I’m smitten with these lovely, narrative paintings of people and animals by Chicago-based painter, illustrator and printmaker Kate Pugsley. Kate was born in Cleveland, Ohio and studied at the Rhode Island School Design. She finds inspiration in the small things, like “glimpsing an interesting color combination on the street or simply seeing something out of the [...]
Wow! I’m absolutely in awe of the plethora of amazingly beautiful/ fresh/ modern/ cleanly-designed prints found on Sonnenzimmer’s website. Sonnenzimmer is a graphic arts studio based in Chicago, which was founded in 2006 when Nicholas Butcher and Nadine Nakanishi merged their painting studios and acquired some reasonably priced screen printing equipment. The couple has been [...]
I’m loving these fun, fluorescent abstract pieces by Chicago-based artist Jenn Smith, who happens to have my dream job of art school librarian, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago no less. : ) Jenn has been drawing and painting and making things for around 15 years– she has a bachelor’s degree in studio [...]
I’m absolutely smitten with these charming illustrations by Chicago-based artist and illustrator Laura Berger aka Laura George, whose mural I featured back in February. Below are some of my favorites of hers. (Images via www.etsy.com/shop/laurageorge)
I heart this mural created by the Orange Walls Mural Project in Chicago. It’s definitely not your typical mural. It’s very graphic design-ish.
photo source: laura-berger.blogspot.com
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