Karen Baker Thumm

Karen set aside art for many years to start a family but returned to college and received a degree in commercial art in 1984. For ten years she did pet portraits and then horse portraits and is now concentrating on fine art. Sporting art and english riding are her particular favorites. Although she also paints, pencil remains a favorite medium. She is an associate member of The American Academy of Equine Art and an award winning artist.

Karen has been a horse owner for many years. She is learning classical dressage and likes to trail ride on her special horse, Scottie. To see more of her work, visit her website, Alpha Mare Equine Art or follow her blog, Drawing on Life; The Art of Karen Baker Thumm.

Portrait by Duane Lawrence

Duane has been drawing since he was very young. Just about every child draws, but at an early age Duane began to get responses from the adults in his life which indicated that perhaps his drawings were special.

He began with super heroes from the Marvel comic book collection and even thought he might become a comic book illustrator. But in his late teens he switched over to portraiture and began to explore the style that he employs today.

Duane took art classes in high school and college but soon after that all creations went dormant for a while. In fact, he did not put a drawing pencil to paper for many years. Several years ago he began to draw again, in earnest, and today there is always a work in progress.

Mr. Lawrence works in the “photorealist” style, similar to artists Chuck Close and Robert Bechtle who use photographs as reference material. These works are all hand drawn and are not conversions from photos by using any software rendering techniques (like Photoshop). Each drawing takes a great many hours to complete.

Portrait by Duane Lawrence

In addition to being an accomplished visual artist, Duane Lawrence is also a vocalist and professional voice-over artist!

Duane does accept commissions. To see more of his work and to learn about his many other creative talents, please visit Duane’s website at: Pencil Drawings and Portraits by Duane Lawrence (www.duanelawrenceonline.com). You can also email Duane at duanelawrence at duanelawrenceonline dot com.