Ward Schumaker: I Am Big Heaven

Ward is showing large works on paper this coming June in Shanghai, China. In this interview, he talks about the difference between ART and illustration, and how they intersect in his work.  The paintings...

Gary Kempston posts his latest witty illustrations today

Gary Kempston’s saavy illustration work explores line and form. The London based artist experiments with the texture of the picture’s surface within his pieces, and also employs asymmetric composition and...

Artist Anne Smith posts her latest lovingly detailed gouaches

London illustrator & designer Anne Smith crafts a sophisticated, richly colored, idiosyncratic, lovingly detailed, graphic gouache style- often incorporating painted type. Her work can be found in the...

Artist Chris Lane posts new work today

Chris Lane’s inks and watercolors successfully achieve whimsical satire as well as grim scenes of despair, all the while maintaining an engaging, quirky quality.  He drinks a lot of coffee, eats a lot of...

Artist Doug Bowles weaves imagination and magic

“To be successful as an illustrator today,” says Doug Bowles, “you have to make work that can't be produced any other way.” Bowles graduated from the Columbus College of Art and Design in 1983, and since...

David Pohl is a guru, a DJ, an illustrator, a performance artist

David Pohl is a guru, a DJ, an illustrator, a performance artist, an installation artist, a gardener and oh, yeah, a drummer! "I attempt to illustrate the idea of life as a divine process through which one can...

Emerging artist Jon Reinfurt posts fresh work today

Jon Reinfurt was created in 1980 by a team of German engineers attempting to build the world’s largest robot. When the team unveiled their prototype to the scientific community they were met with harsh criticism...

Sophie Toulouse seduces with her illustration

Parisian illustrator Sophie Toulouse captures the beauty and uncertainty of life in her fantastic, seductive work. Toulouse is the quintessential digital artist, bringing lush graphic design to life.Slightly...

The Heresy of Professor Nimbus

Illustrator Michael Sloan has been following his personal vision through a remarkable series of graphic novels. His true north alter-ego, Professor Nimbus, has earned Michael a Silver Medal from the Society of...

Artist David McLimans wins the 2007 Caldecott Award

"Madison (WI) illustrator David McLimans, whose Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet has won a 2007 Caldecott Honor.The Honor is presented each year to distinguished children's picture books by Association for...

Artist Melinda Beck posts new illustrations today

"My work is a hybrid of computer and hand done. I will often take sculptural pieces and digital photography and combine those elements into the illustration." Her illustrative process begins with many quick...

Excerpt from newly published Depression-era coming of age memoir

We could always count on Mrs. Hattie Rakestraw's colorful character. Five of my boyhood years were filled with trips down the hill, sometimes just to borrow a cooking ingredient or deliver a message. Miss Hattie...