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Posters

Where Designs Dance!

PosterAnti-Child Abuse Poster in Constructivist style

using only red, black & white, plus a brick and grunge texture for

the background.Adobe Photoshop

Poster designed to evoke emotion toward saving the children who cannot save themselves.

Movie PosterMovie Poster

Adobe Photoshop

Poster using aging hands photo with a

Dragan- effect and hand-painted watercolor angel girl with bird.

Concert PosterRomance of the ViolinMusic/Concert Poster

Adobe Photoshop

Poster to advertise theConcert Violinist,

Ms. Carrie. Carrie is created in collage: magazine pieces glued to paper. The colors in the sky are taken from the colors of the violin.

Life Lesson Poster

Adobe PhotoshopJanuary 2012Experimental Computer Illustration I VCDD453

Poster created to show wecan be twice as

happy with half as much. Painting of my daughter

and grandson done in photoshop.

Print Layout

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Magazine LayoutOctober 2011 InDesign This article was created for a European Travel Magazine featuring the hotspots and best times to travel to Spain.

Calendar Layout

Adobe Photoshop

Calendar pages created in Photoshop using several layers of photos and tools. The photo of the nectarine blossoms is my own photo.

Brochure Layout

Adobe InDesign

Three-fold brochure layout to advertise the services of a web designer, with elements such as the globe created in Illustrator and the layout done in InDesign.

Book Illustrations

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Book Layout

InDesign

Seafood book created with 8 recipes and table of contents, including a vector crab created in Illustrator and used for the page numbers.

Children’s Book Illustration

Beach CatJanuary 2012 Advanced Illustration VCDD452Watercolor and Adobe Photoshop collage

Double page spread for children’s book about a wild cat living on the beach.

Children’s Book IllustrationBeach CatWatercolor and Adobe Photoshop collage January 2012 Advanced Illustration VCDD452 Double page spread for the Beach Cat book depicting Terry Tern and Charlie the Turtle who are friends. Filters added in Adobe Photoshop to enhance the sand.

Children’s Book Illustration Beach CatWatercolor on paper January 2012 Advanced Illustration VCDD452 Double page spread illustration for the Beach Cat book done entirely in watercolor on paper.

Knitting Book Illustration

Adobe Illustrator and Adobe PhotoshopMarch 2012Experimental Computer Illustration II VCDD454

Illustration Created to show how yarn was made before we could go to a store and buy it. Spinning wheel created in Illustrator and lady painted in Photoshop.

Knitting Book Illustrations

Adobe Illustrator and Adobe PhotoshopMarch 2012Experimental Computer Illustration II VCDD454

Illustrations created to show how to cast on using the Continental fingering. Drawn in Illustrator, and color added in Photoshop.

Knitting Book Illustrations

Adobe Illustrator and Adobe PhotoshopMarch 2012Experimental Computer Illustration II VCDD454

Illustrations to show the steps to make the purl stitch. Drawn in Illustrator and colored in Photoshop.

Children’s Book IllustrationWhat I Should Have DoneWatercolor and Adobe Photoshop January 2012 Advanced Illustration VCDD452Illustration for book about sibling rivalry and regret. Double page spread depicting the tea party, created in watercolor on paper and scanned to be cleaned up in Photoshop.

Children’s Book IllustrationWhat I Should Have DoneWatercolor and Adobe Photoshop January 2012 Advanced Illustration VCDD452Illustration for children’s book on sibling rivalry and regret, depicting an imaginary mountain trip they wish they had gone on. Double page spread.

Children’s Book IllustrationWhat I Should Have DoneWatercolor and Adobe Photoshop January 2012 Advanced Illustration VCDD452Illustration for sibling rivalry book depicting sisters as friends. Entirely watercolor on paper.

Paintings

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“Beach Castle”

Watercolor on paper30” x 22”Part of the Kids at the Beach series

Painted for greeting cards and poster designs.

“Darling”

Watercolor on wrinkled paper30” x 22”

Part of the Angel series 2008

Created for greeting cards and postersDarling is painted from a photograph of one of my neighbor's children at the age of 3 years.

"Victoria"

Soft pastel on paper 9" x 12”

Portrait of a foreign exchange student, Victoria Ulrich from Sweden, as a gift for her stay here in California. 2010.

Part of the Wrinkled Flowers Series 1999

Tulip Wrap was painted for greeting cards and posters, as part of an experiment with the wrinkled paper effect and flowers. I really loved the way the flowers pop on the wrinkled paper.

"Tulip Wrap" watercolor on wrinkled paper 30" x 22”