I am SO excited to be the featured artist on Kathy Teaman's WRITING and ILLUSTRATING blog for Illustrator Saturday!
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Click HERE to read the Interview and see all the images on Kathy's blog.
And here is just a little preview:
How long have you been illustrating?More than 30 years.
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What and when was the first painting or illustration that you did where someone paid you for your artwork?I think it was in High School… I did comics for a local newspaper. I also painted the windows at our comic book store!
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Did you go to college to study art? No. And Yes. I went to summer programs at art schools when I was in High School – but I was expected to go to a “real” college. I went to Brown University to study Egyptology. I left after a while and went to the School of Visual Arts (NYC), then to the Rhode Island School of Design.
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How do you find illustration work? I trip over it. Seriously. It never comes from where I expect… marketing? Nope. Someone sees my work in the science museum while shopping with their kid…
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What is a Certified Zentangle Teacher? How did you get certified?Zentangle® is a meditative drawing process. It’s blasphemy to describe it this way, but it’s “focused doodling”. I was one of the original guinea pigs in the certification program – class #1!
And I wrote the first books on the subject. It changed my life – it’s kind of “trendy” now – but it’s true magic is that it teaches “creative confidence”.
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Click HERE to read the rest of the Interview.
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