jeffrey decoster

The Daily Muse: Jeffrey Decoster, Illustrator

Elusive Muse is excited to present the work of the Jeffrey Decoster, an amazing illustrator from California.

Sarah Amos

The Daily Muse: An Exclusive Interview with Master Printmaker Sarah Amos

Sarah Amos is a Vermont-based Australian printmaker currently practicing in the United States. Her prints are created by hand on a large etching press.

Mark Yearwood

The Daily Muse: Mark Yearwood, Abstract Painter

Yearwood worked for over 27 years in graphic design, along the way doing a few art projects, three-dimensional pieces, from his own shop materials.

Tran Nguyen

The Daily Muse: Tran Nguyen, Illustrator

Tran Nguyen is an award-winning illustrator and gallery artist. Born in Vietnam and raised in the States, she is fascinated with creating visuals that can be used as a psycho-therapeutic support vehicle, exploring the mind’s landscape.

Jason Holley

The Daily Muse: Jason Holley, Illustrator, Teacher and Musician

Jason Holley is an artist, illustrator, teacher, and musician living in Los Angeles who teaches illustration at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA.

Handiedan

The Daily Muse: Handiedan, Collage Artist

The art of Dutch artist Handiedan (1981, Netherlands) involves a complex cut and paste mixture of computer montage and highly detailed sculptural hand cut collages, complimented by conscientiously collected antique ornamental frames.

The Daily Muse: Ana Zanic, Painter

Elusive Muse shares the inspiring work of painter Ana Zanic.

The Daily Muse: Diana Sudyka, Illustrator

Diana Sudyka (pronounced soo-dee-kah. It’s Polish, by the way) is an illustrator from Chicago that creates for a broad range of areas: editorial, book, album art and screen printed gigposters. Musicians that she has created work for include: Andrew Bird, St. Vincent, The Black Keys, Iron & Wine, The Decemberists, and Modest Mouse. She has illustrated several volumes of the award winning children’s book series “The Mysterious Benedict Society” by Trenton Lee Stewart, and more recently featured in Gigposters Volume 1: Rock Show Art of the 21st Century (Quirk Books),Illustrators Unlimited The Essence of Contemporary Illustration (Gestalten Press), and New Ornamental Type by Steven Heller and Gail Anderson. When she is not working in her studio she volunteers at the Field Museum of Natural History. More of her work can be seen at The Tiny Aviary.

The Daily Muse: Magda Boreysza, Illustrator

Elusive Muse featured illustrator Magda Boreysza.

The Daily Muse: Léo-Vinh Beauvois, Painter and Illustrator

Originally Eurasian Léo- Vinh draws inspiration from the mixture of these two cultures, but also in the works of past masters such as Klimt, Mucha, Gauguin and Impressionism Pre-Raphaelites.

The Daily Muse: Amy Earles, Illustrator

Amy Earles is an artist and expert daydreamer made of flaking paint and books falling apart at the seams.

The Daily Muse: An Exclusive Interview with Painter Phyllis Stapler

An exclusive interview with Phyllis Stapler.

The Daily Muse: An Exclusive Interview with Rachel Frankel, Illustrator and Graphic Artist

Rachel Frankel is a freelance illustrator and graphic designer based in Oakland, California. Her interests lie primarily within the realms of editorial & book illustration, surface design, and hand-lettering. She blogs frequently about her process as well as about other illustrators, designers and typographers she admires. In addition to artmaking, she plays guitar and sings in a band called Phosphene. Her love of music often finds its way into her illustrations, especially in her portrait series of favorite songwriters–including Neko Case, Sharon Van Etten, Kathleen Hanna and The National. She also maintains a series of illustrated vegan-centric recipes over at The Slug Kitchen.

The Daily Muse: Christian Schloe, Digital Artist

Christian Schloe is a talented Austrian artist whose work includes digital art, painting, illustration, and photography. As he says: “Anything can happen in a world that holds such beauty.”

The Daily Muse: Tom Bagshaw, Digital Artist

Based in the Georgian city of Bath, England, Tom Bagshaw works as a commercial illustrator under the moniker Mostlywanted and is represented by The Central Illustration Agency. His talents are sought after by clients in fashion, advertising, editorial and publishing, and include Saatchi & Saatchi, Sony, the BBC, The Daily Telegraph, Kraft, GQ, Future Publishing, Scholastic and Random House.