I’m not quite sure why Ms. Clarke’s animal paintings haunt me–color, composition, mysterious haunted feeling–but they do.

Glorious watercolor-like abstracts that always fascinate me

Name like that, gotta be an artist. She gets airbrush-like clarity from pastels, drawing the way O’Henry wrote.

New direction for this master of precision strip-cutting, and I am purely in love with this piece. It’s even nicer from the side.

Baltimore city art teacher makes art after my own heart, serene but with an…edge. Flick to her blog, click the slideshow, and look closer.

Simply amazing shading with plain old colored pencils. The delicacy of her work is just beautiful.

Cnidarians! She does cnidarians! Beautiful renderings of sea critters. Now if she’d only do nudibranchs I’d be in heaven…

I’m not usually cow-obsessed, but I just like her palettes and the line of her work. And she’s got a self-portrait on Facebook that I crave.

He works in a variety of media, including stained and fused glass, and does them beautifully.

Kathleen’s a long-time glassist who works glass cold and warm, and some of her stained glass is just plain happy-making.

Bringing everyday objects into a new focus

Yup. That’s glass. Cameo glass. I get lost in it.

I wish these photographed better–quiet contemplations that go on for miles.

Silkscreened image manipulation on sheets of glass…

Wonderful series on icestorms in the northcentral US

Paints with glass powder, using precious few colors but a world of depth and shading