A oil painting of kids and their teacher riding in a hot air balloon with dragons flying in the sun set sky. It is a cover illustration for a series of books called Start Off Strong published by the Great Books Foundation in Chicago.

A new series of editorial humorous cartoons depicting everyday life added to the Artclicker Library.

Creative Vectors. A series of premium illustrations created in Adobe Illustrator. Sleek, contemporary and editable. Artclicker has a large collection of royalty free vector images.See more: http://greatsketch.com/show.php?i=146

A new series added to the Artclicker Premium Stock Image library named Grafik, inspired by graphic of the 1940′s. Themes are created by compositions of shapes, lines and typography. Vector based to provide versatility.

33 illustrations were created for a marketing group in Chicago for one of their clients. The graphic style of people in wellness lifestyle settings were done in Adobe Illustrator. The vector files give more flexibility in usage.

I was hired by the Great Books Foundation to create a logo, poster and a 8 page brochure to help celebrate Junior Great Books 50th anniversary. The idea was formed when I was browsing my library of images. I came across a series called Camouflage and was intrigued by an illustration of a hand, opened palm and fingers spread. I went on to create another hand making the number “0″ to complete the hands making the sign “50″. The type treatment overlapped the graphic to create connection.

Continuous line illustrations were created for Cleveland Clinic as visual centerpieces for the ad campaign. The lines are also animated for other media usages. See more: http://greatsketch.com/show.php?i=68

New bird prints are added to the collection which are now on sale at the Chicago Botanic Garden, Longwood Gardens, PA, American Museum of Natural History, NYC. Print size is 5″ X 7″ with a 8″ X 10″ mat. Sales are increasing every week.

See more birds:http://www.studio10twentytwo.com/index.php?db=sc&k=Birds

INCCRRA, Illinois Network of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies, ordered 14 illustrations to be used for their marketing programs. The illustrations were leased with unlimited usage from the Artclicker Stock Library. The style is called School and created digitally.

See more on this category: http://greatsketch.com/show.php?i=123

April’s 2012 at 225 W Washington. Impressionistic painting of rolling hills in oil on wood panels. The red cedars in the foreground on the right panel and fading hills and trees help to create an illusion of distance. Blue sky and white clouds are helpful in establishing the season. Dimensions 12′ W X 8′ H. Next installation April, 2012.

May2012 at the Borg Warner Building at 200 S Michigan Ave. The large paintings, are part of a series called Camouflage. Watercolor, oil, and wall paint were used to create the panels. Next installation September, 2012

A 24″ X 30″ oil painting of the Aqua Building in downtown Chicago was commissioned by the Radisson Blu Hotel and Pace Communications help celebrate its grand opening.

A new series called crazy machines was created for Artclicker. Humorous and inventive.

A series of Asian prints on 8″ X 10″ black mats are on sale at the Chicago Botanic Garden. See more: http://www.studio10twentytwo.com/index.php?db=sc&k=Asian

Organic. Series of fruits and vegetables rendered in deep rich colors. Prints for this series are on sale at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Thanks to the management of  Event Network and the store director of the Chicago Botanic Garden for giving me this opportunity to showcase the art work.

See more Organic: http://www.studio10twentytwo.com/index.php?db=sc&k=Vegetables

New art added to Artclicker stock library. Farmer’s Market, a series of vegetables and fruits done in watercolor on paper. Fun and colorful. I want to keep adding diversity to the library. Keeping the series to about 20 to 25 pieces helps ideas stay fresh. See

Outsider. simple and provocative. Promotes imaginative concepts. razor point, watercolor.

Waterscapes. Fine lines, loose brush strokes and bright colors are the structures of this series. Razor point, watercolor on paper. See more: http://greatsketch.com/show.php?i=161

Sarcasm. A series of  illustrations that contain ironic language intended to convey social criticism.

See  more: http://greatsketch.com/show.php?i=129

Atmosphere. Transparent color shapes on black background create imaginary atmospheres. This series is part of  the Artclicker Creative Vector collection. See more: http://greatsketch.com/show.php?i=121

Graphic 70. Inspired by the graphic illustrations of the 1970′s. See more: http://greatsketch.com/show.php?i=140

Animal Farm. Silly, colorful and fun.

Black Chalk. Broad pencil strokes provoke deep moods. Pencil on tracing paper.

See more: http://greatsketch.com/show.php?i=116

Cover illustrations for the Junior Great Books’ Read Out Loud program. It’s another great opportunity to stretch my imagination and skills. The technique I plan to use starts with a pencil drawing and then apply deep rich colors digitally. The drawing is the foundation so it must be detailed, but animated. Needs to bring life to the animal characters.

See more Greatbooks projects: http://greatsketch.com/cview.php?c=3

New illustrations were used in a series of sampler in 2010. They contained cover and interior illustrations.

See sampler: http://greatsketch.com/show.php?i=110

Level 2 samplers

The Wedding Basket: http://greatsketch.com/show.php?i=86

The Girl and the Chenoo: http://greatsketch.com/show.php?i=90

The Jade Stone: http://greatsketch.com/show.php?i=88

Miss Maggie: http://greatsketch.com/show.php?i=87

Roundtable.

3 covers and 40 frontis illustrations were published in 2009. This projects concluded with a trip to the National Middle School Conference in Indianapolis. I was invited by The Greatbooks Foundation to sign posters given away as gifts to school representatives that attended the event.

Roundtable Level 1: http://greatsketch.com/show.php?i=14

Roundtable Level 2: http://greatsketch.com/show.php?i=62

Roundtable Level 3: http://greatsketch.com/show.php?i=63

Posters: http://greatsketch.com/show.php?i=81

Artclicker is a online source for premium illustrations licensed for Royalty Free and Rights-Managed. The diverse collections provide quality options to the creative community of artist, advertiser, web designer, publisher and hobbyist. The library, created by Chicago artist Rich Lo, contains original art of traditional and contemporary styles executed in watercolor, charcoal, oil and other mediums. New exciting images are added each day to give you the best creative options at affordable prices. Artclicker premiers Fall 2012.

See Artclicker slide show: http://artclicker.com

A video was produced by Al Rasho and David McGown on the work and philosophy of the studio at the historical Fine Arts Building in downtown Chicago.

Watch it on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QxK-FkQ-OA

The studio is located at the Historical Fine Arts Building in downtown Chicago. For over a 100 years the building has been a home for artists. For me personally, it is a place to work, cultivate discussions, share food and laughter.