Resources & Links - NAL Member's Personal Websites

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NAL Member's Personal Website Links

  • George Ceffalio - After several years of developing my painting style, I have found that by uniting elements of realism, elements of abstract painting and the chiaroscuro style, which is the contrast between light and dark, I can create paintings that capture the essence of the subject. 
  • Dennis Chadra -  Oil, Watercolor, Pen & Ink. Dennis paints still life, landscape and portraits in the chiaroscuro style, which uses light and dark to achieve a heightened illusion of depth.
  • Hughes, Christopher - Acrylic.  Naperville, IL resident since 1998 has been inspired by our Mid-West landscapes to the great cities around the world that he has visited or has lived.
  • Donna Nevels - Photography. Donna is able to find her trade mark brilliant color wherever she goes.  Her work is much more than pretty travel pictures.   She instinctively composes and captures the emotion portrayed in the scenes she sees, and presents. She captures the spirit of her subjects. Her passion for her art is felt.
  • Bernhard Adams - Technical photography and art.
  • Merike Adams -  She started out with pottery, and later took up drawing and painting, as well. Her work also includes decorative crafts, such as greeting cards and glass-bead jewelry. With respect to painting, her main interests are nature and portraits. Merike has worked as an art educator, and also gives private lessons to children in the techniques of drawing and painting.
  • Paper Snowflakes by Les Barker - I create intricate, hand-cut paper snowflakes using tracing paper and an X-acto knife. As a graphic designer, I like to experiment by incorporating various symbols and designs to create unique works of art.
  • Geoffrey Benes - "Mr. Benes, a master artisan of carved wooden waterfowl and shorebirds".
  • Mike Bessler - Mike Bessler - 630-667-5174 - Fine Art - Digital Copying of Paintings - On Location Photography Workshops - Professional and Custom Giclee Printing - Commercial Photography - Photo Restoration and Editing - Member National Association of Photoshop Professionals
  • Moore-Beulah, Lea - Acrylic abstracts "Live Life Vibrantly"
  • Nancy D'Agostino- Acrylic & Mixed Media paintings.
  • Marilyn Dale - 630.745.7450 Pastels, Oils. Portrait commissions. Specializing in commissioned artwork and graphic design. Available for murals, portraits, and fine art as well as business coaching, marketing material development, design and production.
  • Gordon France - Impressionist cityscapes, landscapes, figures and sports paintings in oil and watercolor.
  • Jacqueline France - Oil Paintings.
  • Angela Graefenhain - Acrylics, murals, painted fabric.
  • Pamela Hart Studio - Naperville IL 
  • Kio Kreations - Kristen Janes | (630) 862-5486 | Illustrator, Graphic Designer, Floral Designer, Mural Artist.
  • Sue Keller - Susanne E. Keller, The Eclectic Canvas (866)745-6401 (toll free) Oil, Acrylic, watercolor, colored pencil. Commissioned work, including Protraits of people and animals.
  • Barb Lipkin - Barbara Lipkin paints a variety of subjects, such as landscapes and cityscapes of Europe, figurative “history” paintings, and explorations of the possibilities of expression of flowers and fruits. She prefers a bright, warm palette, and her paintings are known for their rich colors. Her preferred mediums are oils and pastels.
  • “Share in the Magic of New Orleans” - Cathy Luckhart 630.416.0298 Photography.
  • McKee, Maureen - Maureen's work can best be described having impressionist tendencies that incorporate rhythm and vibrancy. Each painting’s takes it’s own imaginative pilgrimage. I love color and motion! I work primarily in oil media - Oil Pastel, Oil, and Oil Monotypes and enjoy the diversity of each in my explorations of creating visual images.
  • Pamela Olin - Pamela Olin believes in stepping out of our boundaries to gain perspective on our lives. Her ideas dictate the media used to achieve her goals. Pamela creates with steel, bronze, copper, brass, stone and various found objects. These elements, combined with paint, canvas and life, enable her to evoke emotional responses deep within her viewers.
  • Schroedel, Cindy - Jewelry
  • Fred Schultz, M.D. - There is a creative need inside of me which I express through art. My paintings, influenced by Impressionism, flow easily from my heart to the paper.
  • Dan Sellers - Acrylics.
  • George Shipperley - Oil Pastels. 
  • Sperry Fine Art - Richard Sperry considers himself a modern abstract expressionist and states, "It is nature in all its symbiotic relationships that inspire my interpretation of every day life". He creates emotionally charged layers of textures, colors and images that are raw, spontaneous and often stream of consciousness
  • Jerry Strub - Jerry Strub is an abstract artist who utilizes acrylics, ( periodically mixed with pumice ), on canvas. "Aristic creation is the end result of emotion, whether it be a paint by numbers or a caught in the jaws of life emotion. It's all in the mind set and imagination of the beholder. Life's precarious journey governs my artistic emotion".
  • Laura Lein-Svencner - Paper to Canvas. Artist, Collage Teacher and Demonstrator.
  • Ray Upham - Photography
  • Anne Von Ehr - Pastels and workshops.
  • Gary Wick - Soft Pastels
  • Janet Wickham - Oil Stick
  • Susan R. Wilson - 630-663-9913 studio Oil Stick and Pastel Landscape Artist
  • Carol Zack is a Chicago area artist. She enjoys using vibrant color in her compositions and takes inspiration from the French impressionist painters who visually explored nature and people with the use of broken color to create an energetic surface of unmixed color.
  • Zaki - Acrylic paintings.