Sandy Haight has a selection of Sumi ink and brush paintings in a group exhibition this month at the Madison Art Collective, 2703 E Madison Street in Seattle. (more)

Michal Dziekan painted this piece as a fundraiser for his friend Dorota who is battling multiple sclerosis. Michal has created a limited edition of 100 signed and numbered prints available here.  Proceeds will go towards the extremely expensive treatment that Dorota needs. (more)

Elisabeth Alba’s mesmerizing painting depicts Rán, Norse goddess of both the sea and death by drowning. Die with lots of gold and Rán will provide you with a pretty decent afterlife… once she’s lured you over and sinks your ship with the help of her daughters, the Waves, that is. (more)

David Grove has produced An Illustrated Life, an autobiography tracing his path as an artist, from a sketchbook journal in Paris in the mid-sixties through his career as one of the most emotionally expressive illustrators of our time. (more)

Cheryl Chalmers’ work is highlighted twice in this week's Ithaca Times. One piece features her painting "Lake Effect," while elsewhere in the paper, an article on "Buying Art For Someone Else" praises her "Far Above Cayuga's Waters" as being "brilliant, hallucinatory… Ithaca with a swirling Van Gogh starry night and snow-covered trees glowing with luminescent inner light." (more)

Cheryl Chalmers’ "Sunday Afternoon in the Park" watercolor is featured on the contents page of the current Life in the Finger Lakes Magazine. (more)

Mark Ulriksen’s portrait of Neil Young for the 1994 CD "Sleeps With Angels" is included in “Rolling Stone and the Art of the Record Review,” an exhibition of over 80 original illustrations commissioned for the Record Review column of Rolling Stone magazine, opening tonight at the Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators in New York City. (more)

Anthony Freda’s painting for finance blog The Big Picture perfectly illustrates an article on the utter turmoil gripping England recently. (more) 

Tyler Jacobson was commissioned by a client in Texas to create historically accurate illustrations of Davy Crockett as the statesman he really was, not as the tall-tale folk hero with the crazy fur hat. In addition to being a statesman, Crockett was also a frontiersman and a renowned soldier who died at the Battle of the Alamo.  (more)

Sterling Hundley had just two days to create this painting of country music star Blake Shelton for the current issue of Rolling Stone. Here, Sterling also shares his process with us. (more)