Over the years, James Coleman’s name has become synonymous with sweeping skies, tropical rainforests, rich deep woods and silent deserts. Coleman got his start with Walt Disney Productions in the mailroom, in the summer of 1969 through his mother, who was a longtime secretary for Disney. Coleman’s big break came when he entered one of his paintings in the studio art show. Several of the Disney artists viewed James Coleman’s artwork in the show, and immediately saw his potential and his unt...
Lindsay Dawson was born in Palo Alto, California and studied painting at Oregon State University. After graduating he attended the famed Art Center in Pasadena, CA where he studied under John Asaro and Dan McCaw. He later began his career painting for major film studios in California. Over the years, he became disenchanted with commercial art and decided he wanted to create something more lasting. He entered his creative piece in the California Arts League annual show and won first prize. After ...
Tom Everhart is the only artist with full creative rights to the "Peanuts" characters created by Charles M. Schulz (November 26, 1922 –February 12, 2000). In 1980 Tom graduated from the School of Art and Architecture at Yale University. He got a freelance job drawing renderings of Charles Schulz's characters. Everhart began working with "Peanuts" imagery exclusively. His first show was at the famous Louvre Museum in January 1990. In 1991, Charles Schulz and United Media, drafted a legal agreem...
Born and raised in California, Noah is known for his fine art portraits and custom artwork across the country. Beginning his career very humbly, Noah set up his easel in coffee shops in the Coast Mesa area painting celebrity portraits for pedestrian patrons. His work soon caught the eye of the subjects themselves, such as Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, ZZ Top, and the Black Crowes, who began collecting his work. It wasn’t long before corporate clients took notice and commissioned his w...
The works of accomplished artist, Nicole Suzanne Stahl, represent a deep appreciation for life, and a passionate curiosity about the intricacies of living creation. Through her work, Nicole strives to inspire and enlighten herself and others, in awe of the unsurpassed handiwork of the highly detailed Designer and Creator of all things. Nicole's artistic career began in childhood. As a girl, she loved to spend time experimenting with watercolor painting as well as pencil and chalk drawings. In...
When it comes to rock and roll photography, Rob Shanahan is one of the industry leaders. Rob’s photos have appeared in music industry advertising campaigns, on CD/DVD covers, and in countless music photography publications worldwide. Rob got his first drum kit when he was 10 years old and his first camera when he was 13, and has been doing both professionally since 1988. He has been performing with the "Hollywood Stones" since 1992. His sensitivities as a musician have made him the first ca...
Larissa Holt's style is reminiscent of the late world-renowned artist Eyvind Earle (1916-2000), with whom she worked to create a collection of iconic serigraphs. After leaving Eyvind's studios in 1989, Holt was involved in producing pieces for Henry Miller's Centennial Collection, Chris Lewis Fine Art, Neal Doty, and others. She also traveled and began to focus more on her own art, developing the bold contrast style she is known for today. Through the years, Holt has proven her skills as a...
Born in Canton, China in 1952, Alexander Chen is an internationally-renowned artist with extraordinary vision and talent. Chen began drawing when he was a child and even during four years between the ages of sixteen and twenty when he worked as a farmer in the Chinese countryside, he kept drawing and painting the world around him. Soon, though, he turned to road theater, where he painted scenery and stage backgrounds. Six years later, at the age twenty-six, Chen found himself back in Canton, whe...
Greg Hildebrandt and his twin brother Tim were born on January 23, 1939, in Detroit, Michigan. They worked collaboratively as fantasy and science fiction artists; in the illustration world they became better known as "The Brothers Hildebrandt." The brothers began their professional careers in 1959, during which they produced illustrations for comic books, movie posters, children's books, posters, novels, calendars, advertisements, and trading cards. Some of their most notable works, and what won...
Sergey Smirnov was born in 1953, in the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia. In 1984 Sergey graduated valedictorian from Moscow City Art College. In 1988, he became a member of the International Federation of Artists and the National Artists’ Union of Russia. By 1991 Smirnov became the Chief Editor for the Advertising and Image Creation Corporation of the Russian government’s International Trade Corporation. Smirnov won national and international awards for many of his logos and graphics. These su...
