Rick Bartholomew

Rick is a former professor and practitioner of interior design and now creates architectural and interior hand-drawn illustrations in pen and ink, and color.  He works with designers, architects, builders, real estate brokers, and individual clients producing built environment concepts and home portraits, and has a series of acrylic paintings of both realistic and abstract subject matter.    

His collection of art pieces include pen and ink drawings of various downtown Tulsa buildings and historic homes with complementary sets of note cards and various print sizes.  In addition to this collection, artwork includes illustrations of architectural styles from around the United States including illustrations in a watercolor wash.    

Rick's educational background consists of a Bachelor of Architecture and Master of Science in Interior design degrees, both from Oklahoma State University.  He was born and raised in Sunbury, Pennsylvania prior to enrolling at OSU after high school graduation.  In addition to a retirement career in illustration art, he is a part-time Adjunct instructor at Tulsa Technology Center on the Lemley-Memorial Drive campus teaching color pencil and architectural illustration classes with the Visual Arts and Graphics program.