digital drawings and acrylic and oil paintings, but she works with other mediums as well including computer graphics and minor video editing and production. Kathy’s purpose as an artist is to share, convey, and recreate the love and passion that she feels in whatever the subject matter is that she is working with. Through the creation of art, one is able to explore one’s passions, perhaps creating inspiration and the drive within others to strive for their own goals.
Always continually striving to learn and improve her craft, Kathy works with all kinds of subject matters, but her main specialty focuses on animals and nature. She has always loved animals since very young, and she loves being able to convey their spirits and souls thru her art. You can find Kathy’s artwork throughout Ventura and LA counties as well as online thru her website (www.ksdesigns16.com), online vendors, and social media, and she has had her artwork spread as far away as two Kung Fu schools in China. No matter what she already has ready and available, she is always more than happy to create that special custom piece for every request and occasion.
The Dream Of A Nebula Coming To Life
Medium
Acrylic on Canvas
Size
22×28″
The Fury Within
Medium
Digital Drawing
Size
9×12″
Crane Spirit
Medium
Pencil Drawing
Size
9×12″
When Tiger Meets Dragon
Medium
Pencil Drawing
Size
9×12″
Featured Artist – Cate Peacock
I paint because I must. I paint for the memory of my daughter who loved animals.
Featured Artist
Cate Peacock – Sacramento, CA
I paint because I must. I paint for the memory of my daughter who loved animals.
A Warm Goat
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
3′ x 2′ x 4″
Goat in a fur coat
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
3′ x 2′ x 4″
Nathalie’s Blonde
Medium
Oil on Canvas
Size
20″x 24″x1″
A Sheep in Goat’s Clothing
Medium
Oil on Canvas
Size
20″x 24″x1″
Featured Artist – Anindita Dasgupta
Featured Artist – Anindita Dasgupta
Featured Artist
Anindita Dasgupta – Dallas, TX
Instagram
A self-taught artist, I make abstract, intuitive and impressionistic floral art, occasionally foraying into landscapes. Use of colors is very vivid in all my pieces. They are mostly acrylics on both canvas and paper, a few are mixed media (mostly acrylic and soft pastels) and watercolor too. I have also started with Digital Art form, and there are a couple of those pieces that you will find in my shop.
Art has been my passion from the time I was a little girl, however, I had to navigate through life’s very arduous challenges for over two decades. During this time of severity, when I had a formidable task of just surviving with dignity, my art was all forgotten. Though I always wanted to paint but I kept losing touch and more importantly I started losing my confidence and I felt my brushes would not be in my control, my colors would not look beautiful enough on canvas. But as fate and my undying desire for creating art would have had it, fast forward 2016, one fine day I just walked up to ‘Michael’s’, and bought a bunch of art supplies and that day, it was after after 23 years that I picked up my paint brush once again and I haven’t stopped even for a day ever since.
I am in awe of great artists like Van Gogh, Claude Monet, Gustav Klimt- whose use of gold in his art fascinates me. Among more contemporary artists, I truly admire the works of Karen Silve, Erin Gregory, Flora Bowley and I am also thoroughly inspired by them.
My long lost love and gratification- ART- is my absolute full time engagement now. Learning, painting, experimenting, creating, experiencing the euphoria and marveling at destiny, the opportunity this country has given me and at God’s ways to reward! I have finally started my Etsy shop a little over a month ago. I also direct sell my original art pieces for now. I hope to spread vibes n vibrancy of colors through my work. I also hope that my art will delight people and bring positive energy for all who see and own them!
Spring Flora
Acrylic on paper
8×8 inches
Summer
Acrylic on paper
8×10 inches
Italia
Acrylic on Canvas
11×14 inches
For Spring
Acrylic on paper
5×7 inches
Featured Artist – Mary Webster
Mary’s pathway began in her teens drawing ponies where she found her love of the ink pen.Living in the UK and working as a practicing registered nurse she continues to develop her art between Erotica and surreal abstracts in Acrylics and ink.She won an award in May 2017 for ‘Award of Excellence for Erotic Drawing ‘ at the Swiss Art Gallery in Lausanne,Switzerland after showing 6 works in a group show in May 2017 .Two of her Erotic artworks were published by Erotic Signature in the books ‘The World’s Greatest Erotic Art’ volume 3 and volume 5.Erotica continued in April 2018 where she showed 9 works in London’s first ever Erotic art show giving Mary a tremendous boost of confidence to carry on her art pathway.
Featured Artist
Mary Webster – Peterborough, UK
Mary’s pathway began in her teens drawing ponies where she found her love of the ink pen.Living in the UK and working as a practicing registered nurse she continues to develop her art between Erotica and surreal abstracts in Acrylics and ink.She won an award in May 2017 for ‘Award of Excellence for Erotic Drawing ‘ at the Swiss Art Gallery in Lausanne,Switzerland after showing 6 works in a group show in May 2017 .Two of her Erotic artworks were published by Erotic Signature in the books ‘The World’s Greatest Erotic Art’ volume 3 and volume 5.Erotica continued in April 2018 where she showed 9 works in London’s first ever Erotic art show giving Mary a tremendous boost of confidence to carry on her art pathway.
Watercolor and ink
28 cm x 20 cm
Watercolor and Ink
28 cm x 20 cm
Watercolor and Ink
39 cm x 56 cm H X W
Acrylic and ink
37 cm x 46 cm
Featured Artist – Tatiana Klimov
A native Russian from Saint Petersburg, Russia, Tatiana found her second home in Los Alamos 23 years ago. In spite of having a college degree in metallurgy, she has worked in the fashion and beauty business. In Russia, she owned and ran a private crafts school. Shortly after relocating to the US, she opened her own business “Nature Care for Skin & Hair.” She has always enjoyed designing and making clothes, knitting, crochet, quilt, and embroidery based on her own designs. Even as a child she had passion for art and especially drawing. Around last spring 2017 she decided to pursue her desire for expressing her inner self in the form of “Happy paintings.” Her philosophy of paintings is to portray positive energy and happiness by splashing bright colors on canvas to share the beauty and inspiration she finds through her love of nature. In nature, there are shapes, colors, textures, fragrances, sounds, and tastes to be experienced. From rock formations to butterflies, all forms of natural scenery have a deep internal message of their essence. Tatiana is attempting to convey that spiritualis, or “breath,” from the nature around us, to the viewer through her art. She weaves a waltz of colors and shapes into a “happy dance,” to make the day of the viewer a better place.
Featured Artist
Tatiana Klimov – Los Alamos, NM
A native Russian from Saint Petersburg, Russia, Tatiana found her second home in Los Alamos 23 years ago. In spite of having a college degree in metallurgy, she has worked in the fashion and beauty business. In Russia, she owned and ran a private crafts school. Shortly after relocating to the US, she opened her own business “Nature Care for Skin & Hair.” She has always enjoyed designing and making clothes, knitting, crochet, quilt, and embroidery based on her own designs. Even as a child she had passion for art and especially drawing. Around last spring 2017 she decided to pursue her desire for expressing her inner self in the form of “Happy paintings.” Her philosophy of paintings is to portray positive energy and happiness by splashing bright colors on canvas to share the beauty and inspiration she finds through her love of nature. In nature, there are shapes, colors, textures, fragrances, sounds, and tastes to be experienced. From rock formations to butterflies, all forms of natural scenery have a deep internal message of their essence. Tatiana is attempting to convey that spiritualis, or “breath,” from the nature around us, to the viewer through her art. She weaves a waltz of colors and shapes into a “happy dance,” to make the day of the viewer a better place.
oil
24″x24″
oil
12″x12″
oil
12″x12″
oil
12″x12″
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