Chris Millspaugh Design

04/17/2026

03/24/2026

I painted a little birdie for the annual art auction at the

Red-breasted Nuthatch
Ink and watercolor

Silent auction is live with a ton of great art by local folks. Look at their website to figure out how to get there.

11/18/2025

Color options of a shirt illustration for this years Beers of the Kaw. An annual fundraiser for .

09/24/2025

New season at KU Theatre means a new campaign of illustrations and poster designs that I worked on over the summer with the fun crew over at 

Opening the season this is Silent Sky, based on the “true story of pioneering American astronomer Henrietta Leavitt and her groundbreaking work at the Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s.”

I got a sneak peak at the set design/build and looks amazing so get your tix. Showing Oct. 3, 4, 5.

04/22/2025

I started life drawing sessions again. Been a hot minute since I did regular life drawing and it’s been fun to get back to it. Thursday nights at if interested.

04/18/2025

Poster illustrations for the main productions for this season. Still time to see Pippin (tonight and tomorrow)

04/02/2025

Revisiting an old project from last year and some unused illustration concepts that I did not share in the original post. Book cover illustration for a script of a play for the 70th anniversary of the historic Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.

Unused concepts followed by sketches followed by the final.

03/28/2025

Feature story design/layout and photo illustration for KU Alumni Magazine, Issue 4, 2024. A writer’s recollection of Truman Capote’s time in Garden City, Kansas while researching for In Cold Blood (and a sidebar about him making a rare public appearance at KU’s Allen Field House.

Favorite pull quote, “he was small and pinkish”

03/12/2025

Another feature story design/layout for KU Alumni Magazine, Issue 4, 2024. 
Writer: Chris Lazzarino, Photo shoot:

03/07/2025

Some unused illustration and book cover designs that were presented for a project.