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Trisha Krauss lives and works as an illustrator in London. She spent 16 years working in New York City before moving to London. She is married to Antonio from Rome and has three step-children. In New York, she primarily painted with acrylic on plywood, and due to the lack of three-quarter-inch ply in the U.K., she began painting with watercolor and ink. She does have a stash of plywood in her cellar and continues to deplete the earth of fir trees in the name of art.
Illustration, for Daria Jabenko, is inspiring a world of dreams. Every illustration has a personality. The palette of colors can be sensuous and complex or sleek, simple and gleaming, but above all, unexpected, potent and creatively ambitious. The invented world should be a place to go that’s familiar, almost nostalgic, yet strange and new. Her main objective is to provoke positive feelings and a better mindset in the audience. Daria creates most of her illustrations by hand using gouache medium in combination with ink and watercolor.
Lisa Henderling knew she wanted to be an illustrator by the age of six, when she would hide under the piano and draw women with pink hair. Though her show-business parents wanted her to continue in the family tradition, they soon realized that Lisa’s acting and dancing abilities were more than questionable so they acquiesced to her begging for art lessons.
Julia Breckenreid’s illustration work is informed by a diverse background of experiences and perspectives. Both conceptual and intuitive, her versatile palette and agile approach enable her to quickly grasp a client’s needs, to find the right tone and deliver the most compelling visual expression of their message.
Diana Marye Huff attended the Art Center College of Design and the School of Visual Arts. She began her career in New York as a fashion illustrator for Bloomingdale’s, Vogue, Tiffany, and Nieman Marcus. Known for her line work and pattern design, she then expanded her work to include package design, book illustration, and card and wrapping paper design. Most recently, she has returned to school to study oil painting. Ms. Huff says, “As an illustrator you always want to challenge yourself and keep your work relevant in an ever-changing marketplace.”
It’s obvious from looking at her images that Eva Renes definitely has good fashion sense. Eva studied at the Academy Italia in Florence where she earned a Master’s Degree in Fashion. Today she works in Germany as a freelance designer and illustrator and creates images for fashion magazines and corporate collateral material.
Pep Montserrat was born in Roda de Ter, near Barcelona. He has created illustrations for El País, La Vanguardia, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, the New Yorker, Harpers’s Magazine, Travel + Leisure and other newspapers and magazines in the United States and Spain. He has also illustrated several children’s books, some of which have been published in Spain, France, Italy, USA, Switzerland, Brazil, Korea and Portugal. His work on children’s books has won numerous awards and honors.
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Coming from a family of artists, it was natural for Janice Fried to express herself visually. A graduate of Parson’s School of Design, Janice works in a multi- media style using watercolor, colored pencils, collage, pen and ink and a scratching technique. Her work has appeared in magazines, newspapers, advertising, book covers, children’s books, pop-up books, text books, card decks, greeting cards, CD covers and music books.
By Skirt.com, Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 1 comment
Trisha Krauss is an American illustrator based in London. She began her career in New York City where she established herself as an award-winning illustrator. Her work has appeared in many publications, advertising campaigns and books. In New York she was known for her figurative illustrations that were painted on plywood. This style obtained recognition for its sophistication and wit. In London she has expanded stylistically by painting with watercolor and ink, and this offers her more versatility in subject matter.
By Skirt.com, Sunday, November 1, 2009, 2 comments
Leigh Viner was born and raised in Denver, where she still lives and works. She is currently expanding into fashion design, which has always been a large influence on her work, but she mostly creates from her emotions and life experiences. In addition to being an artist, Leigh works part-time as a freelance makeup artist. This skill gives her a better understanding of the structure of her subjects’ faces and influences the color in her art.
By Skirt.com, Thursday, October 1, 2009, 0 comments
Aimee Sicuro received a BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design. After experience working as a line designer for American Greetings and a Flash Animator for a once-budding dot-com in San Francisco, she packed her portfolio and headed to New York. Inspired by circumstance and in search of a new perspective, she took a job as a project manager and illustrator at a design firm in Soho.
By Skirt.com, Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 0 comments
Sophie Blackall has illustrated fifteen and a half children’s books (including Ruby’s Wish, Meet Wild Boars, Wombat Walkabout and the Ivy and Bean series), and her work has appeared in many magazines and newspapers (including The New York Times, Food & Wine and Town & Country). She is a collector of rotten old dolls and Victorian children’s shoes, a fancier of moths and shadows and indexes and other people’s shopping lists.
In college, Judy Stead majored in her two favorite subjects, reading and drawing, and has found this to be an endlessly useful combination over a creative career as teacher, designer, art director, artist and illustrator. Besides illustrating books for children, Judy’s art appears in other print media magazines, greeting cards, gift wrap and on paper partyware. And sometimes, in galleries and museum shops, when there’s time to do work that isn’t on assignment!
Hadley Hutton grew up in a home filled with color, with a mother who felt that humanity’s greatest invention was the color wheel. Hadley recalls her mom changing wall colors as often as other people change the sheets. One day, little Hadley met an artist who painted for his profession and her exact words were, “People get paid to do this?” Today, she lives her dream working as an illustrator and artist in her hometown of Portland, Oregon. Hadley’s work is a blend of traditional painting and modern design.
Louis St. Lewis was the perfect choice for The Eve Issue this month, as his celebrated mixed-media collages are frequently based on the intersection of mythology and religion. Andy Warhol commented that Louis’s work was “like Hieronymus Bosch meets MTV!” With over 30 national and international solo exhibitions to his credit, Louis’s creations are in the collections of such notables as HRH The Prince of Kuwait, Christian LaCroix, André Leon Talley and Oprah Winfrey.
Rebecca Bradley was born and raised in southeast England. She attended Maidstone College of Art and Chelsea College of Art and came to the US in 1999 to study for a MFA in Illustration at Savannah College of Art and Design. Rebecca taught at the Art Institute of Boston for five years before joining the faculty of The Maryland Institute of Art in 2005. She works primarily in watercolor dyes and her client list includes BBC, Orion Books, Emap, Conde Nast, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Galison Cards, Outside Magazine and Penguin Books.
Trisha Krauss lives and works
as an illustrator in London.
She spent 16 years working in
New York City before moving
to London. She is married to
Antonio from Rome, has three
step-children and a Weimaraner named Hector (seen on
the cover), who has been her
muse and has kept her amused
for 14 years. In New York, she
primarily painted with acrylic
on plywood, and due to the
lack of three-quarter-inch ply
in the U.K., she began painting
with watercolor and ink.
By Skirt.com, Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 0 comments
Brian T. Kershisnik was the
fourth and last son of good
parents. Because his father was
a petroleum geologist, he grew
up in Angola, Thailand, Texas
and Pakistan. He graduated
from high school early, not
because of sterling merit, but
because the American Embassy
in Islamabad burned down and
he was evacuated and, by
default, graduated. After a year
of college at the University of
Utah searching in vain for a
vocation, he served as an LDS
missionary in Denmark. He
returned to the U.S.
By Skirt.com, Saturday, January 31, 2009, 2 comments
Caroline Hwang was born
in Minneapolis and moved at
the ripe age of one to sunny,
Southern California for the
warmth. She received her
Bachelor’s Degree at Art
Center College of Design. She
currently resides in Brooklyn,
New York. Caroline’s work is
influenced by crafts, graphic
arts, quilting, films and music,
among other things. Her work
has become what it is today
from the days of watching her
grandmother crochet and knit.
When she is not sewing and
making art, she is always on a
search for the perfect burrito.
By Angelia, Wednesday, December 31, 2008, 1 comment
Danna Ray grew up in a log
cabin in the woods of rural
South Carolina. Surrounded
by forest and lots of crayons,
she enjoyed drawing tiny bugs
and tiny plants, and tiny kittens
driving trucks. In 2003, she
received her BFA in Illustration
from Virginia Commonwealth
University in Richmond,
Virginia. Her current work
is inspired by exploration,
wildness, and the inherent
connectedness of all things.
Her most recent work is
being shown at Nahcotta
Gallery in Portsmouth, New
Hampshire. Dannaray.com
and groundwork.etsy.com.
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Drawing inspiration from a
variety of storytellers in
formats that range from music
and movies to ancient folklore
and comic book adventures,
Vietnamese-born artist
Duy Huynh creates his own
narratives of the human condition. In his paintings, ethereal
characters maintain a serene,
precarious balance, often in a
surreal or dreamlike setting.
Duy explores motion along
with emotion in order to
portray not just the beauty of
the human form, but also the
triumph of the human spirit.
By Skirt.com, Thursday, October 30, 2008, 0 comments
Mixed media artist Susan Krieg
is internationally known for
her neo-classical figurative
series titled “Archetypes of the
Feminine.” Born in Fargo, ND,
in 1952, her journey has taken
her to Chicago, Minneapolis,
San Francisco, Phoenix, New
York City, Los Angeles, Coos
Bay, OR, South Lake Tahoe and,
most recently, to Ventura, CA.
Since 1989, when she established her business as Krieg
Art Studio, Susan has created
more than 400 large-scale
paintings in her figurative Archetypes series.
By Skirt.com, Tuesday, September 30, 2008, 1 comment
Based in Tampa, Florida, Jen Renninger has worked since 1998 as an illustrator and artist, creating chic modern images that resonate with a wide range of clients. Her eyecatching work is soft yet powerful, combining sophisticated painting and line-work with nostalgic collage materials. The result is a portfolio of work honed to current trends yet rendered with a delicate hand.
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Rebecca Bradley was born and raised in Southeast England. She attended Maidstone College of Art and Chelsea College of Art and came to the U.S. in 1999 to study for a MFA in Illustration at Savannah College of Art and Design. Rebecca taught at the Art Institute of Boston for 5 years before joining the faculty of The Maryland Institute of Art in 2005. She works primarily in watercolor dyes, and her client list includes the BBC, Orion Books, EMAP, Conde Nast, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Galison Cards, Outside magazine and Penguin Books.
Caroline Hwang was born in Minneapolis and moved at the ripe age of one to sunny Southern California for the warmth. She received her Bachelor’s Degree at Art Center College of Design. She currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. Caroline’s work is influenced by crafts, graphic arts, quilting, films and music, among other things. Her work has become what it is today from the days of watching her grandmother crochet and knit. When she is not sewing and making art, she is always on a search for the perfect burrito.
Judy Wise has been painting her daydreams since she was a young girl growing up in Arizona. Oddly enough, she never owned a pair of cowboy boots herself, but after she painted the image she found a beautiful pair of boots just her size in a favorite second-hand store. Now she is the lady in the beautiful boots. Judy’s favorite pastimes include looking for treasures in thrift stores, painting and collaging in her journals, photographing her artful journey and reporting on her daily activities in her blog at http://judywise.blogspot.com.
Nancy Thomas is a contemporary artist who has lived and created in historic Yorktown, Virginia, for the past thirty years. Her work is known throughout the country for its wonderful color, its wit and its style, and especially for its capacity to add freshness and warmth to both contemporary and traditional settings. Nancy’s work appears in the homes of thousands of collectors, as well as in magazines, museums, Hollywood fi lms (Mean Creek, You’ve Got Mail, Tootsie, Spiderman 3), Broadway and on television.
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As a child, Tinou visited museums in Greece and Italy with her parents. Greek Art was her favorite, so much so that she later illustrated Greek Myths: Tales of Passion, Heroism, and Betrayal with author Shoshanna Kirk.
“The images of the painted frescoes were so animated and at the same time demure,” she said. Today, Tinou Le Joly Senoville lives in an apartment in Paris. She likes to go to fl ea markets, because it is like taking a voyage. She will track down a vase for its color, a fabric for its patterns, a sharkskin box for its texture.
Jennifer DeDonato, a paper artist from Houston, Texas, loves the “old school” hands-on technique with scissors and adhesive. She has two passions which go into her creativity: one is vintage matchbook covers and the other is her extremely large collection of art/design paper. Jen says, “I use old discarded matchbooks and give them a second life.” Some of Jen’s inspiration is brought to her in her sleep; many of her pieces were dreamt of, thought of, and cut out.
