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CURRICULUM VITAE

Illustrator
Career Overview

     A creative, award-winning professional illustrator with a lifelong love of art and illustration.
Built a career understanding the needs of diverse clients, and producing fresh, powerful illustrations to educate, illuminate, entertain, promote and inspire.

 

     Experience includes work as a freelance mural artist, lettering trucks and ambulances, illustrating comic books and posters, drafting architecture, logo design and silk screen, and as a bridal in costume seamstress.

 

    Over course of career, worked with major book publishers, magazines and commercial clients, including a Tribal Nation which has world class resort and casino and major entertainment corporation.

Highlights of Illustration Experience

 

Comic Book Illustrator

 

Freelance illustrator for a comic strip titled "Mirror Image" for a local writer, Steve Simonson.

 

Poster Art & Caricature

 

Produced a series of posters as an employee of Prentice Hall (the world's leading educational publisher) in Waterford, CT that addressed customer service themes through comical interpretations of literary and historical characters. These posters are currently housed in the archives of Bureau for Better Business Practice publications.  Similarly, I produced a series of celebrity caricatures for "In the Know" and "Photo Screen" magazines, published out of New York City, New York.

 

Silk Screening

 

Built and managed a business -Screenz - as a Graphic Designer and Silkscreen Artist. Produced logos and merchandise designs for local businesses, events, and sports teams, and then silkscreening them onto T-shirts, banners, and other apparel.

Mural & Sign Painting

Designed and hand painted numerous signs, murals, and logos on ambulances, trucks, and for historical sites including the Geer One-Room school house, the Mashantucket Pequot ambulances, as well as an installation of storybook characters for the Otis Library of Norwich, CT. Rendered drawings for MGM.

Architectural Renderings, Drafting, and Technical Drawing

Contracted by countless builders, carpenters, developers and real estate companies for architectural  renderings as part of speculative building projects and development projections.

Awards & Recognition
Won contests for Ledyard Fair Brochures.
Honorable Mention Awards at Mystic Art Show.

Won Best T-shirt Design for New London, CT Sail Fest 

Other Career Highlights

 
Publishing

Illustrator of Brochures and Posters

Prentice Hall, Simon & Schuster, Bureau of Business Practice, and Carr Spiers.

 

Magazines
Caricature Illustrator

Photo Screen, Tiger Beat, and In the Know.

 

Real Estate

Building Blueprints, Elevations, and Final Renderings

McBride Realty, Cote Carpenters, Fortin Builders, Christy Hill Builders, R & C Carpenters, and Lightning Construction.

 

Political Artwork
Local Bars,& "9-11"

Education

 

University of Connecticut

B.F.A. in Studio Art, 1974

Three Rivers Community College

Drafting and Technical Drawing

 
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