Gray’s Negro League, Josh Gibson (20×16 inches acrylic on canvas) on  SHOP BAIA ONLINE™  —  Charly Palmer was born in 1960 in Fayette, Alabama and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A successful graphic designer and illustrator with his own design studio and Fortune 500 clientele, Palmer devotes much of his life to pursuing his fine art dreams and is well on his way to establishing himself as a fine artist of note. He remembers being fascinated by illustrations in Ezra Jack Keats’ “The Snowy Day” around the age of five. “I could never get enough of the imagery in the book”, he says, “This planted a seed in my young heart. Keats’ works were magical to me”. He would later realize that what appealed to him most were the random geometric shapes, the simplicity of the layered textures and patterns, along with the mix of bold colors … READ MORE