Sara Hughes is a sculptural artist that uses psychedelic colours, even though i am doing landscape paintings, i can use her choice of colours and style in my own way and develop them to work on paper.

Jon Tootill's works are implicitly loaded with political concerns and provide social commentary on historical and cultural phenomena. He demonstrates great inventiveness in his use of symbols and materials to describe events and characters. His works are rich in narrative content, surface treatment and powerful, argued iconography.
He uses flat colours with a smooth gradient, it looks "cartoonish" but its a very difficult thing to do.

Colin Mccahon's paintings usually consist of landscapes and are mostly clean, smooth rolling hills. This is one of my favorites of his work "six days". The tonal range in the skies of each section show stormy, cloudy and slightly clear skies.

Fernando Vicente's art works are modern but done in a 1930's style. Every portrait he has done, he has done it in a circular border which gives a nice vintage addition to it. All his subjects are female and he always draws internal parts of the body which looks creepy but amazing.

H. R. Giger is recognized as one of the world’s foremost artists of Fantastic Realism. Born in 1940 to a chemist’s family in Chur, Switzerland, he moved in 1962 to Zurich, where he studied architecture and industrial design at the School of Applied Arts. By 1964 he was producing his first artworks, mostly ink drawings and oil paintings, resulting in his first solo exhibition in 1966, followed by the publication and world-wide distribution of his first poster edition in 1969. Shortly after, he discovered the airbrush and, along with it, his own unique freehand painting style, leading to the creation of many of his most well known works, the surrealistic Biomechanical dreamscapes, which formed the cornerstone of his fame.

Darcy Nicholas is a leading contemporary Maori painter sculptor writer, curator, events manager, and commentator on Maori issues.  He has exhibited throughout New Zealand, Australia, Africa, United States, France, Britain, Canada, and been part of several joint exhibitions that have travelled internationally.   


He paints his portraits how he sees himself and not what he looks like. Though there may be recognizable features of him in his paintings.