An entire industry has grown up around Mary Engelbreit, but it all began with a young girl who just wanted to draw pictures. Mary moved into her first “studio,” a hastily vacated linen closet in the St. Louis home where she grew up, when she was just 11 years old. “We jammed a desk and...
Jeffrey Ebbeler has been creating award winning art for children for over a decade. He has illustrated more than 40 picture books. He worked as an Art Director for the children’s book department of Publication’s International in Chicago for 6 years. He writes and illustrates the monthly comic series Nestor’s Dock for Ask magazine. He...
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...
