Chris Easey did not attend his first art class until after retiring from secondary school teaching. His partner, Sharon, gave him a box of paints and paper for his retirement as “a hint to do something useful!” While “sitting in the sun adding watercolor to a pen and ink drawing of a gateway, a shadow...
Pamela Dalton’s Scherenschnitte have delighted collectors worldwide for almost twenty-five years. Her work is created in the tradition of early American paper cutting popular in the Pennsylvania Dutch regions of this country in the early nineteenth century. Dalton’s original designs are influenced by popular historical themes: patriotism, biblical and religious motifs, and scenes from rural...
Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, Richard Cowdrey graduated from The Columbus College of Art and Design in 1981. After briefly working at Hallmark Greeting Cards, in Kansas City, Missouri, he has been a freelance illustrator working with many distinguished clients, such as, Abercrombie & Fitch, Chase Manhattan Bank, Ducks Unlimited, Harcourt Brace, Harper Collins, Wendy’s International...
Floyd Cooper received a Coretta Scott King Award for his illustrations in The Blacker the Berry and a Coretta Scott King Honor for Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea and I Have Heard of a Land. Born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Cooper received a degree in fine arts from the University of Oklahoma and, after...
Normand Chartier is a Connecticut artist, who lives in the rural “Quiet Corner” of the state. He is an accomplished rising watercolorist and an internationally celebrated illustrator, specializing in children’s literature. His luminous impressionistic watercolor paintings have won numerous awards and have found their way into more than two hundred and fifty public and private...
Marsha cannot remember a time in her life when she was not making something. Whether it was drawing, painting, making photographs at an early age with her Brownie camera, or just putting together found objects. Marsha has always known that visual creativity was her calling and passion. Her mother, Louise H. Carrington, an accomplished and...
When Gina Capaldi was ten years old she wrote a letter to Norman Rockwell telling him she loved his work and when she grew up wanted to be an illustrator, too! Mr. Rockwell wrote back to Gina and this very letter sits near her drafting table- forever encouraging and uplifting her. Gina has both written...
Fred Brenner was born in New Jersey in 1920. He graduated from Newark Arts High School, the first secondary school in the United States dedicated to a primarily Arts Curriculum. He also attended classes at Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art and later studied painting with Charles Alston. Fred’s first job was as a...
Marc Brown is best known as the author and illustrator of the wildly popular Arthur series. Born in Erie, Pennsylvania, he grew up hearing stories from his grandma Thora and great grandmother. He found inspiration for many of the characters in Arthur’s world from his own life including his third-grade class at Lakewood School and...
