Robert Tracy is an artist I have written about previously. Tracy had not updated his website for some time, but recently added a number of older works he has made available for purchase.

You can find even more of his work on his deviantART gallery, which contains an archive of pieces going back to 1965.

The deviantART galleries are more extensive (if you don’t mind the occasional intrusive ad, which is now deviantART’s policy if you are not logged in), but his website contains both older and more recent work that is available for sale. Navigation there is a bit disjointed, with links from various places on the homepage that are not accessible from the other pages.

Tracy is a self taught artist with an interest in traditional art, and his range of work chronicles his path in tackling a variety of subjects and media as he explores the possibilities of each.

You will find landscapes, portraits, still life, interiors, florals, animals, copies from the masters and narrative images in oil, watercolor, gouache, egg tempera, acrylic, colored pencil, pastel, graphite, charcoal and even silverpoint.

I find particular interest in seeing him tackle related subjects in different media; for example, painting similar still life arrangements in acrylic, watercolor and oil.

Laurel D. Austin is a concept artist, illustrator and sculptor originally from Canada, based for several years in the UK where she was Senior Concept Artist for Splash Damage, and now living in California where she will be working with Blizzard Entertainment.

Here website has galleries of illustration, concept art, sketches and 3D work. The latter showcases physical sculpture, though she also does some 3D computer modeling.

I particularly enjoy the way she utilizes suggestions of texture in her digital painting, while maintaining a loose, painterly feel in many pieces.

Her blog includes a video step through of her process on her illustration “The Egg Thief” (image above, top), as well as larger versions of some of the pieces in her portfolio.

The sketchbook section of her site contains some nicely handled life drawings done in conté and charcoal on toned paper.

There is also a gallery of her work on CGHub.

Landscapes is a group show currently at the John Pence Gallery in San Francisco that offers a wonderful selection of contemporary painters, as well as including a work by John Fabian Carlson.

Landscapes is on view until October 8, 2011.

(Images above: John F. Carlson, Travis Schlaht, John Morra, Bennett Vadnais, Steven J. Levin, Donald Jurney – links are to the artists’ websites, where available)

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When I first wrote about him in early 2010, painter Jonathan Koch had recently started posting his small paintings online, at the time listing his name as J. Bernard Koch. Shortly after that he seemed to take a hiatus of sorts to work on larger projects, but is now back to posting his small works more often, with a new website address (though the original still works, pointing to the new site).

Koch paints beautifully refined and wonderfully tactile still life subjects, with lost and found edges heightening the sense of depth evoked by his use of chiaroscuro. His carefully controlled palette and subtle manipulation of light carry echoes of the 17th Century Dutch still life masters.

Koch also paints muted, atmospheric landscapes, again with a restrained palette and skillful use of soft edges and suggestion.