January’s 2012 at 225 W Washington. Impressionistic painting of a snow scene in oil on wood panels. The large tree on the right panel and fading tree line help to create an illusion of distance. The snow defined the time of the year. Dimensions 12′ W X 8′ H. Next installation April, 2012.

January 2012 at the Borg Warner Building at 200 S Michigan Ave. The large paintings, “Masquerade” on the north wall and “Card Player” on the west wall, are the most enjoyable paintings I’ve done in the year 2011. Expressive and colorful, exciting interpretations of people in masks. Next installation May, 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.

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. A sketch of the components are displayed. A final color version will be shown when the promotion is launched.

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

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

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.

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://greatsketch.com/show.php?i=159

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 more: http://greatsketch.com/show.php?i=168

New bird prints are added to the collection which are now on sale at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Print size is 5″ X 7″ with a 8″ X 10″ mat. Sales are increasing every week.

See more birds: http://greatsketch.com/show.php?i=156

April Wine. Inspired by the panels created for the 225 W Washington Building April rotation. Simplified shapes, light pencil lines, oil rubbed background on paper. See more: http://greatsketch.com/show.php?i=157

Outsider. simple and provocative. Promotes imaginative concepts. razor point, watercolor, Chinese ink on paper.

See more:  http://greatsketch.com/show.php?i=150

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

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

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

Newarker. A series of humorous cartoons depict everyday life. Pencil, watercolor on paper.

See more: http://greatsketch.com/show.php?i=119

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 summer 2011.

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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.