Mark Smith

The motivating factor behind my artwork could be described as – ‘being inspired themes from the Constructivist Manifesto to try to access what I perceive to be the essence of any given text or story’, or – ‘I just like drawing pictures’. There’s an equal amount of truth in both of those statements.

Title: msmithTorLambLion
Caption: The Lamb Will Slaughter The Lion
Description: Cover art for Margaret Killjoy's 'The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion'
Title: msmithExeterBulletin
Caption: How to build a better sense of self.
Description: Cover art for The Exeter Bulletin
Title: msmithESPNAlicover
Caption: Tribute to Muhammad Ali
Description: For ESPN The Magazine
Title: msmithMizzouarguingwell
Caption: How To Argue Well
Description: For Mizzou Magazine
Title: msmithNEWYORKERlifeisajoke
Caption: My Life Is A Joke
Description: For the New Yorker
Title: msmithFolioCandles2
Caption: A Shilling For Candles
Description: Interior art for the Folio Society edition of A Shilling For Candles
Title: msmithInstInvtopjob
Caption: How To Get The Top Jobs
Description: Cover art for Institutional Investor
Title: msmithEnttwitter
Caption: Twitter Abuse
Description: How to deal with an ex-employee's disparaging tweets, for Entrepreneur Magazine
Title: msmithGWBoros
Caption: Portrait of Julius Boros
Description: For Golf World Magazine
Title: msmithNatureALS
Caption: Lou Gehrig's disease
Description: For Nature Journal
Title: msmithRemodelling2
Caption: Improving Cashflow
Description: For Remodelling Magazine

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Mark's work has featured in magazines, newspapers, books and advertising campaigns around the world for clients including The New Yorker, ESPN The Magazine, Penguin Books, The Folio Society, The Financial Times, The Guardian, Buzzfeed, The New York Times and many more. His particular take on the world has won him recognition and awards from the NY Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, Luerzers Archive, 3X3 Magazine, Communication Arts, LA Society of Illustrators and the V&A Illustration Awards, stand out's include a silver medal from the NY Society, the Patrick Nagel Award for Excellence from the LA Society and the 'Best in Show' award from 3X3 Magazine.

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Leo Monahan

About the Work:

Inspired by Bauhaus design and color principles, as well as Japanese and Chinese paper arts, Leo Monahan creates modern masterworks of cut and folded paper.

Leo Monahan photograph

By cutting, folding, and texturizing paper of various weights, and by superimposing the pieces in dimensional collage, Leo gives the objects in his works a palpability they would not possess depicted on a flat canvas. In an old country kitchen, large spoons lean out from their utensil holder, as if hankering for a cook’s hand. A decaying rowboat poses in fugitive relief against the water that threatens to engulf it. Leo’s use of relief is such that some of his most arresting art is white on white.

Most of Monahan’s works, including the kitchens, are prodigies of color. An object’s relief is often heightened by intense tone. Using hot colors liberally in harmony with a few cooler ones, Leo often achieves some of the effects of an abstract. For example, his bigger- and more-colorful-than-life fishing flies seem intended to lure your inner eye.

In recent years, Leo has also enjoyed exploring the sensuous and emotional power of rusts and earth tones, often in images from his boyhood in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Leo’s work has appeared in galleries in California and across the Southwest. His work is now in the Grovewood Gallery in Asheville, NC. His pieces are in numerous private collections and the Smithsonian Institution. The Art Academy of Los Angeles held a 40-year retrospective of his compositions. Leo holds a Life Achievement Award from the Los Angeles Society of Illustrators.

Title: monahan, leo bird
Title: monahan, leo butterfly
Title: monahan, leo hands
Title: monahan, leo horn

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Marcia Adams Ho

I love to get to know the story, the characters and the environment that surrounds them.

Title: Father,Daughter,Fish_small file for SILA
Caption: A father comforts his daughter over the loss of her pet fish, from Life Outside the Mason Jar, by Ann Brasco.
Description: Traditional Acrylic Painting, girl wonders why her pet fish is dead
Title: Christmas Night in S Cal_small file
Caption: Only the cat knows what happened to all the Christmas decorations that Santa Ana windy Christmas Eve, self promo
Description: Traditional Acrylic Painting
Title: Girl with Fireflies
Caption: Two fireflies contemplate how to reach beyond the hard steel ceiling from Life Outside the Mason Jar, by Ann Brasco.
Description: Traditional Acrylic Painting
Title: Illustration 5_Woven Rings_ECWM_72_SILA
Caption: Day 5 Five Woven Rings from The Tree Farmer's Twelve Days of Christmas author Aaron Burakoff
Description: Christmas Barn decorating with Christmas wreaths, Hand drawn in Adobe Photoshop
Title: Illustration 6_Hounds Leaving Park_Small file
Caption: Two Basset Hounds on their one night away from the comforts of home, from Life Outside the Mason Jar, by Ann Brasco.
Description: Traditional Acrylic Painting
Title: TreeFarmersTwelveDaysofChristmas_Taggers_ECWM_72_SILA
Caption: Day 11 Eleven Taggers from The Tree Farmer's Twelve Days of Christmas author Aaron Burakoff
Description: Christmas Barn and Christmas trees getting tagged for harvest, Hand drawn in Adobe Photoshop
Title: Illustration 5_Foxes_small file
Caption: Two foxes wish they could fly with the clouds, from Life Outside the Mason Jar, by Ann Brasco.
Description: Traditional Acrylic Painting
Title: Cover Three Shells for Nikki
Caption: Nikki is uneasy about entering her Grandmother's home whom she has never met, from Three Shells for Nikki written by Philippa Norman
Description: Hand drawn in Adobe Photoshop
Title: Jingle Bell Run_FINAL_front cover_SILA
Caption: Christmas Jingle Bell Run book cover
Description: Christmas garland with colorful running shoes and jingle bells, Hand drawn in Adobe Photoshop
Title: Chapter 4_Alley Cat_small file
Caption: Alley Cat secretly read the classics with her friends. from Alley Cat written by Daisey Dowell MD
Description: Hand drawn digital illustration
Title: Cookie Dough Dreams_72 by Marcia Adams Ho_2_RGB
Caption: Cookie Dough Dreams
Description: Wall Mural design for Cookie Dough Dreams, Burbank, CA

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Angela Hsieh

Title: The Cavioliths
Description: The Caviolith mountain range is a curious and oft-overlooked geozoological phenomenon. Despite its unique formations, research potential, and undeniable charm, it is often bypassed in favor of the charismatic Anuran Falls to the south. In recent years, scholars have begun to investigate the Cavioliths in depth, but much of it still remains a mystery; navigation is tricky, and maps must be updated each time one of its formations awakens to wander to a new location. Cavioliths are docile by nature and tolerate human presence. If you plan to visit during feeding season, make sure to bring earplugs to protect your hearing, as pre-feeding wheeking can reach thunderous levels.
Title: NPR: International Adoption
Description: For a piece on NPR about an adoptee's journey to find her biological family.
Title: NPR: Book Concierge
Title: NPR: Best Albums of 2018
Title: NPR: Green Spaces
Description: For a episode of NPR's Hidden Brain on the restorative power of natural spaces.
Title: NPR: The Cassandra Curse
Description: For an episode of NPR's Hidden Brain on the psychology of warnings.
Title: NPR: Horror Readers Poll
Description: Created for NPR's callout for submissions to their yearly summer reader poll.
Title: Doujiang Youtiao
Description: When it comes to doujiang youtiao, the food itself—a steaming bowl of fresh soy milk and a crispy-on-the-outside-fluffy-on-the-inside stick of fried dough—is of course the main attraction, but the ambience is just as much a part of the experience. To wit: no doujiang youtiao breakfast is truly complete without you almost wiping out as you slide your way back to your table over tiles slicked with decades of fryer oil while a group of a-ma argue politics in a corner.

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