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 ...

A Kenwood basement-turned-gallery will highlight the works of long-time South Side painter Donnie Carter next month. The show ...

There’s no feeling quite like exploring a beautiful art museum. Between the lingering smell of dried paint hanging in the air and the subtle hum of people discussing each work, it always leaves me ...

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 ...

Santiago Sánchez brushes red paint along the edge of gold letters, creating a 3-D effect on the black tin sign he's painting. He pauses to pour red "One Shot" paint into the bottom half of a ...

This sign painting course has been around for 100 years at L.A. Trade Tech and is the last sign painting A.A. degree in the nation. Tom Carroll stopped by to chat with the instructors to understand ...

Andrew and Kelsey McClellan have revived the delicate, nearly-lost art of gold-leaf sign painting. One of Chicago’s last gold-leaf sign painters, Robert Frese, shared gilders’ guarded secrets with ...