Artistic confidence is a valuable asset when it is warranted, but a terrible liability when not. Unfortunately, the nature of confidence...

Once upon a time, the world's largest media companies bragged in full page ads about their upcoming illustrations: From the back cov...

Last week the Society of Illustrators opened a wonderful exhibition of pulp magazine covers from the 1930s and 40s.  The show includes nea...

Jeffrey Catherine Jones struggled with battles that other painters never had to face.  His fragile nervous system supported his great tal...

I like the combination of power and sensitivity in this lovely drawing by Kent Williams . His composition is fearless; look at how boldly...

Is there such a thing as background?  Or is everything really foreground? Illustrator Robert Heindel once said about his hero Bernie Fuch...

In September 1940 Hitler began his blitz campaign of dropping incendiary bombs on the major population centers of Britain, hoping to burn t...

Augustus John on the cover of Time Magazine, by Boris Chaliapin It's difficult to think of an artist, or a human being, who made a b...

The traditional recipe for a mural requires: One (1) person wealthy enough to own a big wall; and one (1) person talented enough to paint ...