This is a quick follow up to our last post about Riverside, IL. While visiting Grumpy's (itself a local landmark) we sadly missed the coffee shop's former location in the Arcade Building which is currently undergoing renovation, but were pleased to find some attractive and appropriately themed paintings on the walls.
Both Susan Hong-Sammons (above) and Walter Monastyretsky (below) have immortalized the ice cream monger in oils.
More about the artists and see Monastyretsky's painting of the Riverside Water Tower after the jump.
Painting of Riverside in the snow by Walter Monastyretsky
Originally from the Ukraine, Monastyretsky has made the Chicago area his home since 1998. His work covers a broad range of subjects from portraits to still life, murals and landscapes including pieces on beautiful Illinois locations such as Graue Mill in Hinsdale, Lake Forest, Chicago's Lincoln Park and Morton Arboretum.
Visit the Walter Monastyretsky website.
Susan Hong-Sammons also paints city scenes and landscapes but prefers to work 'en plein air’ meaning, on site and from direct observation, not from a photograph. Being a local northern Illinois artist, her outdoor work wisely is put on hold for the winter months when Susan moves indoors and turns her focus to still life including gorgeous flower paintings. We are particularly fond or her figurative pieces. Susan discusses and shows her work in different stages of development on her blog Journaling Oils and Words.
