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From My Brain to the Page!
I really love it when I have an image or an idea in my mind and I can get it exactly as I imagine it onto a piece of paper and into the world without a glitch! Believe me, this is a rare occurrence. Usually it takes me a few drafts, centimeters from my eraser,…
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Road trip greeting card
One of my fellow volunteers at God’s Love We Deliver, Jicky, has been planning to leave on a year-long, cross-country road trip this month and another fellow volunteer asked if I would create a custom card for her send-off party that the rest of the volunteers could sign. Luckily, Jicky had already e-mailed me a…
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I’ve been forced into a transition of sorts, my day-job/perma-lance gig has cut back on the amount of hours they need me to be on schedule each month, which is really hurting my income. Of course, I am glad to still have some kind of income but it definitely makes me nervous, knowing I will…
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Park Slope Reader ad
Every few months, I have a couple of restaurant review illustrations in the Park Slope Reader, a free, local publication available in my neighborhood in Brooklyn. In lieu of payment for my most recent work for them I asked for ad space for The Nancydraws Shop in the Winter/Holiday issue. That issue hit the streets…
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Link to more from the collage workshop
Here is the link to more pictures of the collages created during the workshop with Hanoch Piven on 11/10/09:http://www.drawger.com/piven/
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My creation from the workshop with Hanoch Piven at the Society of Illustrators 11.10.09
I was lucky enough to attend a workshop given by illustrator, Hanoch Piven, (www.pivenworld.com) last Tuesday, at the Society of Illustrators in New York. Mr. Piven creates striking yet simple images with objects and is well-known for his celebrity and pop culture caricatures. The evening began with a brief slide show of his portfolio examples,…
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Here’s another Halloween costume photo that I found. I believe this was senior or junior year of high school? I don’t think I had a name for this one but I know that I really wanted the white make-up on half of my face to be in the shape of a quarter moon! This was…
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Hooray, Halloween!
I was thinking last night, about how inspiring Halloween is to me. I often come up with an idea early, maybe in mid-August. This year inspiration didn’t hit until a few of weeks ago and I’m finally going to take action this weekend to get started on gathering the supplies that I need. Elaine and…
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Great News! Prints for sale on Etsy.com!
Hooray! I goal I set for myself in May has now come to fruition! I have an Etsy.com store to sell prints of my illustrations, and whatever other handmade things I might create in the future. I just finished posting all of my current items for sale. Thanks to Mom & Dad for helping out…
Art, Writing, and Marketing by Nancy C. Sampson
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