Jason Dove
- JASON DOVE
About the Artist
Jason Dove is currently a Senior Design / Illustrator for American Greetings, and he works with a variety of clients in children's publishing including Wireless Generation, Lerner Pubishing, Mc-Graw Hill, and Zondervan.
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Illustration
Date
2012
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Cale Atkinson
Cale Atkinson is an illustrator/animator currently residing lakeside in Kelowna Canada. Believing in tea more than sleep, Cale is constantly working on numerous projects. His work can be found in children’s books, animated shorts, television, and games.
Cale's clients include Disney, Fisher Price, Leapfrog, Scholastic, Pearson, and Lerner Publishing.
See more of his work at www.cale.ca 2012 Illustration -
Scott R. Brooks
Scott R. Books lives and works from his home studio in Atlanta, Georgia.
2012
Illustration
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Brent Campbell
Brent Campbell graduated from Columbus College of Art and Design and currently resides in North Canton, Ohio with his wife, Paula, and their children, Thomas and Kate. Clifford the dog rounds out the family circle.
Brent is an active member of the Northern Ohio Illustrator's Society. He is inspired by classic fables and early nineteenth century book illustrators such as Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac. 2012 Illustration -
Gina Capaldi
Gina Capaldi has both written and illustrated books and products for trade, historical non fiction, educational, and the toy industries. She often combines traditional painting techniques and mediums with collage and digital elements to add additional layer of visual story telling.
Her adherence to comprehensive research in historical non fiction has garnered Gina book's major awards:
Red Bird Sings: Gold Medal- Carter G. Woodson Award, National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS); Gold Medal, Moon Beam Award-Independent Publisher; Eureka! Honor Book, California Reading Association (CRA); Amelia Bloomer Book List-American Library Association (ALA);
California Reading Association Booklist (CRA); SCBWI 2011 RAM Grant; California Readers 2013 California Collections: Elementary and Middle Grade lists.
A Boy Named Beckoning: Eureka! Silver Medal Award, California Reading Association) (CRA); Carter G. Woodson Honor Book, National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS); Gold Medal. Independent Publisher Book Award; Skipping Stones Honor Award. This book was also included in the 2009 Orbis Pictus Award Recommended Book list by the National Council of Teachers; and, included in Bank Street College of Education's text book (100th anniversary edition) as one of the 'The Best Children's Books of the Year, 2009'.
Additionally, Gina's book, American Indians: Garments, Customs, Legends and Lore, was adopted into the Arlington, Virginia School curriculum.
Some of Gina's clients include: Lerner Publishing, Boyds Mills Press, Hey Day Press, Concordia Press, InnovativeKids, Harcourt Educational, Pearson Learning, and Quarsan.
Gina studied fine arts at Pepperdine University and Pitzer College; and, illustration at Art Center: College of Design. She is an active member of the Society of Children's Book Publishers, and Delta Kappa Gamma International Society of Women Educators.
Visit Gina's website at www.ginacapaldi.com or www.redbirdsings.com
Blog www.ginacapaldi.blogspot.com 2012 Illustration -
Holly Clifton-Brown
Holly Clifton-Brown is a freelance illustrator living in London. Her work combines traditional painting with contemporary techniques to create a unique and imagination visual language.
She was brought up in the country side where she loved to look at the pictures in books. Nothing has changed. Then she grew up a bit and started to learn how to draw pictures, except not yet in books, rather on school tables, clothes, and other silly places. Eventually she packed her paints and completed a degree in illustration at the University of the West of England, graduating with 1st class honours.
Holly has worked with: Andersen Press, Templar Publishing, Egmont Ltd, Carlton Publishing Ltd, Lerner Books US, Oxford University Press, Miles Kiely, Filberts ltd, The Chelsea Magazine Company, The Artfile & Pheonix Trading. To see more of her work, please visit her website at www.hollycliftonbrown.co.uk! 2012 Illustration -
Chris Danger
My name is Chris and I love to draw.
I draw illustrations for magazines and Children's books.
I'm also an animator, and I worked on shows like Ugly Americans and Motorcity .
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Audrey Durney
Audrey Durney lives and works from her home studio in Austin, TX.
2012
Illustration
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Akemi Gutierrez
For 8 years, Akemi was an assistant animator for Walt Disney Features. Her screen credits include, "Pocahontas", "Emperor's New Groove", "Hercules", "Mulan", "Treasure Planet", "Fantasia 2000", "Home On The Range", "Tarzan", and "Hunchback Of Notre Dame." She also worked on animated sequences for "Jurassic Park" and "Son of Pink Panther"
as well as illustrating the video covers for "Mulan" and "101 Dalmatians."
Since 1999, Akemi has illustrated over 20 children's books for Harper Collins, Scholastic, Houghton Mifflin and others. Some of her books have won shiny awards and have been translated into other languages.
She has also done illustration work for the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles and has artwork included in the permanent collection of the World Awareness Children's Museum in New York.
With a joy for drawing and painting, Akemi can often be found sketching in Los Angeles where she makes her home with her hamster, Owen.
Akemi does not like lima beans, but does love to hide in the T Rex at the Natural History Museum. 2012 Illustration -
Katey-Jean Harvey
My name is Katey-Jean Harvey, I'm an illustrator based in London. My work is often narrative based, creating a world where my grumpy girls in cute dresses can sulk about boys and hang out with skeletons and sausage dogs. I am fond of thin paint brushes, grey paper and sneaking cats into all of my pictures.
2013
Illustration
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Marilyn Janovitz
Marilyn Janovitz is a children's book author and illustrator with numerous books to her credit, many of which have been translated into several languages. Marilyn's publishing partners include North-South Books,Chronicle, Scholastic, Sourcebooks, and Blue Apple Books. Marilyn works from her closet sized studio in New York City.
2012
Illustration, Writing
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Dani Jones
Dani Jones's work has been published in picture books, magazines, educational material, comics, and games. See more at http://danidraws.com.
2012
Illustration
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Dave Kirwan
Dave Kirwan is an award winning illustrator/cartoonist, who has created hundreds of lighthearted images for children's books, websites, videos and assorted educational projects. Assorted end clients have included McGraw Hill, Trend Enterprises, LeapFrog, Agile Mind Educational and many more.
2012
Illustration
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Wednesday Kirwan
Wednesday 's publishing partners include Sterling Publishing, Chronicle Books, and Little Simon. She's also an illustrator and product designer for GAMA-GO, a clothing and gift design company in San Francisco. When she's not drawing pictures, Wednesday is often checking out the view from Bernal Hill with her small dog, Nemo. See more from Wednesday at www.wednesdaykirwan.com.
2012
Illustration, Writing
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Carol Koeller
From an early age, Carol believed pictures improved things. This included furniture, walls, and her homework. Fortunately, she eventually found her way to art school, where the pictures she drew were her homework.
Carol moved twenty times before she and her family finally settled in Chicago, where she acquired a permanent address (and an address stamp). Since then, she's illustrated picture books and educational materials for many publications and publishers including Ladybug, Babybug, Highlights for Children, Magination Press, McGraw-Hill, Scholastic and Dutton.
Carol's books include Mom, Dad, Come Back Soon!, Adoption: How Families are Made and How Kids Feel About It, Ah-Choo!, Why I Thank You, God, and I Don't Want To Clean My Room.
Visit her website at www.carolkoeller.com! 2012 Illustration -
Ron Lieser
In my work, I try to keep the mood light and the colors bright. Please take a few minutes to browse through my samples, and if you have any comments or suggestions about what you see, I’d love to hear them.
And hey, if you’re an art director who thinks my style of work might be just right for that kids project you’ve got coming up, I’d love to work with you.
To see more of work go to ronlieser.com 2012 Illustration -
Christopher Lyles
Christopher Lyles is a professional illustrator who spends much of his time working in a variety of media and exploring new fields. Since graduating art school in 2001, Chris has contributed to children's publications, greeting cards, editorial illustrations, and gallery installations.
His illustrations have been recognized by The Society of Illustrators LA and American Illustration. Chris also exhibits his work on the East coast and in LA.
Chris lives in the small town of Simsbury, Connecticut with his beautiful wife, their young son, and dog, Riley. His interests include hiking, exercising, traveling, teaching art to children and looking for old stuff. 2012 Illustration -
Courtney Autumn Martin
Courtney Autumn Martin graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2006. Working in a combination of traditional pencil drawing and digital painting, her illustrations for children are colorful and friendly, with a marketable style that merges realism and stylization.
Courtney's clients include Abrams Books, Scholastic, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, MacMillan McGraw-Hill, Publications International, and National Geographic.
She and her husband (fellow illustrator Adam Hunter Peck) reside in Rhode Island with their two cats, Griffin and Miette.
See more of her work at camartinart.com. 2012 Illustration -
Janet McDonnell
Janet has been working in children's publishing for over 20 years, first as an editor, then writer and, for the past 18 years, as an illustrator. It's her favorite role yet. Janet loves being surrounded by kids -- watching them, listening to them, and especially drawing them. She is a proud member of the Picture Book Artists Association and the Co-coordinator for the SCBWI Chicago-area Illustrators Network. Janet lives in a suburb of Chicago with her two amateur comedian sons and her amazing husband (who’s also pretty darn funny).
2012
Illustration
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Paul Meisel
Paul Meisel is an award-winning author and illustrator for children. His SEE ME RUN (Holiday House, 2012) was voted a Theodore Seuss Geisel Honor book! Paul lives and works in Connecticut, where Paul and his wife and raised their three grown sons. Paul spends most days working in his studio, which has a nice view of the woods and the backyard--often filled with deer, turkeys, an occasional coyote, and once in a great while, a bobcat.
2012
Illustration, Writing
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Maria Mola
Maria is from Barcelona, Spain. And she currently lives in Chicago with her husband and two young sons. Maria is always embracing the adventure of bringing her art to the children's picture book industry. Her clients include Lerner Publishing, Editions Anna Chanel, Pearson, and McGraw-Hill among others.
Maria was trained in the Francesca Bonnemaison School (Barcelona) and the Moore College of Art (Philadelphia). She creates her work both digitally and in traditional media often combining both. When not creating children's book dummies she enjoys reading and photography.
Personal website at: www.mariamola.com 2012 Illustration -
CA Nobens
Cheryl Nobens has over 30 years of professional experience in concept, graphic design and illustration of an extensive variety of products for infant through whimsical adult markets. She's illustrated over 60 children's books and is a published writer. She works primarily in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, with a background in watercolor painting.
2012
Illustration
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Merrill Rainey
LittleRainey or Merrill Rainey, has been working as a professional illustrator and graphic designer for over 10 years. Merrill is a 5' 7" kid at heart. He uses his youthful memories of growing up as inspiration to draw his imaginative ideas. Merrill likes to think of his illustration work as charming, with a slight modern twist. A techie geek by nature, Merrill generates all of his illustrations using a combination of a Green Pencil, his Modbook, and Adobe Illustrator. Some of Merrill's clients include: American Greetings, Hasbro, Houghton Mifflin, Humpty Dumpty Magazine, Jack & Jill Magazine, McGraw Hill, KaBOOM, Pockets Magazine. To view more work by Merrill please visit www.littlerainey.com
2012
Cartooning, Character Design, Illustration
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Joanne Renaud
Joanne Renaud, who earned a BFA in illustration from Art Center College of Design, has been writing, drawing and painting as long as she can remember. She went to college in a variety of places, including Northern Ireland and Southern California, and enjoys history, comics, children’s books, and cheesy fantasy movies from the ’80s. She currently works as a freelance illustrator in the Atlanta area. Her illustration clients include Simon & Schuster, Random House, Houghton Mifflin, Macmillan-McGraw Hill, Harcourt Inc., Zaner Bloser and Compass Media. Her personal website can be found at joannerenaud.com.
2012
Illustration
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Jane Smith
Jane Smith loves paper. She has boxes and boxes of it, all organized by color. Her love of paper began with her first collage illustration created while attending the Columbus College of Art & Design, where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Art in Illustration.
Upon graduating from CCAD, Jane and her boxes of paper moved to Los Angeles, where after learning her trade as an Art Director at the novelty children’s book publisher, Intervisual Books, she now works as a freelance Illustrator & Book Designer.
She is an active member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, having co-coordinated the SCBWI-LA Westside Illustrators Schmooze for four years as well as numerous events for illustrators.
Jane lives happily with her family in sunny Hermosa Beach, California.
Visit more of Jane's artwork:
www.superjane.com
www.birdmeetsworm.blogspot.com 2012 Illustration -
Judy Stead
Judy lives with her family in Charlotte, North Carolina where she works in her 'treetop studio'. Her playful imagery appears in print and digital media of all kinds. In reviews from Horn Book Guide, Kirkus, SLJ and others, her picturebook illustration is called “exuberant, joyful, vibrant, lively, inviting, vivid, energetic, expressive”. Color = Joy!
2012
Illustration
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Ivica Stevanovic
Ivica Stevanovic(1977) is illustrator, comic artist and graphic designer. He has published more than a thousand illustrations in schoolbooks and picture books. Ivica draws comics, and his specialty is graphic novels. His best-known graphic novel is Kindly Corpses. He works as a professor at the Art Academy in Novi Sad (Serbia), the Department of Graphic communication. He teaches two subjects – Graphic books and Comics. To see more Ivica's work go to http://www.behance.net/IvicaStevanovic
2012
Illustration
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Don Tate
Don Tate is an award-winning author and illustrator for children. See more of Don's portfolio at www.dontate.com.
2012
Illustration
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Chris Vallo
Chris Vallo has spent 22 years creating inspiring art and design for children's publishers.
2012
Illustration
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Natalia Vasquez
Natalia Vasquez grew up in Peru and studied painting at the Fine Arts School of Lima. She is an artist who works with a variety of media including pencil, ink, watercolor and digital media. Natalia thinks illustration is a wonderful way to express herself while working with something she loves. Her clients include Lerner Publishing, Child's Play, Houghton Mifflin, Piggy Toes Press, Pearson, McGraw-Hill, and Richmond Publishing among others. Natalia works and lives in Peru.
Visit her at http://natalia.sugarpop.org 2012 Illustration -
Matthew Vimislik
Matthew Vimislik has illustrated children's books, magazines, and packaging, e-books and children's apps. He's a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.
You can see more of his work at www.vimislikart.com 2012 Illustration -
Damian Ward
Damian Ward grew up with ideas that could barely fit in his big, curly topped head and pencils he could barely fit in his tiny little hands. In time his hands caught up to the pencils but the ideas always seem a bit bigger than his head has the space for.
He studied illustration at the Columbus College of Art and Design. Following graduation, he went on to teach art for several years while freelancing in his hometown of Dayton, Ohio.
Damian now lives with his wife and their beautiful computers in India. His love of storytelling and exploration continue to drive his illustrations and color his perspective of the wide world around him. 2012 Illustration -
Teagan White
Teagan White is a freelance designer and illustrator currently living and working in St Paul, Minnesota. She is a recent graduate of the Minneapolis College of Art & Design, where she received her BFA in Illustration. She is fascinated by nature, and loves plants and animals of all shapes and sizes.
Her work has been recognized by Society of Illustrators New York and Los Angeles, CMYK Magazine, Creative Quarterly, and 3x3 Magazine. To see more of her work, please visit her website, www.teaganwhite.com! 2012 Illustration
