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Our mission is to help our self-taught artists develop their skills, nurture their talent and provide an opportunity for their art to be recognized and shared.

If you find a piece you like, please call (773) 282-4744 or visit www.austinspecial.org

09/03/2026

The artists creative space is sacred and today is very quiet focus and busy.
They create without self doubt with great audacity and confidence

Mark Suntres ➡️ Mark’s latest pieces once we travel to Australia to the Sydney ‘s Opera under a rich vibrant sky the next we are in France discovering romanesque
church. Mark uses often tracing paper techniques along with stencils and shows a delicate sense of colors

Irvin Torres ➡️ Irvin’s bridge created from many different visual sources is impressive and quite frankly totally stunning like most of his artwork not only by the size but also by the quality and the attention to details that transform everything he does in a master piece

Tim Holliman ➡️ That latest portrait is so beautiful I am a fan forever anyway and at that point it doesn’t really matters who it is although it is interesting to know but today not

Peter Kuczwara ➡️ Peter is wearing the perfect t shirt that completes his piece very well dedicated to the Circus
What not to love the tiger the clown in a box with golden wheels the splashes of colors, that happy energy that fills up the page ?

Ruben Tupayachi ➡️ Ruben lady’s in green his wonderfully happy and her eyes and smile dreamy ❤️‍🔥

08/18/2026

Today the class is full of dedicated artists :

- Irvin Torres ➡️ Irvin’s Bridge. Irvin used a lot of different images sources for this one combining visuals and subject such as the train with a striking result
6’73 x 3’42 graphite and markers on Paper

- Vanessa Arce ➡️ Vanessa is back to the art program and is quite happy to be creating pieces and experimenting with color pencils that can be used as watercolors

- Mark Suntres ➡️ Mark subjects are very diverse from architecture to sport to portraiture to nature his interests go all over the place. Here he got inspired by one of Santiago Calatrava building and added a lot of colors one of his signature style

- Ruben Tupayachi ➡️ Ruben keeps on drawing those mischievous ladies each one with distinctive details in their makeup garments jewelry

- Tim Holliman ➡️ Tim’s keeps on creating portraits that are very powerful and his use of colors is wild and bold

-Michael McLemore ➡️ Michael creates color puzzles and sometimes draws shapes that are strong and impactful

- Peter Kuczwara ➡️ Peter’s artwork is lately very focused on the circus world and one can find recurrent caracteres such as clown tiger elephant golden crown and flying cat ?

- Earl Gallermo ➡️ Earl is more interested in building pages of words carefully traced at 1st in graphite pencil then with ball point pen

07/16/2026

Busy times with the artists who are very productive and never ceased to impress me with their drive and focus while creating their pieces

- Mark Suntres ➡️ Mark went from a very colorful church with a grey sky filled with stars and angels to lively outdoor scenes where he used stencils for the adorable birds and butterflies he is unstoppable and his subjects very diverse

- Irvin Torres ➡️ Irvin tackled a new subject the Solar System a very intricate piece with a lot of elements that are fascinating such as his “computer system” unit. One of the book he used is “Science & Technology” for visual resources and the Earth is blue for some mysterious reason

- Tim Holliman ➡️ Tim is going through the magazine he bought himself “MB News” dating from Spring 1987. The publication is all black and white so it his totally his choice of colors for each of those latest portraits

- Michael McLemore ➡️ Machael was into American flag as it was Independence Day when he created that piece

- Ruben Tupayachi ➡️ Ruben as always is delighting us with his precious women with fancy garments long earrings few of them wearing heavy makeup and oh surprise 2 boys made it too !

- Peter Kuczwara ➡️ Peter working and at time overworking his latest piece where one can identify the red tiger or perhaps a rabbit with piercing eyes not quite sure but the sun is shining high in the sky

-Earl Gallermo ➡️ Earl tirelessly create pieces from words where he uses 4 different combinations of letters for each it is mind boggling

05/27/2026

The opening of Art on the Edge went very well.
The artists were happy to see their artwork beautifully displayed.
Sales happened and the show is up until July 4th so there is still time to buy fabulous artwork …
6311 Art Gallery is located at 6311 N Clark Street
Opens from Wednesday to Saturday 11:00 am - 6:00 pm (11:00 am - 5:00 pm on Sunday)

05/17/2026

Amazing show till July 4th
The 5 artists featured attended the opening yesterday and were so proud as they should and happy to see their artworks displayed

Sales happened and more available for sale till July 4th…

IG accounts:

Kuczwara “PK” (no IG yet)

05/01/2026

A quick visit to the Art Program where the artists excel and create impressive art work. Each one of them 🥇🌟🔥

- Ruben Tupayachi ➡️ creating a series of his exquisite ladies with hats + lovely eyes and rainbow in the background on a charcoal black paper 18” x 12” 🔥🥇

- Irvin Torres ➡️ Starting a new project a castle with canons and turrets like he saw in Puerto Rico he told me 3’42” x 5’67”🔥 🥇🇵🇷

- Tim Holliman ➡️ Tim bought himself this magazine MB News at a bookstore and he is picking his subjects carefully. He started with Bob Hope and now works on Dick Cavett’s portrait. Always a treat to see him create with such confidence and so much raw talent🔥🥇

- Earl Gallermo ➡️ with an incredible precision and patience filling up pages recto/verso beautifully with words and letters over and over and those wonderful leaves with amazing details Earl is getting his skills back slowly but surely 🔥🥇🌿(Earl had an open heart surgery during COVID)

04/08/2026

A Little tour of Austin Special artists art work

Today is Earl Birthday Happy Birthday Earl 🎂🎉🎊❤️

- Earl Gallermo ➡️ lately working on letters he definitely has a special style I’ll call it Earl ‘s typo font and it is quite sophisticated 🔥🌟

- Irvin Torres ➡️ Once more Irvin is stunning me with his extraordinary skills as a draftsman/artist who creates with nothing but his imagination/memory/vision of the world
Here I saw the bridge come to life when I was doubtful of its accuracy it really is perfect in its perspective and details.
The sky shifts from light to dark during a flight primary based on the local time of the region it flies over and Irvin is showing that so clearl
I Love the addition of the passengers and the pilot 🧑‍✈️
This guy is ✈️🔥🔥🔥🔥🌟

- Michael McLemore➡️ tirelessly building those delicate colors puzzles and sometimes including seasonal elements such as clover or Easter eggs Easter eggs 🐣 ☘️🔥🌟

- Tim Holliman ➡️ creating a brilliant series of Reverend Jesse Jackson from an issue of the Chicago Suntimes 🔥🔥🔥 🌟

- Ruben Tupayachi➡️ drawing an other pretty lady with red lips a purple outfit to match her beautiful eyes 💁🏻‍♀️👄 👀🔥

- Peter Kuczwara ➡️ I don’t remember him drawing a plane before so that is a first and it is wonderful as well as those 2 red mysterious creatures 🔥🔥🔥🌟

Address

5414 W Diversey Avenue
Chicago, IL
60639

Telephone

+17732824744

Website

http://austinspecial.org/

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