"There are many art books for children that feature Old Masters work, which is great, but we wanted to go in a different direction," Jessica Brown, creative director of Home Grown Books, said of the ...

In the work of artists I admire, all the training and discipline come out in an act of letting go: a splotch of ink, a wayward wash of color. Credit...Antonio Carrau Supported by By Elisha Cooper ...

Acclaimed professional illustrator Ralph Masiello was visiting the Saw Dust Coffee House & Dessert Bar in Sturbridge when he was struck by what he said were "these very realistic nice pencil drawings ...

“If Nancy and I had been in the second grade together, we would have been the kids in the back that were drawing and writing,” artist Claudia McGehee said, reflecting on her first ever collaboration ...

Leo Lionni, "And a family of frogs, on their way to a distant pond, stopped in awe," illustration for The Biggest House in the World (1968, Pantheon), mixed media on ...

Summer vacation is about beaches, rambles in the country, visits to museums. Children’s books can make all those good things better. “Good Night, Good Beach,” exudes the satisfactions of a ...

For Asheville sumi-e artist Maki Nishio Phipps, the process of creating a painting is like a dance through which her emotions can explode onto a blank canvas. “Viewers who look at my work have to be ...

The multi-Grammy award-winning artist and songwriter will publish her debut children’s picture book, Everywhere You Are, with Putnam Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers.

STATEN ISLAND, NY -- Many people in the Chinese adoption community choose to believe in the Red Thread Proverb, a piece of folklore stating that an invisible red thread connects people destined to ...

When visitors walk inside Judy O'Toole-Freel's and Mirle Freel's home they are engulfed by all the colors of an Arizona sunset, and then some. More than 60 paintings, from pink dancing women to green ...