Robert Burch News

My wife and I have just been accepted as mentors for Art All-State. We’ll be working with high school Jr.’s from all over Massachusetts at the Worcester Art Museum collaborating in groups and designing our own art projects. It promises to be an amazing time. We even get to spend the night in the museum. […]

My new friend Mina at DejaArt recently asked me if she could post some of my work. DejaArt is a great new portal for illustration, fonts, book reviews, competitions and media buyers. There are a lot of good illustrators on the site. I highly recommend checking it out and while you’re at it check […]

This is a print of Mount Fuji. My wife Meghan and I were offered a place to stay in Kyoto if we want to visit Japan next summer. Because japanese art has been such a strong influence on my work I’m naturally excited about the prospect of going. It’s a long way to travel, at […]

Recently created the Robert Burch Illustration Shop on Etsy to started selling some of my originals. I’m going to post a new one every day for a month. They are all mounted on 1″ think blocks of wood, drilled in the back so that they’re ready to hang. Please check […]

FARMIDABLE: I’ve become more and more interested in patterns as my illustration has progressed over the years. Last year I started making my own when I got together with a couple of friends and came up with the idea of making patterns for desktop wallpaper and selling them. We knew that there are a lot […]

I’ve been pretty busy with small illustration jobs as well as the new FARMIDABLE site (which is finally up) so I haven’t added a news post in awhile. Here’s an image of a map I did of Manhattan about building projects that never became reality. It was a fun project especially since I haven’t done […]

I’ve been really busy lately and haven’t had much time to post to the news blog. I’ve done two pieces for InfoWord, a painting for POZ Magazine and one for Treasury & Risk Management. It’s nice to be busy with work. I’ve been working out a couple of personal pieces too and I think they’re […]

What kind of husband would I be if I did not do a post about my wife’s new venture. Meg has been working on hand made handbags for over a year now, often working late into the night. Each one is designed by her and screen printed by hand with her own drawings. She […]

I have a lot of places I look for reference: Goggle images, old photos, Japanese prints, classic paintings, even video sometimes. Most of the time though my best option for getting what I want from my rough sketches to more finished ones is the 10 sec timer on my camera and a nice tripod. […]

Round Online is a great online collaborative magazine that focuses on a particular topic or art form per issue. I had the opportunity to do an illustration for a very sad a poem titled, After Dave’s Body Turned on Itself, (that is not a haiku) by Marcella Hammer about cancer for […]

This is my first news post, so it’s pretty much just a test to make sure every thing is up and running smooth. I plan on trying to post news once per week.
This is a sketch for a Christmas card I’ve been working on. The three wise men have made it […]