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Latest Additions – Illustration: September 17th – 23rd

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Illustration of woman standing in living room.

Merrilee Liddiard grew up in a splendid home filled with delightful artistic chaos and ample creativity. She spent most of her youth making things like lions out of oatmeal boxes and drawing little humans or animals and telling the tales that went along with them. She is known in the blog world for her love of kids’ design, toys, and DIY crafts via her popular blog mermagblog.com. She has authored and illustrated the book PLAYFUL: Fun Projects to Make With + For Kids and sells many of her illustrations and designs as prints and paper play things in her online shop. Merrilee has also started an illustrated series via her instagram account @mer_mag, where she shares her popular little bit stories (#littlebitsbymer) and sometimes asks her audience to help tell the tale with her! (#tellthetalewithmer, #tinytravelertilda). When not drawing or creating things for her three children, Merrilee loves to travel, wander museums, sew, thrift, read, and nap.

 

Pétur Atli Antonsson Crivello was born and raised in Iceland by his Icelandic mother and French father. After graduating from The Academy of Art University, with a BFA in illustration, Petur worked in the gaming industry for a year. Currently doing freelance illustration work for various clients and companies around the world, his past clients include Disney Interactive, Disney Playdom, HarperCollins Publishers, Greenwillow Books, Penguin-Random House Publishers, Forlagið Publishers, Plain Vanilla, Booyah, Baozou, CloudKid Studios, Lazy Town, Freyja Chocolates, and The Icelandic Center for Educational Materials.  
Pieter Van Eenoge graduated from the Sint-Lucas School for Arts and Science in Ghent, Belgium with a degree in illustration. Pieter has illustrated for numerous clients in Belgium and the UK, including the Guardian, British supermarket chain Waitrose, the Flemish Public Library, and Europe's largest book fair, Boekenbeurs 2011. His work has appeared in The Big Book of Illustration Ideas 2 (Duncan Baird Publishers), Fresh 3: Cutting Edge Illustration (Daab Media) and 200 Best Illustrators Worldwide (Lurzer GmbH). He recently received a Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators 55 for a piece he did for the Bokrijk Open Air Museum. Other honors include a Gold Medal from the 3x3 Pro Show, an Award of Excellence from Communication Arts and the 2012 Boekenpluim Prize, an annual prize awarded to books featuring exceptional illustrations.  
Ron Wilson is an experienced illustrator specializing in information graphics, vector illustrations, diagrams, cutaways, icons, charts and maps, black-and-white in vector woodcut style.  
Mike Lester is a cartoonist, illustrator, and writer. For more than 25 years, he's created images, illustrations, packaging, and commercials for the ad campaigns of many major corporations, as well as illustrations for many national magazines, newspapers, books, games, gifts, and licensed products. He's written and illustrated numerous children's books including A IS FOR SALAD, named to the New York Times Top Ten list in 2000. Mike is also the creator of the daily comic strip, "Mike du Jour,” which is syndicated by the Washington Post News Service and Syndicate.  
Mina Price is an American illustrator and designer. She has a particular affinity for character design and lifestyle illustration, or basically any project that allows her to draw interesting people in cool outfits. She enjoys finding ways to seamlessly marry traditional and digital art, going from scanner to Photoshop, to printer to paint and back again. Mina graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art with a BFA in illustration. Now she is a freelance illustrator and designer who does everything from editorial to publishing work and all that's in between. She's done work with the Boston Globe, Random House, OC Weekly, Muzzy Lane Software, Macmillan, the Dallas Observer, and Sourcebooks. When she is not drawing, Mina can frequently be found baking things with lots of sugar or getting way too emotional over a good book.  
Monica Klasa (Hey Monica, Inc.) has been a closeted doodler for all of her advertising career. She always secretly dreamed that she would sneak out and draw for a living, as it makes her the happiest.  
Maghen Brown is an illustrator, artist, and designer who draws wherever she goes as she observes the world and records her impressions and experiences. By working mainly on location, she captures the life and energy of the moment. Somehow she manages to translate the chaos, motion, and insanity of everyday life and organizes it into a 2-dimensional drawing that transports the viewer to the event and time. Maghen blends documentary, reportage-style observations, with personal experience, perception, and culture to create a visual statement. Maghen's honest, intelligent, and personal work has been commissioned for editorial, advertising, textile and fashion, as well as shown in multiple galleries. Maghen received a BFA in illustration from Pratt Institute and also had the honor of studying with the late David J. Passalacqua. Maghen currently lives in Brooklyn, New York surrounded by the energy and excitement which inspires her.  
David Miles grew up in Michigan and went out East for school and to work for 10 years or so. Philly and New York taught him a lot both, academically and personally, so when he finally moved back to Michigan, he was different inside. After a brief time using his skills in a local ministry, David moved on to help his friend and mentor complete one of his dreams. Now he is living in Kalamazoo, Michigan and is pursuing his own dreams through freelance illustration and loving his wife.  
Steven Mach started out as a designer at Hallmark and worked for several design studios and agencies before branching out on his own. He strives to produce innovative, fun designs within the bounds of brand identity. He also creates surface designs for clients like Papyrus and American Greetings. His illustration work ranges from editorial to children's publishing. He is also know for whimsical maps.