Artist Spotlight: Dave Devries

In his book The Monster Engine, artist Dave Davries takes children's drawings and turns them into realistic illustrations.

Artist Spotlight: Dave Barnes

Canadian Dave Barnes' artistic approach involves the practice of transforming modern concept to reveal nostalgic mood, sometimes refered to as “Oldification”. Recycled elements (such as vintage newspapers and comics), faded colours, layered/collaged backgrounds, and sand~papered imagery all play a part in this process, along with the use of bold observational line and memory dissolved Rockwellian imagery. Often disregarding conventional rectangular canvases for manipulated wooden shapes to help emphasize theme and subject, he tries to use art as a translation of experience and observation that derives inspiration from environment and memory.

Artist Spotlight: Iain MacArthur

Iain MacArthur of Swindon, UK does some awesome surrealist illustrations using mostly pencil, watercolours and pigment pens. In 2008 he graduated from swindon college in HND illustration.

Artist Spotlight: Pablo Auladell

Pablo Auladell was born in Alicante, Spain, in 1972. He is longsighted, self-taught and has got no cat at home. He received the Second Best Illustrated Book for Children Award in 2005 (Spanish Ministry of Culture) for Peiter, Peter and Peer and other Andersen Tales. He also received the Best New Talented Author Award in the 'Saló del Cómic de Barcelona' 2006 for the comic-book La Torre Blanca. Pablo is currently working as freelance illustrator in Alicante.