The Oil Painting Blog

Entomologist/artist Christopher Marley has spent a lot of time in the remote environments where the worlds most beautiful bugs scuttle and click. Now he is more at home in his studio, artfully arranging the brilliantly colorful exoskeletons of these insect wonders into compositions that might suggest schools of fish, precious stones, or traffic jams...

Kazuyuki Ohtsu served for forty years as the assistant to Kiyoshi Saito, a woodblock artist at the forefront of the sosaku hanga movement. Instead of the division of labor relied on by Hiroshige, Hokusai, and virtually every other Japanese printmaker who preceded them, the creative print artists handled every step of the production of prints themselves...

Born in 1947 in Tokyo, Hajime Namiki uses traditional printmaking skills passed down over many generations to create his images of nature and myth. An underlying ground of gold or silver on handmade Torinoko paper adds to his prints luminous quality, suggesting sunshine seen through foliage...

William Seltzer Rice (18731963) was born in Pennsylvania but moved to Northern California in 1900, when the regions Arts & Crafts movement was flowering. A talented and prolific watercolorist, Rice taught at various schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, including the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oaklanda center for the movement...

The images on these notecards are from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, which houses more than 500 lacquer objects from throughout Asia. Includes 4 different designs with 5 cards of each design for a total of 20 blank note cards.

This Eco-friendly Blank Journal is perfect for your journaling needs. It can be used as a diary, dream journal, or even as a sketchbook.

A boxed assortment of 20 cards, 2 each of 10 different designs. English production of classic Erte (French Artist) designs. Suitable for invitations, general cards, events etc.

One dozen assorted cream-colored embossed cards featuring designs by Frank Lloyd Wright. This boxed set contains 3 cards each of 4 designs and a dozen white envelopes. Frank Lloyd Wright's genius did not stop with his revolutionary architecture...

The Yudu screen-printing system is the easiest, cleanest way to let everyone know who you are—and how you see the world. With this water-resistant ink-jet transparency, you can create your own designs on your computer, print them off and then use them in your Yudu machine...

Simple, elegant on white/creamy stationery notecards and envelopes. Ideally for the on-the-go women who loves to write notes, thank you cards, or keep in touch correspondence. There are 6 notecards, envelopes with a clear packaging slip for each notecard...