Great Master Artists and Illustrators of our Time
Master Artist Interviews with Cindy Wider
The Great Master Artists project gathers together many artists whom I consider to be some of the greatest living masters of our time. These artists have been invited from many different fields of creative endeavour, not only traditional visual art, but also professional illustrators, cartoonists, digital artists and more.
I hope you enjoy discovering more about these great master artists, their sometimes very personal stories and their sources of inspiration. In turn I also hope that you too become inspired to appreciate their art either as an aspiring artist or collector.
Cindy WiderCo-founder DrawPj.com
Author of the Complete Drawing Certificate Course
Cecile Baird
Cecile Baird is a master of the coloured pencil medium. She creates amazing still life set ups using back-lighting to capture the translucent nature of objects.
[Read Cecile’s Interview…]
Jesse Lane
There’s no denying that Jesse is a master of the coloured pencil medium, but it’s also his ability to truly capture these intimate moments of the human condition that is most riveting about his work.
[Read Jesse’s Interview…]
Tanja Gant
Tanja Gant is a graphite and coloured pencil artist. A Bosnian native, she coloured her way through the unrest of her childhood to live her present day dream creating masterpieces.
[Read Tanja’s Interview…]
Tracy Frien
Tracy Frien is a colored pencil artist renown for using a technique he developed himself called Drawing by Subtracting.
[Read Tracy’s Interview…]
Sharon Kow
Sharon Kow is a dedicated colored pencil artist with the desire to bring the colored pencil medium to the mainstream art world.
[Read Sharon’s Interview…]
Jandamarra Cadd
Jandamarra is an Australian artist of aboriginal descent bridging contemporary portraiture style and traditional aboriginal painting techniques.
[Read Jandamarra’s Interview…]
Kelvin Okafor
Kelvin Okafor is a rising star in the art world winning awards and appearing on the BBC News for his incredible graphite pencil artworks.
[Read Kelvin’s Interview…]
Armin Mersmann
Armin Mersmann celebrates 50 years as an artist in this Golden Celebration interview series.
[Read Armin’s Interview…]
Emanuele Dascanio
Emanuele Dascanio is a great Italian artist creating incredibly realistic graphite pencil and charcoal portraits.
[Read Emanuele’s Interview…]
JD Hillberry
JD is an master artist with a high standard of drawing ability demonstrated particularly in his Tromp l’eol (fool the eye) drawings that he is best known for.
[Read JD Hillberry’s Interview…]
Phil Wilson
Phil Wilson has been a Disney artist for 18 years and has illustrated 75 books and creates realistic dinosaur artwork.
[Read Phil’s Interview…]
Jason Buhagiar
Jason Buhagiar is the outstanding and highly skilled illustrator for the Salty Splashes™ characters and a huge list of other children’s picture books.
[Read Jason’s Interview…]
Iza Trapani
Iza Trapani is an inspirational multi award-winning children’s book author and illustrator.
[Read Iza’s Interview…]
