This year would have marked the 120th anniversary of Chicago’s School of Illustration. As it happened, the institution lasted about a half-dozen years, from 1898 to 1904. Over that period, however, it ...

Chicagoans are very proud of their city's flag, and this civic pride can be witnessed throughout the city and on peoples' bodies. The Chicago flag is pretty much everywhere in the Windy City. And ...

The St. Jane Hotel, formerly the Hard Rock Hotel, recently installed an art deco-inspired illustration spanning nearly 25 feet across the Carbon & Carbide building’s front facade. The artist ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Rich Green, illustrator of Chicago Treasure, ...

Make your guests feel like VIP’s with one-of-a-kind live fashion illustrations for any event. Artist and owner of Ivy’s Illustrations, Ivy McConnell joined us to break down the magic behind these live ...

This week, in our Artist Spotlight a multi-talented painter, illustrator and graphic designer! From big international campaigns to small French children’s books, Floraine Roussel adapts her unique ...

Chicago-based designer Louis DeGuzman knows that art is all about the details. He describes his work as "intricate conceptualization" and stresses that a great deal of his inspiration comes from ...

One of the greatest English painters of the 20th Century, Francis Bacon, long sought to avoid having his figurative paintings become illustration. This was so important to him because throughout his ...

Once upon a time, 86 years ago in the city of Chicago, a man named Lyman Frank Baum sat down at the insistence of his mother-in-law to write out a bedtime story that he liked to tell to his children.