Kim Cogan

Back to some more traditional work. These are gorgeously painted and of course I just can't resist a good night scene. There's plenty of daylight equally well done at kimcogan.com
(please click on these, especially the second piece, to see a little more detail)

















"Night Owl" 38x50in. 2009













"Williamsburg at Midnight" 34x64in. 2008
















"Room Without a View" 24x36in. 2009

Brian Despain

More robots (at: despainart.com).
One little side-path leads to a whole superhighway of this sort of thing (Check out the links on his website and those on Eric Joyner's as well). I thought these were particularly gorgeous in their rendering. And I've always maintained that there's no clear line between fine Art and illustration. Case in point...






















"Escape" 16x20in. 2008























"The Stranger" 6x8in. 2007

Eric Joyner

Robots and donuts. Those are the main ingredients here. Oh there's also trains and motorcycles, the occasional spaceman and oh yeah, lots and lots of talent.
ericjoyner.com





















"All Was Not Lost" 2008













"Spring" 2007





















"Summer" 2007

Peter Tankey

Here's more realism, this time from Australia. His best work are these beautifully rendered and colorful bits of trash but I'm also including some portraits just because they could be described in exactly the same way.
See more work at petertankey.com





















"Tin Can Study" 25 x 25cm 2008






















Untitled 84 x 84cm 2008


































portraits untitled 25 x 25cm 2009