Sadie Jernigan Valeri

Here is an artist who's footsteps I could only hope to follow. Also a RISD graduate, she has paved her own way into the classical realism art world, studying under Juliette Artistides, Ted Seth Jacobs, and the the Studio Escalier in France (*biting my hand because that is my dream school*), and Michael Grimaldi, amongst other amazing modern classical artists. Here is her blog. Beautiful work. Her blog is also very helpful, as it has many demos and videos of her process.