Kira's Favorite Artists

Digital Art

• Janet Parke - fractal art
• Complexification - computer-generated art by programmer Jared Tarbell
• Greg Martin does some amazing space art.
• So does Gary Tonge
• Layne Karkruff creates 3d-style desktops and interfaces
• June Kaminski has some neat page designs.
• Digital Blasphemy - tons of cool 3-d art/desktop backgrounds by Ryan Bliss.

Photography

• Darrell Gulin - gorgeous photos of landscape, wildlife, and horses.
• Missouri Skies Gallery - storms and space pix by Dan Bush
• Leping Zha - nature photography
• Arnaud Frich - panoramic photography of France (and other places)
• Alex Bernasconi - Hawaii; African wildlife
• The Light & the Land - landscape photography by Bruce Percy
• SnowCrystals.com - the art of snowflakes. Fantastic photos of snowflakes. The art of the miniscule...
• The Final Turn Gallery showcases horse racing photos by many different photographers.
• Graham Jeffery has a gallery of various photos. My favorites are the flowers and landscape pictures.
• Fred's Air Show Journal - great pix from air shows
• Yann Arthus-Bertrand's horse photos
• Francis Toussaint's incredible photographs of European landscapes, flowers, and critters.
• Kurt Ross - photography of American landscapes
• Quang-Tuan Luong - Terra Galleria - cities and landscapes around the world
• nowords.org - beautiful pictures of the Earth from space.

Paintings, Sculpture

• Sarah Rose sculpts horses. One of my favorite sculptors.
• Gordon K. Uyehara creates some beautiful and rather organic silver jewelry out of silver clay (PMC).
• Greg Skol (landscape painter)
• Lynn Fraley sculpts horses (chinas and resin) in a very lean, muscular style.
• Susan Leyland is best known for her legless clay horses
• Josh Simpson is a glass artist; I have a small collection of his "Possibly Inhabited Planets". Quite cool.
• Bruce Ricker paints landscapes in a stylized realism form
• Jennifer Young does lovely oil paintings in the style of Monet

Writers

• Steve Pavlina's writing has done more to inspire and motivate me than all the self-help books I've ever read.
• Chris Guillebeau and the Art of Non-Conformity: Unconventional Strategies for Life, Work, and Travel.
• Seth Godin (nonfiction: marketing and all around great ideas books)
• Steven Brust, author of many cool books including the Dragaera series. Oh, and his blog, which was probably linked from his website at some point... (careful with the chaos, there, Steven...)
• Steven R. Boyett, author of Ariel, a really cool book about a smartassed unicorn...