I'm grateful for the positive responses I've received from sharing representative works by artists I admire. This French painter styled himself Count Balthusar Klowsinski de Rolla (even the spelling thereof is disputed), but he's most known as simply Balthus. Here's a...

"Blueberries with Tulip and Apricot." Oil on linen by Susan Jane Walp. Her tender little still life paintings break my heart. The color, the composition, the delicate brushwork. Gentle, quiet.

Eyvind Earle painted the backgrounds for the Disney classic, "Cinderella," plus other animated feature films of the era. Later he found success as a fine art painter of imaginative landscapes built upon the color, design and pattern foundation he established as an...