Archive for June, 2008

http://beckyheavner.com/

Becky’s whimsical fluid brushwork and collage style is featured in many national magazines, advertising and packaging. The artwork is cut and assembled using overdyed papers, specialty papers and found textures and patterns. Inspiration come textiles, objects, natural and cultural elements found. She combines natural handmade elements with technology. Becky has received awards and recognition from AIGA, Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington, The Society of Illustrators, Society of Publication Designers, American Illustration, Communication Arts, and the Illustrators Club of Washington DC. Becky’s illustration work, paintings and textile art have appeared in galleries and shows in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington DC. Her flash animations In Hiding have been shown at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC and other venues as part of an original collaboration with Jane Franklin Dance and Gina Biver composer.

http://penelopeillustration.com/

So far Penelope Dullaghan has been illustrating full-time for only a few years. They do say that the first few years are the hardest, though, and Penelope hopes they’re right.

During her ongoing efforts to, um, go on, she has learned much about persistence, dedication, and how much she loves the process of making art. (Conclusion: quite a bit.)

Penelope has used these realizations to stoke not only the fiery furnace of her own creativity, but innumerable furnaces worldwide, through her online expression portal/participatory art exhibit, Illustration Friday. I-Fri, originally quite modest, now boasts more than half-a-million hits per month and close to a thousand participants each week.

That’s a lot.

Also generous in the numerical department are Penelope’s clients, who range from a lady who bakes organic cookies to United Airlines, which, you know, flies all around everywhere. Each job gets her best work, though, regardless of size, because Penelope has a reputation to consider.

(Sometimes only having been in the business a few years is a good thing.)

http://www.collageartist.com/

Claudine Hellmuth is a nationally recognized collage artist, author and illustrator. She combines photos, paint, paper and pen into quirky, whimsical-retro collages that she calls Poppets®.

Her artworks have been featured on The Martha Stewart Show, in Mary Engelbreit’s Home Companion magazine, on HGTV’s “I Want That!” and on the DIY Network’s program, “Craft Lab.” In addition to creating her artwork full-time, Claudine teaches collage workshops in the US & Canada, and she has written 2 books about her techniques, “Collage Discovery Workshop” and “Collage Discovery Workshop: Beyond the Unexpected.” She has also produced three instructional DVD workshops. Claudine’s studio and home is in Orlando, Florida, where she lives with her husband, Paul and their very spoiled pets – Toby the wonder dog and Mable & Stanley the cats.