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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">in fact, it took ten years to figure out!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Funny thing was, it was my love for writing
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early on that encouraged me to develop my talent and pursue a career in art.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Artists who have influenced my work have varied
over the years depending on personal investigations and stylistic changes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some are Richard Diebenkorn, Wayne Thiebaud,
Claude Monet, Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth, Sam Francis, and Rothko among
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I often
find inspiration in nature, random textures, and textile patterns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also find inspiration in things seemingly
unrelated to the task at hand… it could be something like exploring a medium I
don’t usually work with (like clay or wax)… or it could the written word like a
poem or book, or even a personal journey I may be walking through.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ultimately it is all fuel, and makes its way
back to the surface...that is to say, my painting.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->My process begins with written thoughts then to pencil
sketches and to watercolor painting on paper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Typically, I will paint a number of coordinating pieces such as icons,
textures and patterns, then scan them into Photoshop, and use it as a design
tool to put the pieces together in a number of different layouts. In the early concept
stages I also think of what products the artwork might be suited for, which
helps me develop the right amount of coordinating pieces.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The types of markets I illustrate for –
primarily licensed artwork for product (see #11), although I have also done
some portraits on commission, and I enter a biennial art competition that
benefits cancer survivorship.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Are there links where more of your art can be seen?</span></i></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->My work can be seen at <a href="http://www.lynneawashburn.com/">www.lynneawashburn.com</a>, and
lynneawashburn.wordpress.com/<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Other than working as a licensed artist, I teach
a creative, visual art approach to bible study in my newly expanded Studio B (“FaithArt
Studio”). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It employs creative expression
as a means to gain biblical understanding and uses art mediums that all women,
no matter what level, can master.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Other creative interests: I love to write; whether
it be journaling, poetry, lesson plans, or jotting down short story plots (although
have not attempted to write one…yet).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->You can find my designs on assorted Gift and
Home Décor products, Home Lighting, Fabric, Paper plates and napkins, Flags,
Rugs, Greeting Cards, Wall Décor, and Calendars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They typically retail in independent gift
stores, mid-tier chains, and the occasional mass-market channel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would have to say the best
part is the act of creating something new that didn’t exist before I picked up
a brush.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel blessed to be able to
use how God designed me...for provision, expression, and connection with
others.</span></div>
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blog. It has been a whirlwind for the past year with the Two Can Art<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Collection. I’ve created a checklist of
things I want to do for the collection and am crossing them off as I go. There
is a new signature logo for the brand, new photos with Noah, a new
website.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.twocanart.com/">www.twocanart.com</a> and we are in the process
of trademarking the name.</span></div>
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product. Two Can Art images are now on napkins, porcelain tabletop, greeting
cards, wall décor, tumblers, garden flags, needlepoint kits and pillows. There
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had wonderful magnets with our pillow images on them as give aways. The best
part was talking to all of the people and letting them know about the
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I think the best part of all of this is that the collection
is resonating with buyers and their customers and that a good number of our
licensing partners are giving back to the autism community by giving a % of
sales to autism organizations.</span><br />
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<!--EndFragment-->Pattihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063640642299838764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5252752810935440938.post-9604411532091249612014-11-07T18:53:00.000-08:002014-11-07T18:53:30.675-08:00Nidhi Chanani<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Books and art fueled me equally growing up. I couldn't convince my parents to support a major in art so I picked my other love - literature. At UC Santa Cruz, art was impacted so a minor wasn't possible. While I was in Santa Cruz I took art league classes and did lots of crafts. I knew it was basic, though. I began to follow young artists and the desire to grasp concepts beyond the basics grew stronger. I was working full time in the non-profit sector at the point that I decided to take the plunge and attend art school. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I was 27 and surrounded by artists who were 10 years younger than me and 20 times more talented, I debated dropping out every day. What kept me on the path? I wish I could say it was a teacher or mentor, but it was my stubbornness. I wanted to be an artist. I wanted to draw and make people happy. I did end up dropping out, but not because of my feelings of insecurity. I wanted to break free of the prescribed notion of education. I was simply ready to explore my voice. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">That's what I did. It sounds so simple, but it was nerve-wracking and grueling. I worked part time and drew a new illustration every day. Those daily drawings became the basis of my career. </span></div>
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Kurt Halsey. His work was a major influence on me when I was living in Santa Cruz, dreaming of becoming a full-time artist. I remember reading all his interviews and spending hours looking at his work. I thought if he could share cute, sentimental art and "make" it then maybe I could too. </span></span><span class="im"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Can you tell us about the different techniques you do your work in and how they </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><div>
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I primarily draw digitally. I use flash and photoshop. I didn't pick that combo but its what works for me. I loathe illustrator although I have taught myself how to use it for certain commercial jobs. </span></span><span class="im"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><div>
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<span style="color: black;">I know many artists who use the lasso tool in photoshop for their base drawing. I use flash in the same way but I find its more fluid. I developed my photoshop painting, texture and lighting through trial and error as well. Prior to art school, I taught myself photoshop for graphic design. I've never had a formal course on either! I'm sure there are dozens of things I could learn for each to improve, but as my friend says, if it ain't broke, don't fix it! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Before all of that digital stuff, though, I studied drawing. I still do! I draw traditionally as much as I can. Neither a wacom, a copy of photoshop or even the best illustration tutorial can teach you how to draw. You have to study form, shape, flow, weight character.... You have to draw dozens - or rather hundreds - of bad drawings before getting to the good ones. </span></div>
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<span class="im"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My husband. Music. My kitties. My moms. Nature! The ocean. Photography. Light. The world we live in is quite beautiful. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>What is the story behind the themes you illustrate?</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Solo girl is just that, influenced by my relationship with nature or myself. Introspective and hinting at hope, too.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Animals! I love them! I'm a lifelong vegetarian. Growing up my favorite animal was an elephant. I had the chance to visit a friend of mine living in Kenya. I scrimped and saved and went alone. On safari, I fed a giraffe with my own hands and saw basically every animal in the African savannah. I visited an elephant orphanage. I drew animals before, but after that experience I drew many, many more. I want to meet every animal! I am vehemently against zoos and aquariums, though, so my opportunities are limited and that's okay. If I get more chances I welcome them, and if not, my experience in Kenya will fuel me for many years to come. </span></div>
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Your site is titled Everyday Love. How did you come up with this name and what is </b><b>it’s significance?</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="im"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It came from my daily drawings. I started drawing every day about 5 years ago. It's become weekly as I work on the graphic novel, but at the time I completed a full illustration 5 days a week. I drew from my love of animals, my husband and nature. Over the years I've created around 700 complete illustrations. </span></span><div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The scenes are every day scenes cooking, walking, eating ice cream in bed. I believe that in each day there are many moments of love - everyday love. I also love drawing everyday, so it works that way too.</span></div>
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>You have a new graphic novel coming out. How did that come about and where </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><div>
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It will be available in 2016, I believe! Depending on when I get all the artwork done! I wrote and pitched the story back in 2013. I rewrote it many times that year and sold it to First Second (Macmillan) at the end of 2013. I have been working on the thumbnails this year and next year I hope to complete the final art. It will be my first long form story so I'm nervous, excited and... mostly nervous! </span></span><span class="im"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="im"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I love to write. I also love cooking and baking. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><div>
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I love making people happy. When people write or come up to me at conventions and say that my work makes them smile - nothing beats that. It makes me feel like what I do matters and that's the best feeling.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>How long have you been representing
artists? </b> <span style="color: #1f449a;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I know I am going to sound ancient, but
it’s been 35 years! Amazing how time flies when you are doing something
you love! After teaching art in the New York public school system
for 10 years I was looking for a new career path. I loved the children
and teaching but wanted something new and different for the next phase of my
life.<span style="color: #1f449a;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I interviewed with the renowned NY art
group, “Push Pin Studios” headed by Seymour Chwast and Milton Glaser. Two icons
in the advertising and editorial world even back then, realized the importance
of a well qualified agent. Seymour and Milton were not only exceptionally
talented but enjoyed sharing their knowledge with me. I learned the right way
to represent artists and had a ball running around Manhattan showing their
award winning work. I met Neil, the month before I started that job.
I was visiting all my Stanford University buddies up north first. I then
went south to Los Angeles to visit friends there and that is where I met Neil.
Meeting Neil was my high point that summer. We really got to know
each other via many long phone conversations. My trip to LA lasted only a
week as I headed back to New York to begin my new career. I loved my new
job, but Neil’s power of persuasion was too much to resist. I started my
illustration representation business shortly after he moved me out here.
That was the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">birth of </span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Calligraphy';">Rosenthal
Represents. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We are still in contact with our first
group of illustrators from way back in 1979!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Do you primarily represent artists for
licensing? </b> </span><span style="color: #1f449a; font-family: 'Apple Casual';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I represented illustrators for
editorial, advertising, publishing and entertainment (Movie posters) in the
beginning. Neil joined the business soon after to help with servicing the
many customers, Warner Bros. Disney and the ad agencies because it became too
busy for only one rep. We met the new Creative director for Warner Bros,
thanks to Neil’s great talents for researching “up and coming” businesses. That
launched us in 1989 into the licensing business but only for Warner Bros.
I was at Warner Bros. almost every day for a year and a half consulting
with Andrew Baron, the amazingly talented art director Warner Bros hired to
begin their licensing business. He kept our group of 13 artists busy for over
18 months creating images for their growing list of licensees all over the
world. Andrew Baron, was the one who encouraged us to branch out into art
licensing.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We were relatively clueless about licensing art.
Andrew was generous with his time and knowledge in the beginning.
It helped us initially but the real education was by diligent research.
There were no websites to learn from as there was no INTERNET…. can you believe
that? No one would talk to us about it and there was very little to read about
it. I would just have to go to shows and find out myself. Since we
love challenges, we threw ourselves into this new biz
as we realized that our days in illustration were numbered. Computers
were getting popular and the Movie Studios no longer did art on posters. That
business dropped off the planet very quickly. The ad agencies were
suffering and the time was ripe for a new phase of ART and it seemed to be
Licensing.</span></span></div>
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for new types of artists and discovered the biz together. The rules were
different, the process was different and the payments were very, very
different. New and different was a nice change. We all grew
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Licensing in Art Schools and big and or small venues. Although there are many
art schools in the United States and around the world they, for many reasons,
do not include licensing as a formal course to their students. We have
been invited to speak at Utah State and then other invites came along in LA as
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on our team of talent and what they are open to creating for clients.
We go from fabric, textiles for the kitchen and bath, party plates and
Stationery such as: invitations, notebooks, albums, to cocktail napkins, to
jigsaw puzzles, gift bags, flags and more.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></div>
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the floor to the ceiling with the types of things we license. We license art
for floor mats, area rugs, coir welcome mats, wall décor, metal and wood signs,
ornaments, Popcorn tins, music boxes, tabletop, gift bags and boxes, decorative
boxes, crafts, such as paint by number, embroidery, kits, tee shirts,
trays, coasters, top of bed, luggage, calendars, children’s products, baby and
pet products. Inspirational products are important too. Often art is
needed by location, country, coastal, national parks, Lodge, mountains as well
as seasonal art too since many products concentrate on important holidays.
Anything you can imagine that has art on it, we can do!</span></div>
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artist interested in licensing their work?</span></b><span style="color: #1f449a;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is not the business to start
if you have no other income coming in. It’s not a quick earning business.
They will need to consult with a seasoned agent to decide how to begin
creating an archive of art. They will need to create seasonal art, which is a
good place to start. Seasonal designs can be licensed to many categories
at the same time. Photoshop or similar programs are a must. Manufacturers
are literal… they must see the art the way they are going to use it. IF
you do art in groups, they will get a taste of your hand and your styling.<span style="color: #1f449a;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">One design won’t
tell the story and won’t get you in the door. This is not a one trick
pony industry. On the bright side, you can earn money from art you are
doing for years to come. Re-freshing your look is important and paying
attention to trends is essential. An artist will need to be creating new
art every day so their archive will be broadened and widened to include new
markets. With licensing, you are earning an annuity for your art once you
have found your niche .We can help you branch out into new specialties so you won’t
get burnt out and will acquire new revenue streams along the way.<span style="color: #1f449a;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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trending for products?</span></b><span style="color: #1f449a; font-family: 'Apple Casual';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Chalk art has taken hold for the
past couple of years and that retro decorative layered look that came in from
variety of sources including Punch Studio. Fringe and Michel Studio have a very
successful and appealing style. Realism with some new twists never goes out,
but new looks are also important too. Graphic looks have a contemporary
feel is appealing today as well.<span style="color: #1f449a;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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economic times, people like to be reminded of the more innocent days of yore.
Also inspirational art and art with an attitude is hot. Campus art with
typography and famous icons are popular with the high schoolers and the College
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pet products are a huge
industry since billions of families have cats, dogs, birds and other small
pets. People without children have pets as their families and spend a
fortune on items to celebrate their special “four legged family” members.
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">As Neil would say, I was
born to do this business. I have always loved art and doing it myself in
my amateur way. I loved studying and learning all sorts of art techniques
at Queens College in NY and then at Stanford University and then teaching it.
I mentored my special students when I was a teacher and have been doing
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I see it everywhere and enjoy
coaching talented people change their lives by doing what they love!
Encouraging others on how to excell, is a huge part of our business. When
our artists send art to present to our clients, I know which pieces will
need tweaking and which ones will be chosen and why. It’s most important
to help them understand how to improve their designs so that a client will be
thrilled to have the privilege to manufacture and produce them. That is the
ticket! <span style="color: #1f449a;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">With that said I found this show as exciting and interesting as in January. I took time to look at showrooms I hadn't seen before and met some lovely people along the way. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I did find that themes and trends haven't changed much.The chalk look and word images were still strong. There were some lovely garden and animal themes as well. I saw some wonderful art on all kinds of products. There were lots of fun whimsical products for Halloween and Christmas too. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Seeing new friends and old was an added benefit.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Personally the show was especially nice in that some of the Two Can Art images were launched. PPD featured the Winter Solstice collection in the window. One of the cards at Design Design was also in the showroom. I really love meeting the sales forces at the show too. They were all so incredibly kind.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Visiting the showrooms can really give you a good idea of a manufactures look and product selections,so you can get an idea if it's a good fit for your artwork.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I am looking forward to heading south again in </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> January!</span>Pattihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063640642299838764noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5252752810935440938.post-50131914099954735862014-06-04T13:14:00.000-07:002014-06-04T13:14:20.345-07:00Siyana Zaharieva<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Definitely all illustrators, with whose children‘s books I have grown up, have influenced me. There are a lot of such illustrators. However, there are two persons, who showed me in a completely different way that despite the difficulties, one should not give up what one wants to do; that one should be persistent, work hard and believe in one‘s self. These persons are my parents.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am addicted to illustration. The blogs and websites of illustrators that I follow are really a lot. I am constantly discovering artists, who are new to me and who become my favourite. They are also quite a lot. Over the past few days I have been checking with great interest the illustrations of <span class="">Fredéric Pillot, </span>Chun Eun Sil, Eric Puybaret.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am inspired by stories for children, by the good writers, children‘s imagination, nature... by the world that surroudns me.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I draw entirely by hand. First I give myself enough time to explore and ponder on what I will do. Then many pencil drawings follow while I create the character or characters that I draw. It is important to have drawings from different points of view in at least several situations before I proceed.If I do a book, after the development of the characters, I make small sketches (storyboard) of the various illustrations. Then I start developing them in detail in the real format. Finally I do them in colour. I paint with acrylic paints on paper. Incidentally it has been the case that I have had to paint in Adobe Photoshop, but this is in extraordinary situations, when the deadline is too tight and this is the only way for me to fit in it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have always found working with children to be extremely interesting, but I am still doing my first steps as an illustrator and perhaps in the future I could try also in this area. Next month I'm about to be one of the presenters at a children's workshop "DO YOURSELF A BOOK" and I am very excited.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">In my free time I like read</span>ing,<span lang="EN-US"> travel</span>ling<span lang="EN-US"> and </span>cycling<span lang="EN-US">. </span>I have never done music and <span lang="EN-US">I think I </span>am not talented in this field<span lang="EN-US">. </span>As for writing, one never knows<span lang="EN-US">. </span>I am <span lang="EN-US">considering such a book </span>- <span lang="EN-US">written and illustrated by me, but </span>I‘m <span lang="EN-US">still gather</span>ing<span lang="EN-US"> courage.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yes, but for now they are only on the Bulgarian market. There are books with my illustrations. They can also be seen on the cupakes from„Take a cake“ (<a href="http://en.take-a-cake.eu/cupcake-art/poznaj-prikazkata.html">http://en.take-a-cake.eu/cupcake-art/poznaj-prikazkata.html</a>), the promotional mugs of Jacobs Monarch and on the cover of the latest issue of the culinary magazine "Bacchus. "</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 17px;">I love everything, the </span><span style="line-height: 17px;">entire</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 17px;"> process. Yet</span><span style="line-height: 17px;">,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 17px;"> perhaps </span><span style="line-height: 17px;">I love it </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 17px;">the most when</span><span style="line-height: 17px;">,following</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 17px;"> numerous pencil drawings</span><span style="line-height: 17px;">,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 17px;"> I</span><span style="line-height: 17px;">determine on</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 17px;"> the characters and composition, and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5252752810935440938" name="_GoBack"></a>move on to work with colors. This has always been </span><span style="line-height: 17px;">the</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 17px;"> sweet</span><span style="line-height: 17px;">est for me.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I've always drawn and painted, and that's always been my favorite thing to do. I loved it whenever my Dad would bring a batch of laundry home from the dry cleaner, because I had permanent dibs on all of that shirt cardboard. It was white on one side and brown on the other. Two drawing surfaces for the price of one! I took all of the art classes that I could all through school, volunteered to paint sets during class plays, and figured out ways to illustrate book reports and any assignments that I could. Going to art school and becoming a professional artist was the only thing I ever considered doing.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yes, I went to the Paier School of Art in Hamden, CT. I had wonderful teachers and classmates, and was given a great foundation to build on. Attending school there was one of the best times of my life, I can feel it's influence every day.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">My Dad was a successful businessman in New York City. In spite of always being very supportive and encouraging, I was nervous about telling him that I wanted to go to art school. When I finally got up the nerve I was incredibly relieved when he said he thought it was a great idea. He told me that he had always hated his job, and he never wanted me to be in that position. I was also lucky to have several great teachers in elementary and high school who noticed my abilities and encouraged me.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tons! Early influences were artists like Tony Ross, Babette Cole, and especially Tomi Ungerer. I love their line, color, and especially their senses of humor and anarchy. When I was younger I enjoyed illustrators like B. Kliban, Edward Gorey, Rick Meyerowitz, and Gahan Wilson. Scratch that younger part, I still love them. Other favorite illustrators include Wilson McLean, Brad Holland, Alan Cober, William Joyce, Trina Schart Hyman, Friso Henstra… this list could go on forever and I'd still forget someone.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Books, movies, other artists, conversations with friends and family, dreams, images that stick in my head, color combinations, travel… life! Last November I was driving down to Florida with my son Marc. We saw a big flatbed truck that had gone off the side of the road and big white boxes scattered all around it. Then we noticed that the people cleaning up the boxes were all wearing full body beekeeper's outfits, and there was a huge cloud of bees over the whole thing! By the time we had passed it was too late to go back or snap any photos, but I clicked a brain picture for future reference. Later on I made a quick image, and some day it might be refined and turn into something.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's pretty intuitive. If an illustration that requires specific reference material I'll gather as much of it as I can so that I really feel like I know what I'm drawing. I try to look at things and absorb what they are, then put the reference aside and draw from memory. Otherwise the drawings become too dear and I lose that kind of spontaneous energy. It doesn't always work, but observing and recalling is like a muscle that needs to be exercised. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I generally draw the characters and environment as separate elements in my sketchbook, then scan them and compose the image using layers in Photoshop. I paint digitally, but still like to do all of the drawing with ink and paper. If an area or element isn't working, I can redraw, scan, and adjust it. Once I have everything the way I want, I usually print it out, then take it to my light box and redraw the entire image all at once. That way the line is consistent, and I can make small adjustments as I go. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">My website is <a href="http://www.pgirouard.com/">www.pgirouard.com</a>. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last September decided to paint one new Facebook profile picture every day for a year. I'm a little more than halfway done right now. Here's a video featuring some of them - <a href="http://vimeo.com/92870783">http://vimeo.com/92870783</a>, and you can follow my daily progress here - <a href="http://www.facebook.com/profilepictureproject">www.facebook.com/profilepictureproject</a></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm a member of Picture Book Artists Association - <a href="http://www.picturebookartists.org/">http://www.picturebookartists.org</a></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Primarily the children's market, picture books, magazines, and educational work. But I've also done lots of greeting cards, posters, t-shirts, toys, games, puzzles, work for institutional clients, advertising, newspapers, and the occasional odd project, like streetlight banners or the outside of an entire city bus for a radio station in Hartford, CT. I'd love the chance to illustrate a label for a wine or beer bottle, and still haven't given up hope for an album cover.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I've taught classes at a variety of places over the years. Most recently a rotating series of classes for families at local libraries in the county where I live, and after school programs at two local elementary schools. I also do visits at schools and libraries around the country, but those are more lectures than classes.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I've written several picture books but haven't done anything with them yet. I really need to close my eyes and take the leap. I enjoy making stained glass windows and mosaics, and our house is a never ending project.</span></div>
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Pattihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063640642299838764noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5252752810935440938.post-28877598794638072952014-05-05T08:49:00.000-07:002014-05-05T08:49:53.985-07:00Andi Butler<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">How did you become an artist? </span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Everyone starts out as a creative risk taker. Babies and toddlers all start out with crayons and pencils, observing, imitating, grasping, drawing, coloring and creating, and eventually displaying our work in the 'Fridge Gallery.' Some kids stop when they hit grade school or maybe middle school, but I didn't. I was a huge fan of our local kids' programming (I grew up near Detroit, MI) and two of my favorites were Count Scary and Sir Graves Ghastly (they'd show a monster or b-movie, and have weird skits after commercials). They always had a 'ghoullery' of kids' art and being very driven, I would beg my mom to send them my stuff. Sometimes it would make it to their wall. That set me on a course to being a maker... I grew up in the seventies and eighties, so it wasn't called that then, but that's what I was. I learned to sew when I was nine, so I was doing what Molly Ringwald's character in Pretty in Pink was doing, waaaay before she was doing it...Coincidentally, her character's name was Andie, which I still think is funny...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I went to college. I took art classes, but at the time, there were no degrees for what I wanted to do, which was a bit of everything, but not boring things. So I took creative classes at the local community colleges and just continued learning what I wanted. I'd just had just over a decade of learning what the public school wanted to teach me, now it was my turn to pick. I took photography, figure illustration, color, perspective, fashion merchandising, marketing, advertising, etc. I had a lot of fun with it! I still take classes online, because I'm a lifelong learner, but I would recommend to younger people: go to college and get the degree, not art school necessarily, but something so you can have an income to keep making...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Yes, my parents. Both of my parents are from England and grew up post WW2. My dad was pretty traditional when I was a kid, and regarding a career, he just didn't think a person could make money from drawings. This is ironic because he worked for Ford, and had to build from someone's design. The more he expressed that I needed a 'real' career (that was very non-traditional, both my parents wanted me to be independent financially) the more driven I became to show him I could create, and have a stable career. My mom was very much a maker, she made everything. At a young age she'd see something and then copy it because she couldn't afford to just buy it. I learned that from her, how to make my mark. </span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Is there one or more artists that influenced your art?</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I love, love, love Naiad and Walter Einsel. Their work pushed me very early. My mom hated to cook but for some reason had a lot of cookbooks. I don't know if it was because she wanted people to think she liked cooking, or, was hoping that she would find something she'd want to cook. We didn't have a lot of money and I loved to read and those were what were around the house. The Einsels had a lot of illustrations in cookbooks, recipe cards and 'homemaker' magazines (my mom also bought a lot of those, and still did not cook from them) and I loved looking at just all the detail and bits and pieces. They were just really fun! Charley Harper was also huge for me. I wish I'd saved all my dad's Ford Magazines, as Harper did a ton of illustrations for them! He created a lot of insects and animals, and I wanted to be an entomologist because of his drawings. I also loved Jim Flora. My parents didn't listen to jazz, but when we'd go to the record store, I always looked at those albums, sometimes there would be old ones still in print with his art. I also love the Provensens, Mary Blair, Good stuff! Contemporary artists I look to include Angie Lewis, Shaun Tan, Oliver Jeffers, Chris Reccardi, Isabelle Arsenault and Alison Jay.</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What inspires you?</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Living things, anything that's moving or growing. Humor, sadness, anger, if you think of a color when you think of a word, you can draw it... I also like to see what the youngsters are up to. They are so great with taking risks and ignoring someone who tells them they "shouldn't draw like that." My sons are the most inspiring. Our younger son has high functioning autism, our older son is nearly a genius. They take care of each other and solve conflicts and are funny and they're just brothers. I look at the adversity that they rise above, who couldn't be inspired by that? </span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Would you like to share your process?</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My process is very similar to other creatives: I'll get outside or read or bake something (in other words, do something not related to art, sometimes if I try to hard for an idea, I hit a wall), and the images come. I'll brain map a bit and do some word association with drawings. I'll expand on some of those, and flesh out the roughs in Adobe Illustrator. Some things get finished and some don't. The ones that don't, get filed away and I'll bring them out again when I need to doodle or work out more images.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Are there links where more of your work can be seen?</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I post my work on my website (<a href="http://andibutler.com/">andibutler.com</a>) and on my Instagram and Twitter feeds, and also Dribbble. I use 'andibutler' as the handle for all of them. I also have a Facebook public page. All links branch off from my website : )</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What types of markets do you create art for?</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> I've created for toy companies, publishers, social expressions, apparel companies and even software icons! If you focus on making work that you like, and getting yourself out there, there are applications for your work you may not even be familiar with, but the companies will find you.</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Do you do other things regarding art like teaching?</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I volunteer, teaching art once a month at my sons' elementary. I make visual presentations in iMovie, and collaborate with two other design moms, who put together the lessons. </span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Do you peruse other interests?</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I cook and I bake. I love baking. The delicious reason would be because baking means pies and cookies and cake. But I actually really love the process of learning why something does what it does. Baking is all about chemical reactions. I like making the mistakes and realizing why it happened. I also garden and teach our sons how to grow food. There's nothing like something you grow yourself, and anyone can do it. This is where I get to explore my science side without the boring bits...</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Where can your art be seen?</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Is it on products, books, etc.? I've collaborated on a lot of books for Klutz, which is owned by Scholastic. I've created a lot of prints used on apparel for Sears, Kmart, Land's End, sneakers for a dance apparel company, baby gear for Fisher Price (I did a lot of the character development for their Rainforest Baby Gear line, the frog in their logo was from me), even temporary tattoos from Gumtoo!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>What do you love best about what you do?</b> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I really enjoy the diversity of the work that I do. Even if I'm only working on surface design at one point, those patterns could have many different applications: giftwrap, stationery, apparel. Even in apparel, a print I create could be used for an all-over pattern on a dress, with a motif pulled out for an embroidery, appliqué or a screen for a tee. A coordinating print can be made for a pant or short. An entire collection of garments that would hang together can be based on one print. I also enjoy the problem solving. All creative work is really searching for a solution, although the 'problem' isn't negative, it's a question in need of an answer. Some of my favorite ways to work are with a restrictive palette, which often happens with printwork. If you're only allowed 4 spot colors on a print, you have to find new ways to use those colors so the motifs still make sense to the consumer.</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">How did you become an artist?</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Did you go to art school?</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I went to Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston Massachusetts. I could have technically become an illustrator without art college but I probably wouldn't have done so. Art college gave me the guidance and start that I needed to take art seriously. I could have learned most of the lessons from books, videos, google and YouTube but I'm not sure I would have taken the time required to pursue art with the intensity which </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Massart</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> encouraged. Above all M</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">assart</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> taught me traditional mediums and how to take critiques and helped me to begin to find my voice. It wasn't until </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I started</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> full time freelance illustration that I learned to run a business, find clients and do digital art.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Was there anyone that influenced you in becoming an artist?</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I didn't realize there was such a thing as art college until my senior year of high school. I doubt I fully realized you could get paid to be a full time artist. For me the journey truly began with my high school art teacher Larry Golden who not only told me about art college, but actually brought me to a couple of them for portfolio reviews. He helped me build a portfolio and then went one more step to enter my art into a couple of competitions which I got first place in.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> Practically everyday I find a new artists whose art inspires me. I love all kinds of art. The names that keep popping up over and over again in my career are James Gurney, Will Terry, Scott </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Gustafson</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, Brad </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Teare</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, and Scott </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">burdick</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Soo</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> many blogs, books and websites got me to where I am today.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> I'm generally able to find inspiration in every project I do. I'm particularly inspired by the authors who write a story that is fun, engaging, educational or particularly imaginative. It's much easier to create inspired illustrations when the story is written with an inspired hand. I also find inspiration from other artists work as they often give me the drive to get better. Usually just about the time I start to feel like I'm getting pretty good at this art thing, I find another ten artist's who's work is a million times better than mine. It's a life long process and ultimately all of my inspiration comes from God who gave me the talent, the drive and passion to create.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> My work process is constantly evolving so it's hard for me to pin down. It's also different depending on the style of art I'm creating, whether its a landscape, a product illustration, a logo or a children's book. My general process for my more recent children's book work is entirely digital. Everything from the thumbnails sketches, roughs, final drawings, color samples and into the final art is done in </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">photoshop</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. I learned everything from acrylics, watercolors, gouache, oil painting, pastel, to sculpting at </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">massart</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> but I really didn't do much with digital until the past couple of years. I always thought I didn't like digital because the sort I had seen was flat and </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">textureless</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. My journey to the digital world involved the revelation that textures and patterns could be introduced into digital art. So my work process involves collecting various textures via photography of the natural world and patterns that I find or make. These are kept in a folder that I utilize when I need a wood texture, watercolor wash, paint texture, rock texture etc. I then use </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">photoshops</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> "define pattern" and "fill" features to add textures and patterns to specific layers. You can get an overview of my process for creating a final watercolor illustration from a video tutorial I posted to my </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">youtube</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> channel a couple years back. </span></span><a href="https://www/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">https://www</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">youtube</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">.com/watch?v=AI1M_pQr2tg or you can find process posts and tutorials on my blog for my traditional mediums.</span></span><a href="http://matthewgauvin.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">http://</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">matthewgauvin</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">blogspot</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">.</span></span></span><span style="color: #0066cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">com/</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> I haven't done tutorials for my digital art yet.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> I'm currently the illustrator of the month on </span></span><a href="http://childrensillustrators.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">childrensillustrators</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">.com</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. Here's a direct link to my portfolio </span></span><a href="http://www.childrensillustrators.com/illustrator-details/sneezingleopard/id=2864/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">http://www.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">childrensillustrators</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">.com/illustrator-details/</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">sneezingleopard</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">/id=2864/</span></span></a></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> My art is all over the web. The easiest way to find me is to google my full name and a bunch of sites will pop up that show a variety of my art.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Mostly the children's market with magazines, children's books, chapter books etc. Ive also done logos, sign painting, landscapes, portraits, point of purchase displays, banners as a way of keeping the doors open to my business until I'm able to capture the attention of brick and mortar publishers. My dream is to be steadily employed by various children's publishers working with art directors who know what a thumbnail sketch is, or a color sample, and who have a team of people behind them who will bring the book to completion and get it into the hands of thousands of children.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I have lots of ideas for books I would like to write but have never actually penned one to paper. My art extends into designing household items and building them mainly with woodworking .</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> My original landscapes and prints can be seen and purchased from my </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">etsy</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> store </span></span><a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/matthewgauvin?ref=si_shop" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">https://www.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">etsy</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">.com/shop/</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">matthewgauvin</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">?ref=</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">si</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">_</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">shop</span></span></a></div>
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Pattihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063640642299838764noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5252752810935440938.post-36201248005428075322014-04-16T08:30:00.000-07:002014-04-16T08:30:46.572-07:00Christina Wald<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I really got serious about drawing in junior high and high school when I discovered comics. I loved Elfquest by Wendy Pini and also read Star Wars, Red Sonja, Warlord, Cerebus and Dazzler. My mom also picked up tons of old comic at garages sales and my brother and I loved reading them. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yes, I went to University of Cincinnati and got a degree in Industrial Design. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Was there anyone who influenced you in becoming an artist?</b>I loved comics, books and movies. I am still obsessed with them. I also had an extremely supportive family. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Is there one or more artists whose work is an influence?</b><br />Many! Perhaps my favorite artist is Francisco Goya. Other favorites are Jacques Louis David, Pieter Bruegel, NC Wyeth, Arthur Rackham, Howard Pyle, Gustave Dore, Robert McCloskey, Beatrix Potter, Dora Carrington, Norman Rockwell, Joseph Christian Leyendecker, Wendy Pini, Alphonse Mucha, Frank Frazetta, Michael Whelan, the Brothers Hildebrandt, Winsor McCay, David Wiesner, Jerry Pinkney, Moebius, Hergé and many, many others.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Almost everything.<br />I enjoy travel, movies, theater, museums, art exhibitions, books, travel... Getting out and experiencing the world is the most important key to being a good artist and illustrator. Travel and urban/journal sketching are my biggest passions.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">It depends on the project. I do a lot of animal books so the initial part of the process is getting reference. Sometimes I go to zoos and animal rescue places to take photos and take video and often I check out books and research online to get as much as possible on my subjects. For example, I illustrated a book on elk several years ago for the US Forest Service and The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and went to Montana, Yellowstone and Kentucky to photograph elk. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://christinawald.blogspot.com/">http://christinawald.blogspot.com/</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.christinawald.com/">http://www.christinawald.com/</a><br /><a href="http://www.childrensillustrators.com/CSWald"><br />http://www.childrensillustrators.com/CSWald</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.theispot.com/artist/cwald">http://www.theispot.com/artist/cwald</a><br /><br />Web Comic: <a href="http://popsmoothie.com/">http://popsmoothie.com/</a><br /><br />Game Art: <a href="http://christinawaldgames.blogspot.com/">http://christinawaldgames.blogspot.com/</a><br /><br />Tumblrs: <a href="http://christinawald.tumblr.com/">http://christinawald.tumblr.com/</a><br /><br /><a href="http://christinawaldsketches.tumblr.com/">http://christinawaldsketches.tumblr.com/</a><br /><br />I also admin the Cincinnati Illustrators Blog: <a href="http://cincyillustrators.blogspot.com/">http://cincyillustrators.blogspot.com/</a></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">What types of markets do you create art for?</span></b></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Today mostly Children's Books. I also still do industrial design mostly for toy companies and some giftware design<br />When I got started I used to do work for a lot of RPG and CCG companies. I did a lot of art for West End Games for their Start Wars RPG line (around 13 books). In addition, I did work for CCGs based on Lord of the Rings, Dune, Battletech and others. I also did work for Dragon Magazine.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />I have also done artwork for book covers, licensed products, toy packaging... I even have done some animation backgrounds.</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Do you do other things regarding art like teaching?</span></b></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have taught college level illustration at NKU and have been offered the opportunity to do more at other art schools but my schedule is always so crazy. I am pursuing a couple comic book projects including my web comic Pop Smoothie. I am also working to get another really cool comic project collaboration off the ground.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am also an obsessive urban sketcher. I get out to sketch whenever I can. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Do you pursue other creative interests like writing and music? </b><br />I am learning to be a better writer. My biggest interest is to travel as much as possible and sketch. I am going to Romania in September to sketch the Saxon villages in the mountains.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Where can your art be seen? </b><br />My blog has a list of books with links down the left side. There is also a link to toys that are currently available.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b> What do you love best about what you do? </b><br />I love the variety of fascinating subjects I get to illustrate. One day I am illustrating GI Joe packaging for Hasbro and the next I am illustrating life in Pompeii for Scholastic and the next a book about bats. It is never dull.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 19px;">Actually, I have always loved creative art, painting
and drawing from a young age. I remember my happiest times were in art class in
my school days. After graduating from university, I worked as a web designer
for 6 years. I wasn't enjoying it that much. It wasn't what I love to do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So I started as a freelance illustrator last year. I
am really enjoying drawing work, currently. I knew it was really what I wanted
to do and my destiny.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Australia. I was an international student from South Korea. I had found It is
really difficult being an overseas student. But I loved classes and met many
good professors and friends. It was a memorable experience.</span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The other one is the professor I met when I studied at University. I can't
remember his name. Whenever I had a presentation on my project in his class, he
complimented it a lot. He just loved my work. I remember he said, “you have a
born talent for art.” He encouraged me so much. I was so happy that someone acknowledged
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more artists whose work is an influence?</span></span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I have been influenced by so many artists. Moogbee, Nastia Sleptsove,
Emma Block, Soo-Choi, Gyeong Yeon, Ryo Takemasa, Kristina,</span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> etc.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> I can't name
them all. These people are incredibly talented and </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">phenomenal artists</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. I discovered
their work on books, blogs or magazines. When I saw their work, I just loved
it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></o:p></span><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What inspires you?</span></span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I am inspired by
books, music, fabric, nature, color, </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">flower</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, food, </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">looking through other artists blogs, textures and
many other things. Especially, looking at various blogs, </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-field-code: "HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/printpattern\.blogspot\.com\/\0022 \\t \0022_blank\0022";"><span class="yshortcuts">Pinterest</span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-field-code: "HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/www\.designsponge\.com\/\0022 \\t \0022_blank\0022";"><span class="yshortcuts">Etsy</span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-field-code: "HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/www\.thedieline\.com\/\0022 \\t \0022_blank\0022";"><span class="yshortcuts">Spoonflowers</span></span> </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">is great fun and gives me lots of ideas.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I am a great lover of color. Mostly, it's what drives
my work. so whenever I'm working the color is the most important part. </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">normally re</span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">search a lot for my
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Then I work primarily in Photoshop
or </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Illustrator</span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">,
creating many layers in a single file to composite my final image. </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It maybe sound
strange for you, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I draw and sketch a lot in Photoshop. It makes it easier
and quicker to change colors or shapes for me.<span class="apple-style-span"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I've been
working digitally pretty much since I graduated university.</span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 19px;">Yes, I do have a blog . Also you can see my portfolio at Pinterest.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 19px;">I am fairly new to markets.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I am preparing my portfolio focused on </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">covers, books,
editorial</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, pattern, and stationery. But there is no limit to
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I drew all the time when I was a child. I would hand in book
reports that were fully illustrated, and I would write stories and illustrate
them. I was terrible at painting, but loved to draw.</span></div>
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of Fine Arts, The Art Students League and Cooper Union.</span></div>
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drawing a tree across the street from my grandparents’
farm in my sketchbook. My father came up and looked at my drawing and said, “You
should be an illustrator”. From then on, that’s
what I wanted to be.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><o:p> </o:p>I don’t remember looking at any picture
books when I was small, except for one Golden Book, which I still have. But I
had some of the Andrew Lang Fairy Tales books, which had very detailed
Edwardian pen and ink illustrations. I poured over them for hours, looking at
everything. Later, I discovered Beatrix Potter and Arthur Rackham, whose work I
love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then I discovered all those 19<sup>th</sup>
illustrators, Edmund Dulac, Kay Neilsen, Charles Robinson, and the 20<sup>th</sup>
century illustrators, Arthur Szyk, Howard Pyle, and another favorite of mine,
N.C. Wyeth. I could go on and on.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>What inspires you?</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><o:p> </o:p>Being an illustrator, whatever job I get inspires me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Painting for myself, I collect things that
catch my eye. I may pick something up while on a walk and keep it on a shelf
until I have a use for it. I keep files of images that interest me and might
get me thinking of a painting. I am attracted to textures, and love to paint things
that only exist in my mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus,
whenever I can get outside, I like to do little plein aire paintings in oil or
watercolor, usually no bigger than 2 ½” by 3 ½”.
I’m usually out walking my dogs, and I can’t
take a lot of time to paint. I’ve started painting landscapes
of morning and evening twilight, since that’s usually when I get
outside.</span></div>
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what they want, then do the necessary research and find the correct reference
material. Then I do little thumbnail sketches, and from there, pick a few that
seem to work. If I’m doing a book cover, I usually
like to do three sketches, in color, to show the client. When one is picked, I
do a final drawing, and when that is approved, move on to a painting.</span></div>
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<o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">For myself, I get an idea, sketch it down, then in some
cases, don’t work on it for years, and just think about how to do
it. I have folders and folders of ideas, and when I have the time, I go through
them, work some more, and then eventually paint them. An example of that is a
year ago I was doodling while listening to a lecture. I started to draw a woman
with a pumpkin for a hairdo, then a pumpkin for a gown. Sometime later, I went
through pictures of pumpkins and leaves and tendrils and put that into the
folder. More time went by, and while at a farmers market on the way back from
the Outer Banks, I saw an unusual type of pumpkin, and brought it back, and
from there, did a drawing, then a painting.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><o:p> </o:p>I have mostly done all my work for publishing companies. I
spent over twenty years doing book covers, and then I switched to picture
books, but I still do covers as well as other jobs that come in. My steampunk
ABC book comes out on April 15<sup>th</sup>!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><o:p> </o:p>I have taught a few classes and workshops, but since I feel
I am still learning about art, I feel uncomfortable telling other people what
to do.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have gone on school visits but I don’t
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music?</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><o:p> </o:p>I have become an author/illustrator of two picture books, A
Dragon Moves In and my upcoming book, Professor Whiskerton Presents Steampunk
ABC. I sculpt my book characters to have something to paint from and for many
years I was a very avid gardener. I had to give that up as that took too much
time.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><o:p> </o:p>My work is almost entirely on book covers and in picture books.
My original art has been in several shows, one in Bold Hype Gallery in New York
City last year and I am in the upcoming Focus On Nature Show in the New York
State Museum in Albany. I also have shown paintings in the Bucks County Gallery
in New Hope, PA, and well as in Gallery 440 in Park Slope.</span></div>
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other people. I am always amazed when people I don’t
know email me and tell me how much they like my work. It’s
something to paint that’s personal to you and other
people appreciate it.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">How did you become an artist?</span></span></h3>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJWhRjm4FkK1NUcgv8DfytGOsKVZDJ2534ojz_3isq1nt3KH7QchRSmWycsmzf5m1kHtegtOHVSwtk65-V8NbmgEJPHvEkOzfRU9qsM9Qi5iIr10cmISKRU1ppurwGEEuGDgWc0z5WVm4/s1600/Canlandiapg9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">I have always enjoyed doing art or creative
projects from a young age, whether a craft thing or painting, drawing or
sculpture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think that when you have a
little natural aptitude for something, be it art/crafts, maths, or athletics,
you are drawn to doing them (at least at first) because you simply can’t help
enjoying something when you seem to be good at it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s much easier to enjoy something when it initially
clicks for you at the start (the battle to become better starts later) than an
immediate struggle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Art definitely
‘clicked’ for me… whereas maths did not!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Did you go to art school?<o:p></o:p></span></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I did go to art school, but was a late
starter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I looked at further art
education straight after high school, but did not like the direction the only
school in my area would send me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I liked
realism and that was not in vogue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over
ten years later I got a degree in Illustration at Kingston University (UK).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However in between that time I did various
art related part time courses covering painting, drawing and sculpture.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Was there anyone that influenced you in becoming an
artist?<o:p></o:p></span></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">My mother has always painted and encouraged
me to do what I wanted in that direction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Her work is not at all similar to mine, but growing up I could always
use all her art supplies and she has always been very supportive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think without her influence I would not
have considered that a career in art would have been feasible, or at least
highly unlikely.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Is there one or more artists whose work is an influence?<o:p></o:p></span></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I’m a traditionalist / figurative artist at
heart, so the artists work I admire are in that vein are the likes of
Rembrandt, Sargent and Ingres etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
have a big soft spot for the classic American illustrators like JC Leyendecker,
NC Wyeth and Howard Pyle, as well as some of the English romantics like Edmund
Blair Leighton and John William Waterhouse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Growing up we didn’t actually have many picture books, but we did have a
few Lady Bird books and I remember being extremely fond of the images in
Cinderella by Eric Winter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also my
mother had a large collection of the ‘How to Draw’ books by the Walter T.
Foster publishers, which I’m sure influenced my desire for realism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also amassed a vast amount of Archie comics
growing up, which surely has had some affect on me.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">What inspires you?<o:p></o:p></span></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Stories inspire me, which is probably why
I’m an illustrator.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My imagination flows
more readily from a good story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m also
drawn to faces and people and also to colour.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Usually my process starts with getting a
brief outline from the client of what they require, or if it’s personal work I
have to make up a brief of my own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
find it easier when I have a clear direction of where I like to go from the
outset, or I muddle around and get nowhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then I scribble down some rough ideas, that no-one but myself ever
sees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Very scribbly… so it can be really
bad, but it doesn’t matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first
hurdle of getting <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">anything</i> down is
usually the worst, because I procrastinate staring at a blank page.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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so just create a new layer over the scribble and refine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, in the past I’d use a light box and
just put a new piece of paper over the old to do the same thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like looking at an ink blot, you can see all
sorts of things in a scribble, that you may not if you try to get a ‘perfect’
drawing the first time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it was really
complex and I had time, depending on the deadline, I’d try and work out rough
tonal range of the image, then go to colour, blocking in all the colour roughly
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Or I have online portfolios at:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.childrensillustrators.com/illustrator-details/fesansom/id=230/">http://www.childrensillustrators.com/illustrator-details/fesansom/id=230/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">What types of markets do you create art for?</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I mainly work in children’s book publishing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a great taste for fantasy art and I
would like to do more of the teenage and adult market for that genre. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Do you do other things regarding art like teaching?<o:p></o:p></span></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I don’t do any teaching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not sure I’d be very good at it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Currently I feel like there’s so much more I
want to learn that I’d rather study than teach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I like to do other art related things purely for the pleasure of doing
them, like life drawing and photography.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It all adds back in to the knowledge I use for my commercial work, but
the main reason I do them is purely for the pleasure of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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music?<o:p></o:p></span></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I like to sing, but again only do it for my
own pleasure and haven’t joined any groups etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’d very much like to write children’s books, but having tried to do it
on a small scale in University am very sure I’d have to dedicate a large
portion of my time to improving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s in
my ‘love to do… but may never get around to it’ list.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I enjoy very much being a freelance
illustrator and working for all kinds of clients.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is enormous freedom, as well as a touch
of trepidation, in that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also love
that I can see my work start from a scribble to finish product and end up
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">All my life I loved painting and drawing. In elementary school most of the time I sat at the table and drew houses, trees and
animals. Every kid had their own drawer and my mother often came to empty mine because I painted so many pictures. In my free time I continued to paint and at some point I
knew I wanted to become an artist or a writer. Now I am both. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yes, I went to Ruhrakademie. This is an private academy in
Germany. They offer studies in graphic design, film, photography, illustration,
animation and art. In the first two years you study together with fellow
students of other faculties and then, the courses are specialized
but you can also visit other courses that interests you. I studied illustration
for 4 years. Sadakos Kraniche“ a picture book about a girl that got leukemia
was my diploma work.</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Was there anyone that influenced you in becoming an
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Looking at art</span>work in books, in museums, on cd covers or poster artwork confirmed my wish to be an
illustrator. But there was no special person.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">There are so many influences. I loved picture books as a
small child (The Hungry Caterpillar,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Petersson and Findus, Willi Wiberg books). In art school I get in touch
with Hokusai, Amedeo Modigliani, Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt and Horst Janssen
just to name a few. I don't know how they influenced me but I feel they did. My final choice was to become a children's book illustrator probably
because of the work of Wolf Erlbruch (Duck, Death And The Tulip) a well known
German illustrator.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Often I don't know what really inspired me. Suddenly an
idea appears in my mind and I don't know where it came from. But sometimes I
investigate a special topic and something fascinates me like the story of
Sadako Sasaki or old family photographic portraits. I liked the idea of showing a
family and the viewer can interpret the relationship between the members. I also look to nature, books, music, flea markets, walks, my cat, and conversations with people for inspiration. You never know where you will find an idea. The most
important thing is being curious.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">It begins with a sketch or doodle in my Moleskine book (I
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</span>increase the format. I print out the sketch and create a more detailed
drawing. Then everything is transfered to watercolour paper (grain satiné from
Lana). I finish the work with watercolours, pencils and collage elements (made
with acrylics, wax crayons, hand carved stamps and printed paper). Then I scan
it again and add some structures and background colours on the computer. I sometimes correct some details or tonal values.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">-My website (<a href="http://www.judith-loske.de/">www.judith-loske.de</a>)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">- My English portfolio on Behance (<a href="http://www.behance.net/JudithLoske">http://www.behance.net/JudithLoske</a>),
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">- Pinterest (<a href="https://www.pinterest.com/judithloske/">https://www.pinterest.com/judithloske/</a>)
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">- Society6 Shop (<a href="http://society6.com/JudithLoske">http://society6.com/JudithLoske</a>)
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">-Artflakes (<a href="http://www.artflakes.com/de/shop/judith-loske">http://www.artflakes.com/de/shop/judith-loske</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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market. But I have done illustrations for porcelain manufacturers, magazines,
greeting cards, blogs and textbooks, too.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I do readings for schools and kindergarten.</span></div>
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and food. And I like to take photographs (mostly of my cat).</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I did a cup series of kissing animals for Könitz Porzellan.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">- Sadakos Kraniche, minedition 2011</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">also available in English, French and Dutch</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">- Der Koffer, die Katze und die Tuba, minedition 2012</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">also available in English and French</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">- Mein Schatz bist du!, Text: Lucy Scharenberg, Thienemann 2013</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">- Let's Read Japanese Vol.1, various illustrators, Oxford Brookes University
2013</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">- Let's Read Japanese Vol.2, various illustrators, Oxford Brookes University
2013</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">- Das rote Blatt, Hinstorff 2014</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">- Klassiker für Kinder - Alice im Wunderland, cbj 2014 (will be published in
summer 2014) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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telling a story for children and adults. Of course it is wonderful to share
these worlds in a book. I think the feeling of seeing an appealing cover, then opening the book and falling in love with the story is unique. Every child has its
favourite book and maybe it is one of mine.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I think I was born
an artist! For as long as I can remember I have always loved to draw and paint.
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I was fortunate to live in a town where art was not only
appreciated but encouraged. I took art classes at the local Marblehead Arts
Association. Our high school offered an art major course for senior students.
So, I majored in Art in High School and then in College. I also had a neighbor
who was a book illustrator. I loved going to her studio to watch her work. I
think that had a lasting influence on me.</span></div>
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the only publicly funded art school in the country and one of the oldest to
grant an artistic degree. I graduated with a BFA degree with a dual major in Illustration
and Printmaking.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I would have to say my parents were my biggest influence.
They always encouraged my love of art. They took me to museums to see famous art
works all over New England. They paid for my private lessons, camp, art classes
and all my art supplies. My Dad created a studio space for me in our basement
so I could paint and have a place to practice my creative work all through
school. That kind of endless enthusiasm and support goes a long way to
encourage a young person to pursue their dream!</span></div>
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everywhere! I am fortunate to live by the ocean and I like to walk along the beach
collecting shells and rocks. I am seduced by color…bright and happy colors
especially.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I love travelling to new
places and learning about different cultures. I keep a sketch book with me,
especially when I travel, so I have literally filled dozens of books with ideas
and drawings of what I see that interests me as I journey through life. I read
all the shelter magazines, I am an avid shopper, I study the fashion trends, I
am aware of Pop Culture…I keep my eyes open for new ideas where ever I go.</span></div>
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for everything I do. I gather reference material from places I have visited or
concepts I have come up with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I then
sketch up an image I am thinking about, working out the drawing until I feel
it’s where I want it to be. Then I transfer that image to a bristol board paper
and begin the painting process. The finished painting is later scanned at a
high resolution into the computer and sometimes manipulated in PS depending on
my plans. I paint with gouache since it reproduces so well and is so forgiving
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product development and the ability to create unique concepts for manufacturers.
Drawing is key. Being able to think 3-dimensonally is another key. Also being
able to think outside the box! To create something new, something that has
function but is also fun and different from what is already out there has given
me great longevity in this business. I think a couple of good examples of this
are my “Count Down to Halloween” candy corn- shaped calendar, a unique way for
kids to count down to a favorite holiday with little drawers that hold treats.
The second example are my “Bone Heads” ….hand made porcelain beads with glass
crystal eyes and wire hangers to add to back packs or make into jewelry or
decorate <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for Halloween…all displayed in
a bone-shaped porcelain dish with tattoos around the edges. Both these
innovative product concepts are my creations….distinctive, with a singular
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that will license my work. I am always seeking new markets and design for
everything from fabric and buttons, to home décor, kitchen textiles, calendars,
flags, giftware and even have a line of resort wear featuring my designs. I
have licensed my work on dinnerware and ribbons, illustrated children’s
workbooks, a children’s wallpaper book, designed greeting cards, tee shirts,
mugs, all manner of giftware, rugs, fabrics, wall art, Christmas and Halloween
ornaments and décor and so much more. In 25 years licensing my artwork, there
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was building my art licensing business. I love working with kids. I also taught
silk screening in my studio for years. Following years of exhibiting at Surtex
and presenting seminars on art licensing for over 15 years at that show, I
continued by offering art licensing consulting to help new artists understand
the business. Now I am more apt to be found doing crafts and art lessons with
my grandchildren or traveling to some fun place with them. Children are just
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for my family. When my girls where younger I used to sew and make their
clothes. I am an avid gardener and have designed a magnificent perennial garden.
I love fashion and shopping and anything I can do with my hands. The Captain
and I do a great deal of traveling, pursuing my love of the arts and visiting
all the major museums of the world. I keep a journal for each trip and have
several ideas for books that I may pursue at some time.</span></div>
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after years of renting a studio downtown. I love that I can be walking along
the beach and be inspired by something I come across, then go home to my studio
and take that idea to another level. I love the challenge of being able to
create something special and then finding a manufacturing partner to bring that
concept to market. When art licensing all works in a synergistic way, designs
you create can find homes on multiple products creating multiple income
streams. I think that to earn money for something you love to do, is just the
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">With the economy down in the last few years it did seem that manufacturers were happy with turn out this year. One art director told me it "was like old times." I hope that she is right because that can only be good for artists and businesses.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> It was very exciting seeing all of the merchandise. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> There were a great deal of distressed wood items. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I also saw several word related products too. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> (Although that trend may be waning) I did see </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> mostly themes that have been popular for years.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> (butterflies,birds,flowers...) </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was a really great show for me personally. <b>The Two Can Art Collection</b> that I do with my son was launched by Tervis. Two Can Art is a collaborative collection. Noah who is autistic paints all of the textures that I then create images from. It's exciting to me that it is also bringing about autism awareness. <a href="http://www.tervis.com/">www.tervis.com</a>.Tervis is giving 5% of sales to Autism Speaks and Balance4Kids. I could not have asked for a better partnership. The people in the Tervis showroom rock! There will be more products from the <b>Two Can Art Collection</b> in showrooms next year, so I can hardly wait. I'll be putting information out on the Two Can Art Facebook page </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TwoCanArt" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">https://www.facebook.com/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>TwoCanArt</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">and the Pinterest site <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pattijgay/">http://www.pinterest.com/pattijgay/</a>as things come on to the market.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Art is all I ever wanted to do. I drew and doodled my childhood away, quite happily. Although this wasn’t always positive, as my Mum would tell you. One particularly ‘creative’ afternoon as a four year old, I decided that my Mums walls were a bit bare, to cheer the walls up a bit I proceeded to work my way up the stairs, along the corridor and around my Mums bedroom with a rubber stamp and bright blue ink pad!<span><div>
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I left School at 16 to go to Art College. I spent the first 2 years on a multi-disciplinary Art and Design Course, then went on to do another 2 years in Surface Pattern Design. At the tender age of 20 I got my first job in the Design Studio of a large Greeting Card company. I spent 8 happy years doing this before I decided to go Freelance and work from home.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><i>Was there anyone who influenced you in becoming an artist?</i></b>Mr Leyland, my art teacher at school was the person who was my biggest influence in becoming an artist. As a youngster I didn’t know anybody who worked in the art business, I didn’t know what kind of jobs you could get as an artist. My Mum was also very worried and tried to persuade me to become a nurse or policewoman. But I just knew I had to do what I loved. Luckily Mr Leyland managed to persuade my Mum that sending me to Art College would be a good idea.<div class="yiv420788576MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
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<b><i>Is there one or more artists whose work is an influence?</i></b>There are many artists and designers who influence me, but a turning point for me was when I visited the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam on a College trip. Wow! I really had my breath taken away by Van Gogh’s beautiful vibrant colours and depth of paint. So different to the flat, bland photos that you see in all the art books or on prints.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Another experience like this was the Matisse Gallery in Nice, again I fell in love with his bright vibrant colours and rich painterly syle.I could go on all day, but I must also mention Gustav Klimt, love, love, love. Klimt’s patterns and colours and flowing lines and all that gold, Sigh!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am fascinated by patterns, colours and details. Wherever I go I have my sketch book and camera phone. I have files and files of photos of bits of pattern on buildings, ironwork railings, biscuit tins, vintage fabrics, wallpapers absolutely everything! I am a bit like a magpie, something shiny catches my eye and I have to take a photo quick or sketch it!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">When I start on a new piece of work I begin by clearing my desk, making a nice mug of Coffee and a pile of magazines and my scrap books. I have a Christmas Scrap Book and a general scrap book. (I collect bits all year around and stick them in to my scrap book ready for when I am in need of inspiration.) Then when I get a little spark of an idea, I begin to sketch and doodle. I do this until I am really happy with an idea. I then start to paint. In the past I have always painted a whole design, like a piece of art. But companies want your work to be in ‘Layers’ more and more these days, so now I paint up lots of different sections separately, scan them in and then bring the design together in Photoshop.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">You can see more of my work on the Henry Glass website:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Over the years my work has been licensed on many different products such as Jigsaws, Gift boxes, flags and floor mats. But in last year or two I have been concentrating more on fabrics and Greeting cards. The fabric collections keep me busy because I get to design the whole group, I love the process of building a collection. I am very excited because we have plans to manufacture our own greetings cards<span> </span>in 2014. For more information on this join my Facebook page for updates.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Another creative interest that I do have is felting and sewing. Not sewing in the traditional sense, but drawing with my embroidery sewing macine. I have done quite a few commissions of pictures of peoples houses using this method. I hoard lots of bits of fabrics and buttons and kind of patchwork them all together to make a picture and sew it all together.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">The felting was a hobby that I got interested in when my 3 boys were little. I had a career break to be with them but the creative bug was bursting to get out, so I found that I could create all kinds of things like handbags, teacosies, and flowers out of wool whilst still looking after the boys, as they got a bit bigger they would help out, they loved the process of rolling up their sleeves and getting all messy with soap, rubbing the wool to felt it. Once the boys all started school I got back in to my studio and started to paint again, I can’t do this with distractions, it has to be just me and my radio.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><i>Where can your art be seen?</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">My art can mainly be found on patchwork fabrics for Henry Glass, greetings cards for Pictura and CCA Occasions, Jigsaws for Ravensburger. I have also a Garden Flag that has just been licensed out for summer 2014 which I am very excited about, I used to do a lot of flags before I had my career break so it’s great to be back in the flag market. In England we don’t have anything like this, so I can’t wait to be the first to have one in my Garden.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">For me, the best part of my job is when I am working on something, and I really like it, and it’s going really well. You kind of find yourself in this ‘Happy Place’. It is very difficult to draw yourself away when it’s like this. When you do have to leave it, you can’t wait to get back to it. It’s a happy, warm, fuzzy place to be.</span><br />
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Pattihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063640642299838764noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5252752810935440938.post-56478746434816469042013-12-05T08:10:00.000-08:002013-12-05T08:10:07.276-08:00Hazel Mitchell<br />
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1385780564814_4475"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I DID go to art school. I promised my art teacher (my main influence) I would, and went to art foundation course in York, England. But it didn't go well. I guess my heart was with the horses at that time. I loved being outdoors and with animals. I found it hard to spend all day in a studio. Sure, I loved creating, but I didn't see how I could make a career of it. After foundation course I started a BA in, of all things, glass blowing and ceramics. Given that I am not good at 3d work it wasn't the best place to be. I feel I was let down by art school. No one told me I could change courses .. no one recognized the illustrative style I worked in (after I left school that is), and I had no idea how one become an illustrator. It was fine art or the high road (or graphics). So I dropped out, joined the Royal Navy and actually became a graphic artist! See I told you I went off on tangents.</span></span><br />
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1385780564814_4478"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">When I was at art school I loved all things Victorian, pre-raphealite, impressionistic, fauvist. As for illustration (and especially children's illustration), it's not until the last five years that I've really begun to educate myself. My love of all things victorian, or post-victorian, is deep. Arthur Rackham, E H Shepherd, Edward Ardizzone, Pauline Baynes, Edward Lear, Kate Greenaway. And later Quentin Blake, Ronald Searle, Edward Gorey, Raymond Briggs, Emily Gravett, David Small, Matt Phelan. My roots are mostly in the old country, as you can see. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am inspired very much by the great work of other illustrators and artists - by hard-working friends- by the countryside and by animals, by music and stories and great writing and cinema. Oh and by getting out and about with my camera. So many things!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I work by hand and digitally. Most of my illustrative work is hand drawn and then scanned in. I also paint the backgrounds to some of my illustrations in watercolour and then scan and colour in photoshop. I have been known to use collage and I love dipping pen. In my work I am using several techniques all at once. You see, I have a very low boredom threshold!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Right now I'm working mainly in children's illustration for trade books and educational books. But I would like to do some editorial work and maybe get back to some fine art too.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I used to teach summer school art to children and adults, but haven't taught for a while. Not ruling it out in future though! It's good to get inspiration from students.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm writing ... children's picture books and middle grade novels. So maybe you will see 'author' next to my name at some point. I do hope so! I play the tin whistle (a bit), love to sing and have a clarinet in a box I keep threatening to learn. And as I said before, I love to take photographs.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I love the variety of my work. You never know what the next day will bring. I love that I can organize my own time and work when I want to, and sometimes, where I want to. I love bringing pleasure to children with my work.</span><br />
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1383089607021_2371" style="color: #101010;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1383089607021_2370"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1383089607021_2369" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1383089607021_2395">After graduating with a BFA, I looked for a job using at least <i>something</i> of what I studied, and was hired by publishing company. I eventually became an Art Director, and then a Creative Director there. I worked with many artists and illustrators over the years. I loved working with the artists, getting to know them, learning about their backgrounds, and seeing the amazing work they did. I began to make my own art again, knowing that really that was wanted I wanted (and needed) to do.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #101010;">Yes. </span><span style="color: #101010;">I studied fine art at </span><a href="http://www.cmu.edu/index.shtml" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2862c5; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1383089615_0">Carnegie Mellon University</span></a> <span style="color: #101010;">in Pittsburgh. </span><span style="color: #101010;">My major was "2-D art" (rather than a more specific concentration in painting or print making or sculpture, for example). I had taken <i>one</i> more </span><span style="color: #101010;">class</span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1383089607021_2415" style="color: #101010;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1383089607021_2414"> in 2D forms than 3D, and the 2D forms were evenly split between painting, print making, and photography (which I studied </span>intensively during a semester abroad in Santiago, Chili.).</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #101010;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have been influenced by so many artists! <a href="http://www.denadesigns.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2862c5; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1383089615_1">Dena</span></a> (of Dena Designs), <a href="http://www.amybutlerdesign.com/mainmenu.php" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2862c5; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1383089615_2">Amy Butler</span></a>, <a href="http://www.katespain.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2862c5; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1383089615_3">Kate Spain</span></a>, <a href="http://www.annagriffin.com/content/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2862c5; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1383089615_4">Anna Griffin</span></a>–I can't name them all. These women are incredibly talented and really savvy. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #101010;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I met Kate Spain the first year she exhibited Surtex (when I was a Creative Director), and I left with the feeling that she was living my dream! It still took me several years to begin making my own art again, but meeting her and seeing her fantastic work was a catalyst for me to delve back into making art.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Other artists are always inspiring. For me, going to museums and looking at old, classic artwork or textiles moves me to want to try things. Looking at various blogs, <a href="http://printpattern.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2862c5; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1383089615_5">Print & Pattern</span></a>, <a href="http://www.designsponge.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2862c5; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1383089615_6">Design Sponge</span></a>, <a href="http://www.thedieline.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2862c5; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1383089615_7">the Die Line</span></a>, is also fun and gets my mind racing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #101010;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I draw and sketch a lot. I digitize the drawings after that, but working digitally is more force of habit than desire. I really want and need to be painting more!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #101010;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have done most of my work in fabric, home decor, and gift related markets, but there is no limit to what I'd like to do!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #101010;">Here are some images of my upcoming fabric collection, Clementine, due to ship in February (see attached). Please also visit my website, and follow me on Facebook! I don't blog as much as I'd like, but I do post whenever new items are released: </span><span style="color: #101010;"><a href="http://anadavisdesign.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2862c5; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1383089615_8">http://anadavisdesign.com</span></a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #101010;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I would love to write (both my father and sister are writers and poets), but I am so occupied with making art, I instead satisfy that desire by reading every night.</span></span></div>
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Pattihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063640642299838764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5252752810935440938.post-55527777339347912522013-11-15T08:34:00.000-08:002013-11-15T08:34:17.342-08:00Dennis Kendrick and Andrea Brooks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Andrea</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">: I always wanted to be an artist, a dancer and a doctor. Well guess which won out in the end. I have always been an artist, class artist in grade school; Illustrator club in Jr. H. S.; art major in Music and art H.S. Majored in science in College, then after school took courses at NY art schools.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Dennis</b>: I guess I was also class artist. I attended Paier school of art in CT and then started working in an agency and also freelancing in design. My big adventure was coming to NY from suburban CT and starting to break into the art market.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Persistance is one of the most important qualities.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Andrea</b>: Influences. Let me see. My cousin Jules Kirschenbaum was a painter with works at moma and I just wanted to be an artist like him.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Dennis</b>: Some of the cartoonists of the 60's and 70's.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I began as a cartoonist and children's book illustrator.</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">That's how Andrea and I met through children's books. So maybe love, fame and millions await you in art.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Andrea:</b> Beatrix Potter, Japanese art; impressionism and watercolor of all kinds.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Andrea</b>: I do far too much research on a project, but that's the way I am. I want to make sure I know as much about my subject as possible. I love the watercolor stage best and work on arches 140 cold press paper and use chinese bamboo brushes. When I have finished painting I go in to show Dennis.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Dennis</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">: Then we work on the design together. I'm at the computer. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Background, layout, special effects, design and type are where I come in. We end up with a design that represents both of us.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Andrea and Dennis</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">: We work mainly in the gift and decorative accessories markets.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This includes products such as: Paper tableware: greeting cards; coasters, trays and trivets: flags and mats: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">area rugs: ceramic mugs and dishes; calendars among many others.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i>Do you do other things regarding art like teaching?</i></b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Andrea and Dennis</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">: At the moment neither of us are teaching. We have taught art students at Pratt Manhattan;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Parsons (watercolor classes); Business classes for the Graphic Artist Guild: and we have done guest speaking.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Andrea</b>: I love cartooning and have been keeping sketch books for years. I love doing the writing for my blog.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We are both music lovers. We don't play an instrument at present. Dennis passionately loves history and baseball.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> We are both animal lovers and have three wonderful cats.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i>Where can your art be seen?</i></b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our art can be seen on many products. I am working on a section of my blog called licensed products. I still have a lot to fill in, but what is there should give you a good idea.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Dennis:</b> I've done a lot of children's books and currently have a number of kids e books on line.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Andrea</b>: watercoloring watercoloring watercoloring.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Dennis</b>: I love my computer and all that it affords me especially in design.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Andrea and Dennis</b>: Most of the time we enjoy working together. It's not all smooth, but we ride it out.</span><br />
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Pattihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063640642299838764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5252752810935440938.post-67352096469272909152013-11-06T12:07:00.000-08:002013-11-06T12:07:26.001-08:00Martha Collins<br />
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1383279684950_2079" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">By default! I was raised in a family where intellect was valued above all else. My sisters and brother excelled in academia and I did not. Lucky for me I signed up for a Commercial Art class my first year in college and found I was really good at it. I took a two year program that was extremely challenging. I loved the work, I learned that I was tenacious, talented and smart. So I became an artist. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I work in many mediums because I get bored easily. I love watercolor and painting in gauche but love painting digitally as well. I also love line and wash which I do both in and out of the computer. I try to keep myself a little out of my comfort level so I can take risks. My best work is almost always when I paint or draw by the seat of my pants. My watercolor style has gotten increasingly looser over time because I don't like to plan or sketch much before jumping into the painting. I work in Painter 12 because it's fast, forgiving and flexible. My aim is to not make it look digital and many of my clients are very surprised when I tell them the art they are licensing is digitally painted.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">All over the place, thank heavens: > ) Pier One, Cost Plus, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1383279691_5">Tuesday Morning</span>, Target, Bed Bath & Beyond, Lowes & Sears. Online sites like Joss & Main & catalogs including Signals, Expressions & Wayfair.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1383279684950_2100">Oh…..let me think….The everyday challenge of staying in business? I'm KIDDING! Seriously, I know how lucky I am to make a living doing the work that I love. I really just love drawing & painting & teaching. I love the freedom to work the hours (long) I do which gives me flexibility. Flexibility = freedom and challenge and requires dedication and focus. Flexibility allows me time to spend with my family and friends </span>& that's what makes life worth living for me. <span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1383279684950_2098"> And finally, I get to work with my sister, Betsy, who goes with me to the Atlanta and Surtex shows. All my clients like her better than they like me: > ) </span></span><br />
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be an illustrator? </i></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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artist, although I haven't always called myself one. Two years ago, out
of frustration from not having enough space for my studio work, I took a
graphic design class at a local art school. I quickly became obsessed
with making patterns, and worked on them every night until I started getting
work as a freelance surface pattern designer. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-size: 18pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I went to Middle TN State
University & majored in fine arts with an emphasis in Painting &
Printmaking. At the time, I never took a graphic design course because I
was too stubborn to admit I may need it. I have been playing catch up for
the past two years, when I finally decided to take one of those classes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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individuals that were an influence in your becoming an illustrator? </i></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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parents are both artistic (and my mom is a retired art teacher), and many of
their friends are artists. Having that supportive community was a huge
influence on me. Seeing people make their life about their art made a big
impression on me. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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to fabric stores, hiking, looking through photo albums, flower gardens, and by
old illustrations, among many other things. I recently found my
grandfather's childhood sketchbook and it was like finding gold. When I
teach art to kids, I love that their work is so spontaneous and doesn't take
itself too seriously. I try to keep this tucked into my art as well.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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would like to share regarding your technique or style of work? </i></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-size: 18pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I am at heart a lover of
color....it's what drives my work. So whatever I'm working in, whether
paint or digital, the color is what does it for me. I normally take doodles
from my sketchbook and then scan them in, and rework things in Illustrator.
I love the combination of hand and digital. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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you do illustration for? </i></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-size: 18pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I design mostly for paper,
juvenile, and home products. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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images you would like to share? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-size: 18pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> My site is: <a href="http://www.rachelgreshamdesign.com/"><span style="color: #1d48c1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.rachelgreshamdesign.com</span></a>
and my FB page is: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rachel-Gresham-Design/287881991261939"><span style="color: #1d48c1;">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rachel-Gresham-Design/287881991261939</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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regarding art like teaching, or Classroom visits? </i></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #353535; font-size: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I was an art teacher for
several years and still teach some summer classes, which is super fun! My
favorite age to teach is Elementary.</span></span></div>
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product with your images on the market? books, gift or home products? </span></i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: #353535; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #353535; font-size: 24px;">I have photography
backdrops with my juvenile patterns, as well as iPad and Kindle cases. My
scrapbook collection "Very Merry" is coming out this month through
the new company Hazel & Ruby. I am currently working on projects for
baby textiles and bolt fabric, which will all be out in 2014. All very
exciting to me!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-size: 18pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I am able to create, which
is just the very best there is. I am also very grateful to have such
flexibility, which allows me to be home with my son a lot. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">How did you become an artist?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I’m sure if you asked any creative person, the moment we
became ‘artists’ was probably the day when we first started school and having
the opportunity to express ourselves. As long as I can remember, I have always
loved to draw and create – it felt very natural and made me happy. I have been
incredibly blessed to have wonderful parents who supported my creativity,
especially my Mum. I remember going to art classes during school holidays; we
did macramé one day then ceramics then candle making…it was great! No iPad back
then. My Mum even helped me screen print fabric for my final year school
project at a textile workshop.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Did you go to art school?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I studied textile design at Royal Melbourne Institute of
Technology.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Are there individuals that were an influence in your becoming an
artist?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">At various stages throughout my life, there have been
several people who have been key influencers. I had a really fantastic art
teacher called Lindy Spreadborough who was incredibly nurturing and always gave
lots of encouragement. I also had various friends & relatives of the family
who were artistic so I think they had a strong influence on me too. When I
decided to paint full time, I couldn’t have done it without the love and
support of my husband Matthew.</span><br />
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many to name. One key theme that they all share is a wonderful sense of colour.
In my early years, I loved Monet, Matisse, Willem de Kooning and Hundertwasser.
I love the Japanese woodcuts, Basquiat, Joshua Yeldham, Cressida Campbell, John
Olsen, Andy Warhol….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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films, nature…pretty much everything and anything. Since living here in
Thailand, I am constantly inspired whether it’s the wonderful abundance of
tropical flowers to the lanna designs on the temples to collaborating with some
of the many talented artists and craftspeople who live here. My artwork
celebrates the joy of the life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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project whether it’s a painting or a teacup. Then I like to think about it and
do some concepts before I start working on it. Sometimes, it can be really
quick other times I have to think about it a bit more before I actually start
painting. I usually find I have several things working in the back of my sub
conscious mind. To the outsider, it always looks like I leave things to the
last minute before completing a job but I have been always thinking about my
work beforehand. The actual painting doesn’t take that long, once I have the
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I create for all product categories from ceramics/ tabletop
to stationery to textiles to bedding. I’ve also done a couple of book covers,
designed websites and am even consulting on interiors for a new café here in
Chiang Mai. I also do a bit of graphic design and product styling for photos. I
love new challenges and I love learning new things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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been thinking about doing lately, especially online. I also give lectures at
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been living in Thailand. Most kitchens in Thailand do not have an oven and I
didn’t realize how much I love to bake! This year, I have been learning
ceramics – how to use the potter’s wheel but I have decided I do not have the
patience or skill for this. I have also been to a few Bollywood dance classes in
my time LOL.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">You can find my work on cards, textiles, canvases, works on
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1379359545649_2300" style="color: #1f497d;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1379359545649_2299"><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></i></b></span></span></span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1379359545649_2292" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>How did you become an artist?</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was one of those kids who was drawing constantly. First monsters, then cars and then cartoons. I remember in school they told me to stop drawing and do my math work but I kept drawing anyways. All of my friends were into superhero comics but I loved Mad Magazines and I would lock myself in my room and copy the art of Mort Drucker,Jack Davis and other Mad artists.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I studied art at Cal State Northridge near Los Angeles where I got a my degree in art. I loved art history and the classes there really expanded my thinking about all the different kinds of art and artists there are. I think my real art education came after college when I got a job working at a local art store. I got to meet working artists and talk with them about the business of art how they use their materials and their processes of creating art. I made a lot of great friends and business connections there.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">My parents were my main influence. My dad used to bring home reams of paper from his work so I could draw, paint and make comics. I think it was also to keep me from drawing on the walls. To get that kind of support from your parents early on is very important to a kid. They were always proud of me and my art.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">The artists of the early Mad Magazines were a definite influence on me and shaped my art and humor. Later on I found artists like Peter de Sève, David Shannon and British children book artists Jez Alborough and Colin McNaughton.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I’m inspired by everything that going on around me. My wife and daughter inspire me along with the community of artists in the SCBWI. They really keep my creative juices flowing.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I start by collecting all the reference I need for a project and then just sitting down and playing with ideas and making very rough thumbnails. Gradually I start refining the lines and the ideas down to where I want them. I go down a lot of dead ends and do a lot of erasing until I’m happy with the result. I use Corel Painter 12 to do all my artwork from sketches to finish and that really speeds up the process and makes changes easier. My sketches that I send to the art director or editor are usually pretty refined though. I believe that if I put more work into the sketches the less problems I’ll have with the finished art.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">There’s <a href="http://www.bobmcmahon.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1379359544_0">www.bobmcmahon.com</span></a></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.childrensillustrators.com/illustrator-details/bmcmahon/id=1666/portfolio/" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1379359544_1">http://www.childrensillustrators.com/illustrator-details/bmcmahon/id=1666/portfolio/</span></a></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I also have a realistic painterly style that I love to do and I have a whole separate website for that:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I create art for the children’s book and educational market. I have done art for advertising, movie posters. Recently a puzzle company called me and wanted to use art from of my promotional cards for a puzzle. I have been dabbling in the fine art market with my other realistic style too.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I have all these ideas for children’s books so I have been trying to do some writing. I don’t play any instruments or am I musical, unfortunately. I really envy those artists who can also sing and play instruments but that’s just not in me.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">My art can be seen on the Children’s books The Very Crowded Sukkot, Making Cents, Apple Days (2014), Ravensberger Puzzles, educational publications, I Am A Pirate Captain book and pirate kit and many other products.</span><br />
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Pattihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09063640642299838764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5252752810935440938.post-17726589789326430752013-09-30T08:52:00.000-07:002013-09-30T08:52:22.944-07:00Sarah Beise<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I really had no choice. From my earliest memories I was creating, inventing and building (or making messes as my mother said!) One of my favorite things to draw my inventions or tell a story through my drawings.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Early on it was a fellow 1st grader named Van. He and I always volunteered to put up the 1st grade bulletin board during recess. One day, while we were cutting out construction paper and gluing and pinning all kinds of things together as we designed our masterpiece, he asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I did not know. He said he wanted to be an artist so he could always put up bulletin boards. I knew at that moment I wanted to be an artist too and have never wavered from that day. My high school art teacher Deborah Cooper, also pointed me in the right direction, as well as serving as a very important mentor. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am inspired by everything around me from the beauty in nature to the magical digital universe. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I typically start all my projects with paper and pencil but quickly move on to the computer for completion of the image. My work definitely gravitates towards children, animals and lightheartedness. I need to be able to smile at my own characters and images before they are ready to greet the world.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have been so fortunate to create images for all kinds of fun products! Children's books, Children's educational products, App and Web characters and animation, Paper product ( greeting cards, gift bag, wrap, plates, napkins and cup etc), Scrapbooking, Fabric, Puzzles and a few 3-d characters that light up for Halloween!</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.catugeau.com/" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1378855212283_2187" rel="nofollow" style="color: #2862c5; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">www.catugeau.com</span></a></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yes, I do! I have 3-D Fuzzy Puzzles that just arrived at Target, A few books (Addition Annie, Don't lose your Shoes and I Can!), Greeting and Box cards, Gift bags, Gift wrap and I actually designed a Bulletin Board Set (Dress for Weather)!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I wake up excited each day about drawing the next character or telling the next story. I still can not imagine anything else I 'd rather do!</span></div>
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