Glenn Arthur research

I found this really interesting artist showed to me by a college friend called "Glenn Arthur" who is a self taught visual artist from orange county who uses huge varieties of different media but mostly paintings and drawings with coloured pencils and sometimes oils. He uses imagery that was influential in his life from his past present and significant stories that he's shared which I think is a beautiful way to portray personal feelings and emotions through your art and makes you even more passionate which is clearly what he does. His work is currently being sold in numerous different exhibitions around America and the internet and is displayed in museums and galleries. His work also revolves around major themes that are complimented by mostly conflicting imagery, the major themes are death, duality, love and conflict which are all subjects that an artist can get really passionate about. I also think this artist is brilliant to mention in my work because it fits into my art perfectly almost like it's from the same genre even though his women aren't so modern because he's a neo-victorian enthusiast that brings modern themes of imagery into them that mainly consist of tattoo and body art which is similar to the imagery used in mine and his work is a great inspiration to me. Here are some examples of his work:

 Here is the first example, cthis is part of his fairytale series of artwork in which he's re-create several different characters from fairytales in this way, incorporating tattoo artwork with this vintage style of drawing women looks stunning and is definitely a huge inspiration for my work. My favourite part though is the face- here eyes are beautiful and stand out with the way they shine along with the other facial features as everything is very feminine which is strange to see from a male artist. Over all his work is very much in the same style as mine which is probably why I like him so much.