one day i'll also add other media but right now this is largely painters, illustrators, and designers

• Anirudh Acharya
• Lane Brown
• Marjorie Cameron
• Leonora Carrington
• Rowan E Cassidy
• Leonardo DaVinci
• Frank Dicksee
• Yana Dhyana
• Charlotte Edey
• Frank Frazetta
• Brian Froud
• Catherine Hyde
• Hasui Kawase
• Yayoi Kusama
• Lindsey Kustusch
• Mœbius (Jean Giraud)
• Jennifer Mills
• John Pitre
• Rae Ritchie
• Bob Ross
• Masaaki Sasamoto
• Ivan Shishkin
• Friedrich Schröder Sonnenstern
• Ulla Thynell
• Uri Tuchman
• Remedios Varo
• Anastasia Vostrezova
• Holly Warburton
• Pilar Zeta

and here are a few of my top favorite individual paintings of all time:

• "combing her hair" by pavlos samoios (1977, oil)
• "the end of the quest" by frank dicksee (1920, oil)