Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s no feeling quite like exploring a beautiful art museum. Between the lingering smell of dried paint hanging in the air and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The couple has a cute dachshund named Dahlia, who enjoys napping on a couch near the front windows of as colorful a storefront business as you are likely to ...

Mark Grotjahn (pronounced Groat-john) is widely recognized for his painting prowess. Since the mid-1990s, he’s made radiating butterfly-wing-like bursts of rainbow color that create schisms in vision; ...

Installation view of The Pre-Vinylette Society: An International Showcase of Women Sign Painters at Chicago Art Department (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) CHICAGO — In 2012, people ...

Norma Jeanne Maloney, seen in her Austin studio in 2012, will do live sign painting at the HCCC this Friday through Sunday. Credit: Photo by Faythe Levine and Sam Macon Some art forms just don’t get ...

Joseph Giampino can’t find any emerald-green paint. Half-pint cans of 1 Shot lettering enamel paint are stacked in every corner of his Maywood Road studio, bursting at the seams alongside tool ...

It’s a realm where frothy beer mugs are the size of people and pancakes frolic in a pool. Where every brush stroke is crafted by the imagination behind the hand that paints it. What’s up with that?

In an increasingly digital world, where design software can turn anyone into an instant Leonardo da Vinci, it’s easy to forget that signs were once lettered by hand using sable brushes, mineral ...

In fact, Lee’s works should be the first thing you see. “I do all the hand painted signs for McMenamins hotels and restaurants,” he said. “Pretty much any one you go, the signs are something that ...