Artists

I am really interested in this piece of Todd Lanam's because of the way it is rendered, with transparent layers.  It is interesting how one can see through the brick wall into the greenery on the other side.  This is the complete opposite direction in which I have been going in my current piece because I've been constructing blocks of wood to make the wall as opaque and obvious as possible, but I wonder if I could use this effect in blurring parts of the background.   I love the contrast between the red and the blue paint and the corner- it finishes if off really nicely.

This Rauschenberg is a favorite piece of mine, mainly due to the left-hand side.  I really want to look into collaging and pushing that more than I have in the past.  Its interesting that he added vintage-like photos.  Maybe by adding some vintage elements I could antique my pieces in attempt to date them- but I don't want to cross the line of being cliche.  I'll have to think about this more in my upcoming pieces.

I think Yu-Shioh Wong's Afternoon Light is an interesting way of combining two ideas about one object!  My side piece critiques two views of a plant but both are 2-D.  This takes it a step farther into actual life.  

I love Gerhard Richter's textures:

I played around with something very similar to this in my painting this morning, but so far I am not convinced it works in the context of the rest of the painting.  Maybe I will go back to this textural painting style once things are more established.

Jennifer Bartlett also had to work to ensure that she conveyed all parts about the image she needed to while having the canvas split up and some parts of the image unavailable:

David Hockney's portrayal of paths is one solution to a problem I've been trying to work with in my painting: how to add a fantastical path which trails off into the background while making it halfway convincing at the same time (and not dominating the image!)  This image is really helpful to me:

I really enjoy this image by Eggebrecht.  Ive never seen it before, so thank you!  Very captivating, mysterious.  Not too much is revealed but it still has a surreal, mysterious effect to it.  Interesting how she made the wood very realistic.  Do you know if this is a collage of real wood or is it painted?

It is really interesting that you brought this image up by Van Gogh- I did a painting of shoes about 4 years ago which looks similar to this, but I've never seen this image before.  How interesting!  Although his use of texture is much more convincing than how I painted my own set of old boots.   I really enjoy this picture, and will definitely keep this in mind when working with more found objects of my childhood in later paintings.

here's my old painting:
(I'll post this later because for some reason it keeps rejecting it in the upload)