A fine point of distinction Bobert. I would put Maxfield Parrish as an artist who did illustrations and Thomas Kinkade as an illustrator who thinks he's an artist. That tends to draw a line, so to speak. C.W. Wyeth was an artist and an illustrator as was Rockwell who did both fine art (which you don't often see) and illustration.

I have little truck with those who project or trace from photographs. To me, that's on the level of coloring books. Sorry if that offends anyone but it's just my maybe, not-so-humble opinion.

Love using the Rapidograph pen and those that function like them. Ink fascinates me and I have experimented with my own, well, actually reproducing some of the iron and organic varieties of the past.

Cezanne I love for his bold use of color and topics. Gauguin and Van Gough (extraodinary genius) wonderful. Klee, I'm iffy on, undecided. Dali, in his prime, funny, sarcastic, iconoclastic, just great. Thread drift? You bet. The latter Dali was rather pathetic due to the blood suckers that got a hold on him. At any rate, I love art (static? static visual?) and would like to see some of your work sometime there Bobert!