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Artist // Professional // Traditional Art
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Silver Fragment: Setting the silver standard of greatness!
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My Bio

I am an illustrator, art teacher, horse maniac, and total nerd.
I was fortunate enough to spend many childhood hours in libraries and forests—two settings I highly recommend if you want to grow up drawing talking animals, myth and magic, and mysterious creatures.

The most important tool in my arsenal is a .5 mechanical pencil (2B if I’m feeling frisky). My eyeglass prescription and my affinity for texture and detail are hilariously mismatched.

I balance the hours spent leaning over my desk with time in the saddle. The rest of my free time is spent “exploring” (read, getting lost in) the woods, reading comic books, and writing short stories.

I studied Illustration at both the Delaware College of Art and Design and the Maryland Institute College of Art. Since I can’t shut up about drawing, I teach drawing workshops and middle school art.


Favourite Visual Artist
Ken Hultgren, Michael Hague, Jan Brett, C.W. Anderson, Susan Jeffers, Ruth Sanderson, Jan Brett
Favourite Movies
The Prince of Egypt, The Black Stallion, How to Train Your Dragon
Favourite TV Shows
Scrubs, M*A*S*H, Elementary, Avatar: The Last Airbender, DC's original animated universe
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Mostly 80's and Soundtrack/Instrumental
Favourite Books
The Screwtape Letters, HP series, The Hobbit/Lotr/Silmarillion, Padraic Colum's Children of Odin, Watership Down, Out of the Silent Planet. Favorite comics include DC's Kingdom Come, Batman: The Black Mirror, and Marvel's Walt Simonson run of Thor.
Favourite Writers
C.S. Lewis, J.K. Rowling, Diane Lee Wilson, Elizabeth Letts
Tools of the Trade
Graphite, Pen and Ink, Photoshop
Other Interests
Horseback Riding, Literature, Design
Well. It's been a while, and I'm two years late to the rage party. Come back to find some old images and find out that Deviantart crawled all over everyone's work with their own copyright-violating money grab. Wish I could feign surprise. Ya know what's funny, if DA had just stayed the course and kept on doing what they were originally doing--providing a niche art platform rather than a social media sight--they would have caught all of the artists currently fleeing META platforms. For all the fun I had here, all teen angst and cringe included, I just can't muster pretending I'm here anymore. But what a kick in the teeth. Opt out after we already crawled everything, my ass.
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Been away for two weeks: sailed down the Danube.  Thanks for the DD.  :)
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I'm not financially stable enough to own a horse.  But I ride two.  One of them is an Andalusian named Rowan who has suffered from EPM for quite a while.  It wasn't caught early, and he's had lasting problems for several years.  I'm not an expert on his condition, but the gist is that's an attack on the central nervous system that causes all kinds of lovely problems, most notably in Rowan's case, a loss of coordination and extremely unpredictable lameness/stiffness.  He had to be worked so that his muscles wouldn't "lock up" and that's where I came in to things. Recently, he spooked and fell backward so severely that he essentially landed ...
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dragons, deer, horses and birds? sign me up! :>
that's a fair summary.  :lol:  Thanks!
Happy B-Day  ^^
Happy bday! :D (Big Grin) Have your cake and eat it too