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Rob Howard attended The School of The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston where he mastered classical painting, drawing methods and techniques. In the mid-60’s, he and Jerry Pinkney founded Kaleidoscope Studio. Now, with over forty years of experience in all aspects of art and having founded The Studio for Illustration, he now operates a busy portrait studio. During that forty year period he illustrated eleven books for several publishers. The Sakura Company sponsored an exhibition of his work in five cities in Japan. His Japanese publisher is Yugakusha Ltd. His book illustrations are in the collection of both The Boston Public Library and The Kerlan Collection.
DC Heath, Lothrop Lee and Shepard, McGraw-Hill and Crowell-Collier have all published books of his illustrations. His illustrations have toured in numerous shows and museums. Over the years, he has illustrated and designed book covers for Little Brown, Houghton Mifflin, Allyn Bacon, Avon Books, Ballantine Books, Berkely Books and Dell. These covers number in the hundreds. Howard’s executive portraits are a mainstay of his current practice. Among his many corporate clients are Apollo Computer, Bank of Boston, BASF, Coca-Cola, Codex, Compugraphic, Converse, Daisy Mfg., Data General, Digital, Filene’s, Fisher-Price, Gillette, Heublein, Honeywell Computer, John Hancock Insurance, Jordan Marsh, Lotus, Nynex, Ocean Spray, Papa Gino, Prime Computer, Reebok, Sony, St.Regis Paper and Wang. He wrote and illustrated The Illustrators Bible, the top-selling definitive sourcebook of illustrator’s techniques, published in the U.S and U.K by Watson-Guptill, New York. He also wrote Gouache For Illustration for the same publisher. Gouache was the first book written on this subject in 30 years. He is currently affiliated with Random House . He is now at work on a series of online art instruction books exploring the finer points of painting and drawing technique. An acknowledged master of painting technique, Howard founded and operated the Artist Forum on CompuServe, with the intention of reviving traditional painting technique. With over 60,000 subscribing artist/members, Artist Forum succeeded past all expectation and became the largest professional art resource in the world. As the Internet evolved, he closed Artist Forum to start the Cennini Forum where he remains to this day, dedicated to informing and aiding serious artists.
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