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Aaron Brewer - City Rating: 3 Stars / U.S. Rating: 2 1/2 Stars
Affiliation: Maxines
Dossier: Available soon.
Style: Photographer
Medium: Film
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Alex Oberste - City Rating: 3 Stars / U.S. Rating: 2 1/2 Stars
Affiliation: The Art Church
Dossier: He is the only real Artist in The Art Church. His Art deserves better than that Gallery of Hacks.
Style: Sketch Artist
Medium: Charcoal, Colored Pencils, Graphite, Mixed Media
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Alison Parsons - City Rating: 2 Stars / U.S. Rating: 1 Star
Affiliation: Owner of The Alison Parsons Art Gallery
Dossier: Her Art looks like something out of a beginners paint by numbers kit.
Style: Painter
Medium: Acrylic, Oil, Water Colors
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Ashley Wilkerson - City Rating: 3 1/2 Stars / U.S. Rating: 3 Stars
Affiliation: The Living Canvas
Dossier: She is the best female Tattoo Artist in Hot Springs. If you come to Hot Springs to get a Tattoo then go to Red Beard's and ask for Ashley.
Style: Sketch Artist, Tattoo Artist
Medium: Ink, Graphite
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Beau Myers - City Rating: 4 Stars / U.S. Rating: 3 1/2 Stars
Affiliation: Available soon.
Dossier: Available soon.
Style: Painter, Sketch Artist
Medium: Acrylic, Charcoal, Conte Crayons, Graphite, Oil, Watercolors
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Benini - City Rating: 3 1/2 Stars / U.S. Rating: 3 Stars
Affiliation: Available soon.
Dossier: World Famous Italian Artist.
Style: Painter
Medium: Oil
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Bethannie Newsom Steelman - City Rating: 3 Stars / U.S. Rating: 2 1/2 Stars
Affiliation:ACAC, Star Gallery
Dossier: She is a really good Artist. It's too bad that she is a Con Artist and The Poster Child for The Star Gallery Scam.
Style: Painter, Sketch Artist
Medium: Acrylic, Charcoal, Conte Crayons, Graphite, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil, Watercolors
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Bre Harris - City Rating: 4 Stars / U.S. Rating: 3 1/2 Stars
Affiliation: Head of The Arkansas Sculptors Guild
Dossier: Available soon.
Style: Sculptor
Medium: Metal
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Bryan Sink - City Rating: 1 Star / U.S. Rating: 0 Stars
Affiliation: Prodigious Art LTD
Dossier: Brian Sink is a talentless hack and is living proof that anyone can be an abstract Artist.
Style: Painter
Medium: Acrylic, Oil, Watercolor
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Chuck Dodson - City Rating: 4 Stars / U.S. Rating: 3 1/2 Stars
Affiliation: The Gallery 404-B
Dossier: If I was ever stupid enough to get married I'd have Chuck Dodson take the pictures of my wedding.
Style: Photographer
Medium: Film
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Curt Mullins - City Rating: 5 Stars / U.S. Rating: 5 Stars
Affiliation: The Tin Grizzly
Dossier: World Class Kentuckian Artist
Style: Painter, Sketch Artist
Medium: Charcoal, Conte Crayons, Oil, Prisma Color
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Gary Simmons - City Rating: 4 Stars / U.S. Rating: 3 1/2 Stars
Affiliation: The Xu International Gallery
Dossier: Author of The Technical Pen and Professor at Henderson University.
Style: Illustrator, Painter, Sketch Artist
Medium: Acrylic, Charcoal, Colored Pencils, Conte Crayons, Graphite, Ink, Oil, Water Colors
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Jay Wilburn - City Rating: 5 Stars / U.S. Rating: 5 Stars
Affiliation: The Tin Grizzly
Dossier: World Class Kentuckian Artist
Style: Painter, Sketch Artist
Medium: Charcoal, Conte Crayons, Graphite, Oil
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Jeanfo - City Rating: 3 Stars / U.S. Rating: 2 1/2 Stars
Affiliation: Available soon.
Dossier: World Famous French Artist.
Style: Welding
Medium: Metal
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Jesse Evans - City Rating: 0 Stars / U.S. Rating: 0 Stars
Affiliation: Available soon.
Dossier: He's a wannabe Artist/Wannabe Musician and he's terrible at both. If he didn't have his own Gallery for awhile he wouldn't have been seen in this town. Here's a bit of advice Jesse just stick with one thing until you're good at it and then maybe you will be good at something before you die.
Style: Painter, Sketch Artist
Medium: Acrylic, Graphite
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Marc Menefee - City Rating: 1 Star / U.S. Rating: 0 Stars
Affiliation: Owner of The Art Church
Dossier: He makes abstract paintings on Car Parts. The only reason why I gave him 1 Star is because in Hot Springs it get's even worse than that. I'm not just talking about people who claim to be Artist. I'm talking about people who are actually on display in Galleries here.
Style: Painter, Welder
Medium: Acrylic, Metal
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Maxwell Blade - City Rating: 0 Star / U.S. Rating: 0 Stars
Dossier: He is a Great Magician, but I have seen small children make better Art than this man.
Style: Painter
Medium: Acrylic, Oil
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Michael Schaeffer - City Rating: 0 Stars / U.S. Rating: 0 Stars
Affiliation: The Art Church, Star Gallery
Dossier: Mike Schaeffer is the living embodiment of what I hate about Co-Operative Galleries. I get about as much feeling looking at his Art as I do staring at a Brick Wall. He is a Zero as an Artist and if he didn't pay $50 to be seen in The Art Church and $50 to Star Gallery each month to be seen nobody would know who he is. I have know him since we had our Art in The Hot Springs Art Gallery over 14 years ago and dare I say it his Art is worse now than it was then. I don't know if he is huffing Gas or what but go by Star Gallery, look at his "art" then let me know what you think.
Style: Painter, Sketch Artist
Medium: Mixed Media
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Patricia Collins - City Rating: 3 1/2 Stars / U.S. Rating: 3 Stars
Affiliation: Executive Director of The Fine Arts Center
Dossier: To say that this woman's Art is unique is an understatement. I have never seen anything like it. Creativity is the ability to create something new that has value. Patricia Collins is Creative in the extreme.
Style: ?
Medium: Mixed Media
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Paul Cooper - City Rating: 0 Stars / U.S. Rating: 0 Stars
Affiliation: Star Gallery, The Art Church
Dossier: Paul Cooper is living proof that any hack off of the street can have their "art" in Star Gallery or The Art Church provided that they are willing to pay a $50 a month wall fee for either Gallery.
Style: Illustrator, Sketch Artist
Medium: Graphite, India Ink
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Randall M. Good - City Rating: 4 Stars / U.S. Rating: 4 stars
Affiliation: Blue Moon Gallery
Dossier: I'm still not convinced that this guy didn't just step out of a time Machine from The Italian Renaissance, beyond that all I can say is bravo to the Scavo's for discovering this Gem.
Style: Painter, Sketch Artist
Medium: Charcoal, Colored Pencils, Conte Crayons, Graphite, Oil
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Richard Stephens - City Rating: 3 Stars / U.S. Rating: 2 1/2 Stars
Affiliation: The Xu International Gallery
Dossier: Watercolor Magic's 2005 artist to watch for.
Style: Cartoonist, Sketch Artist, Painter
Medium: Acrylic, Charcoal, Colored Pencils, Conte Crayons, Graphite, Oil, Water Colors
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Sofya Mikeworth - City Rating: 3 1/2 Stars / U.S. Rating: 3 Stars
Affiliation: The Tin Grizzly
Dossier: Sofya Mikeworth is a Master Painter from Russia that has a very unusual style considering her background. She is a practitioner of The Ancient Cherokee Feather Painting Technique.
Style: Feather Painter
Medium: Acrylic on Turkey Feathers
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Terri Menefee - City Rating: 1 Star / U.S. Rating: 0 Stars
Affiliation: The Art Church
Dossier: She is a very nice lady but I'm not judging how nice she is. I've seen people who don't even claim to be Artist do better than this. This woman belongs in a convenience store not an Art Gallery.
Style: Painter, Sketch Artist
Medium: Acrylic, Magic Marker, Oil
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Thad Flenniken - City Rating: 1 Star / U.S. Rating: 0 Stars
Affiliation: Blue Moon
Dossier: A Failed Artist that gives aspiring Artist Associates Degrees in worthlessness at the local Junior College. He is the embodiment of the phrase "Those who can do. Those who can't teach.".
Style: Painter, Sketch Artist
Medium: Acrylic, Charcoal, Conte Crayons, Graphite, Oil,Water Colors
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Thomas Kinkade - City Rating: 5 Stars / U.S. Rating: 5 Stars
Affiliation: American Art Gallery
Dossier: It broke my heart when I found out that Thomas Kinkade is a Con Artist. I still love his Art though.
Style: Painter
Medium: Acrylic, Oil, Watercolors
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Thomas Payne - City Rating: 4 Stars / 3 1/2 Stars
Affiliation: Available soon.
Dossier: The Man is a Local Legend that has helped a lot of fledgling Artist. Myself included.
Style: Painter, Sculptor, Sketch Artist
Medium: Acrylic, Charcoal, Clay, Colored Pencils, Conte Crayons, Graphite, Ink, India Ink, Marble, Oil, Watercolors, Wood
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Tim Payne - City Rating: 3 1/2 Stars / U.S. Rating: 3 Stars
Affiliation: Available soon.
Dossier: He is the son of Painter Thomas Payne. If you asked Tim he would tell you that he's just a hobbiest, but his photographs say otherwise. Artistic Talent definitely runs in the Payne Bloodline. He is only 35 which means that he is a child in this Industry, by the time he is 50 he will be The Ansel Adams of The 21st Century.
Style: Photographer
Medium: Film
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Trey Steelman - City Rating: 3 1/2 Stars / U.S. Rating: 3 Stars
Affiliation: The Living Canvas
Dossier: This Man is a Machine. If I was ever stupid enough to get a Tattoo then this is the guy that I would trust to do it for me.
Style: Sketch Artist, Tattoo Artist
Medium: Graphite, Ink
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Xu Long Hua - City Rating: 4 Stars / U.S. Rating 4 Stars
Affiliation: Owner of The Xu International Art Gallery
Dossier: World Famous Chinese Artist that made the Sculpture of the Goddess of Nature in Down Town Hot Springs. He is also the owner of The Xu International Art Gallery.
Style: Painter, Sculptor, Sketch Artist
Medium: Acrylic, Charcoal, Conte Crayons, Clay, Marble, Oil, Water Colors
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Saturday, May 14, 2011
2011 Artists Reviews in Hot Springs, Arkansas
This is just a draft of my Artist Review Blog. I will continuously update this blog with new Artist and information about them.Aaron Brewer - City Rating: 3 Stars / U.S. Rating: 2 1/2 Stars
Affiliation: Maxines
Dossier: Available soon.
Style: Photographer
Medium: Film
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Alex Oberste - City Rating: 3 Stars / U.S. Rating: 2 1/2 Stars
Affiliation: The Art Church
Dossier: He is the only real Artist in The Art Church. His Art deserves better than that Gallery of Hacks.
Style: Sketch Artist
Medium: Charcoal, Colored Pencils, Graphite, Mixed Media
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Alison Parsons - City Rating: 2 Stars / U.S. Rating: 1 Star
Affiliation: Owner of The Alison Parsons Art Gallery
Dossier: Her Art looks like something out of a beginners paint by numbers kit.
Style: Painter
Medium: Acrylic, Oil, Water Colors
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Ashley Wilkerson - City Rating: 3 1/2 Stars / U.S. Rating: 3 Stars
Affiliation: The Living Canvas
Dossier: She is the best female Tattoo Artist in Hot Springs. If you come to Hot Springs to get a Tattoo then go to Red Beard's and ask for Ashley.
Style: Sketch Artist, Tattoo Artist
Medium: Ink, Graphite
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Beau Myers - City Rating: 4 Stars / U.S. Rating: 3 1/2 Stars
Affiliation: Available soon.
Dossier: Available soon.
Style: Painter, Sketch Artist
Medium: Acrylic, Charcoal, Conte Crayons, Graphite, Oil, Watercolors
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Benini - City Rating: 3 1/2 Stars / U.S. Rating: 3 Stars
Affiliation: Available soon.
Dossier: World Famous Italian Artist.
Style: Painter
Medium: Oil
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Bethannie Newsom Steelman - City Rating: 3 Stars / U.S. Rating: 2 1/2 Stars
Affiliation:ACAC, Star Gallery
Dossier: She is a really good Artist. It's too bad that she is a Con Artist and The Poster Child for The Star Gallery Scam.
Style: Painter, Sketch Artist
Medium: Acrylic, Charcoal, Conte Crayons, Graphite, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil, Watercolors
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Bre Harris - City Rating: 4 Stars / U.S. Rating: 3 1/2 Stars
Affiliation: Head of The Arkansas Sculptors Guild
Dossier: Available soon.
Style: Sculptor
Medium: Metal
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Bryan Sink - City Rating: 1 Star / U.S. Rating: 0 Stars
Affiliation: Prodigious Art LTD
Dossier: Brian Sink is a talentless hack and is living proof that anyone can be an abstract Artist.
Style: Painter
Medium: Acrylic, Oil, Watercolor
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Chuck Dodson - City Rating: 4 Stars / U.S. Rating: 3 1/2 Stars
Affiliation: The Gallery 404-B
Dossier: If I was ever stupid enough to get married I'd have Chuck Dodson take the pictures of my wedding.
Style: Photographer
Medium: Film
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Curt Mullins - City Rating: 5 Stars / U.S. Rating: 5 Stars
Affiliation: The Tin Grizzly
Dossier: World Class Kentuckian Artist
Style: Painter, Sketch Artist
Medium: Charcoal, Conte Crayons, Oil, Prisma Color
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Gary Simmons - City Rating: 4 Stars / U.S. Rating: 3 1/2 Stars
Affiliation: The Xu International Gallery
Dossier: Author of The Technical Pen and Professor at Henderson University.
Style: Illustrator, Painter, Sketch Artist
Medium: Acrylic, Charcoal, Colored Pencils, Conte Crayons, Graphite, Ink, Oil, Water Colors
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Jay Wilburn - City Rating: 5 Stars / U.S. Rating: 5 Stars
Affiliation: The Tin Grizzly
Dossier: World Class Kentuckian Artist
Style: Painter, Sketch Artist
Medium: Charcoal, Conte Crayons, Graphite, Oil
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Jeanfo - City Rating: 3 Stars / U.S. Rating: 2 1/2 Stars
Affiliation: Available soon.
Dossier: World Famous French Artist.
Style: Welding
Medium: Metal
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Jesse Evans - City Rating: 0 Stars / U.S. Rating: 0 Stars
Affiliation: Available soon.
Dossier: He's a wannabe Artist/Wannabe Musician and he's terrible at both. If he didn't have his own Gallery for awhile he wouldn't have been seen in this town. Here's a bit of advice Jesse just stick with one thing until you're good at it and then maybe you will be good at something before you die.
Style: Painter, Sketch Artist
Medium: Acrylic, Graphite
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Marc Menefee - City Rating: 1 Star / U.S. Rating: 0 Stars
Affiliation: Owner of The Art Church
Dossier: He makes abstract paintings on Car Parts. The only reason why I gave him 1 Star is because in Hot Springs it get's even worse than that. I'm not just talking about people who claim to be Artist. I'm talking about people who are actually on display in Galleries here.
Style: Painter, Welder
Medium: Acrylic, Metal
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Maxwell Blade - City Rating: 0 Star / U.S. Rating: 0 Stars
Dossier: He is a Great Magician, but I have seen small children make better Art than this man.
Style: Painter
Medium: Acrylic, Oil
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Michael Schaeffer - City Rating: 0 Stars / U.S. Rating: 0 Stars
Affiliation: The Art Church, Star Gallery
Dossier: Mike Schaeffer is the living embodiment of what I hate about Co-Operative Galleries. I get about as much feeling looking at his Art as I do staring at a Brick Wall. He is a Zero as an Artist and if he didn't pay $50 to be seen in The Art Church and $50 to Star Gallery each month to be seen nobody would know who he is. I have know him since we had our Art in The Hot Springs Art Gallery over 14 years ago and dare I say it his Art is worse now than it was then. I don't know if he is huffing Gas or what but go by Star Gallery, look at his "art" then let me know what you think.
Style: Painter, Sketch Artist
Medium: Mixed Media
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Patricia Collins - City Rating: 3 1/2 Stars / U.S. Rating: 3 Stars
Affiliation: Executive Director of The Fine Arts Center
Dossier: To say that this woman's Art is unique is an understatement. I have never seen anything like it. Creativity is the ability to create something new that has value. Patricia Collins is Creative in the extreme.
Style: ?
Medium: Mixed Media
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Paul Cooper - City Rating: 0 Stars / U.S. Rating: 0 Stars
Affiliation: Star Gallery, The Art Church
Dossier: Paul Cooper is living proof that any hack off of the street can have their "art" in Star Gallery or The Art Church provided that they are willing to pay a $50 a month wall fee for either Gallery.
Style: Illustrator, Sketch Artist
Medium: Graphite, India Ink
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Randall M. Good - City Rating: 4 Stars / U.S. Rating: 4 stars
Affiliation: Blue Moon Gallery
Dossier: I'm still not convinced that this guy didn't just step out of a time Machine from The Italian Renaissance, beyond that all I can say is bravo to the Scavo's for discovering this Gem.
Style: Painter, Sketch Artist
Medium: Charcoal, Colored Pencils, Conte Crayons, Graphite, Oil
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Richard Stephens - City Rating: 3 Stars / U.S. Rating: 2 1/2 Stars
Affiliation: The Xu International Gallery
Dossier: Watercolor Magic's 2005 artist to watch for.
Style: Cartoonist, Sketch Artist, Painter
Medium: Acrylic, Charcoal, Colored Pencils, Conte Crayons, Graphite, Oil, Water Colors
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Sofya Mikeworth - City Rating: 3 1/2 Stars / U.S. Rating: 3 Stars
Affiliation: The Tin Grizzly
Dossier: Sofya Mikeworth is a Master Painter from Russia that has a very unusual style considering her background. She is a practitioner of The Ancient Cherokee Feather Painting Technique.
Style: Feather Painter
Medium: Acrylic on Turkey Feathers
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Terri Menefee - City Rating: 1 Star / U.S. Rating: 0 Stars
Affiliation: The Art Church
Dossier: She is a very nice lady but I'm not judging how nice she is. I've seen people who don't even claim to be Artist do better than this. This woman belongs in a convenience store not an Art Gallery.
Style: Painter, Sketch Artist
Medium: Acrylic, Magic Marker, Oil
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Thad Flenniken - City Rating: 1 Star / U.S. Rating: 0 Stars
Affiliation: Blue Moon
Dossier: A Failed Artist that gives aspiring Artist Associates Degrees in worthlessness at the local Junior College. He is the embodiment of the phrase "Those who can do. Those who can't teach.".
Style: Painter, Sketch Artist
Medium: Acrylic, Charcoal, Conte Crayons, Graphite, Oil,Water Colors
Thomas Kinkade - City Rating: 5 Stars / U.S. Rating: 5 Stars
Affiliation: American Art Gallery
Dossier: It broke my heart when I found out that Thomas Kinkade is a Con Artist. I still love his Art though.
Style: Painter
Medium: Acrylic, Oil, Watercolors
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Thomas Payne - City Rating: 4 Stars / 3 1/2 Stars
Affiliation: Available soon.
Dossier: The Man is a Local Legend that has helped a lot of fledgling Artist. Myself included.
Style: Painter, Sculptor, Sketch Artist
Medium: Acrylic, Charcoal, Clay, Colored Pencils, Conte Crayons, Graphite, Ink, India Ink, Marble, Oil, Watercolors, Wood
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Tim Payne - City Rating: 3 1/2 Stars / U.S. Rating: 3 Stars
Affiliation: Available soon.
Dossier: He is the son of Painter Thomas Payne. If you asked Tim he would tell you that he's just a hobbiest, but his photographs say otherwise. Artistic Talent definitely runs in the Payne Bloodline. He is only 35 which means that he is a child in this Industry, by the time he is 50 he will be The Ansel Adams of The 21st Century.
Style: Photographer
Medium: Film
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Trey Steelman - City Rating: 3 1/2 Stars / U.S. Rating: 3 Stars
Affiliation: The Living Canvas
Dossier: This Man is a Machine. If I was ever stupid enough to get a Tattoo then this is the guy that I would trust to do it for me.
Style: Sketch Artist, Tattoo Artist
Medium: Graphite, Ink
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Xu Long Hua - City Rating: 4 Stars / U.S. Rating 4 Stars
Affiliation: Owner of The Xu International Art Gallery
Dossier: World Famous Chinese Artist that made the Sculpture of the Goddess of Nature in Down Town Hot Springs. He is also the owner of The Xu International Art Gallery.
Style: Painter, Sculptor, Sketch Artist
Medium: Acrylic, Charcoal, Conte Crayons, Clay, Marble, Oil, Water Colors
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