Illustrators
Here are a few of our Oregon/Washington illustrators! Be sure to visit their webpages. SCBWI-Oregon and South Washington area members are welcome to join this page
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Andrea Fitcha
Andrea Fitcha has been a freelanceartist since 1993. Working mainly in watercolor and colored pencil, she creates illustrations for children's publications of all kinds. When she's not drawing, she likes to spend time with her husband and two children. She is currently working on her first picture book
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Abigail Marble
Abigail Marble has had her nose buried in one book or another since the day she learned how to read, and has planned to become a children's book illustrator for almost as long.
Abigail was an art major at Brown University, and also studied in the illustration department at Rhode Island School of Design. She subsequently worked as a freelance graphic designer, while continuing to work on illustrations and children's stories. My Secret Bully (written by Trudy Ludwig and published by Tenspeed Press) was published in 2004. Gulmamadak the Great (written by Tamim Ansary and published by Educators' Publishing Service) was published in 2006.
Abigail's current projects include: an unusual counting book; an adventurous bed-time story; and a lively story about a little girl with an out-sized imagination and her very patient grandpa.
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Barbara Herkert
Barbara Herkert is the author and illustrator of Birds in Your Backyard (Dawn Publications, 2001), a nonfiction picture book that introduces children to the wonders of watching birds. She teaches art at an elementary school in Newport, Oregon, and also teaches workshops on writing and illustrating to adults and children.
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Charlene D. DeLage
Charlene has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Oregon and a Masters of Education from Oregon State University. Her illustrations are created with loose brushwork using watercolor, gouache, and ink. She has recently illustrated a children's book series on Pet Care, a series on Plant Care, and a Hans Christian Andersen series. Prior to illustrating children's books, Charlene has exhibited landscape paintings and drawings throughout the Northwest.
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Diana Thewlis
Diana Thewlis was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in the suburbs. Her parents worked for the federal government, her father for the Museum Labs. When she was four years old, her father brought home a wonderful illustrator, Edwin Pearson, to live in the basement. From there the world opened up to her. She and her mentor spent hours eating bread and honey with avocado in the basement while discoursing on art. Her first artistic efforts in school earned her a nearly permanent spot standing in the corner.
Diana holds degrees in Commercial Art and Illustration, and worked as a graphic artist, designer, product illustrator, and technical illustrator before becoming an independent contract illustrator.
Although her primary mediums are watercolor and mixed media, she is comfortable with most other media. Over the years she has created numerous books and illustrations for children, primarily in the educational realm.
Her professional affiliations include the San Francisco Society of Illustrators, the California Watercolor Association, the North West Air Force Artists, and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.
She has been an instructor at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco since 1992, teaching in the Graduate and Illustration Departments. She will continue teaching online from her new home in Vancouver, Washington. Diana has also lectured and taught workshops through different schools and organizations.
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Deborah Alastra
Deborah's website
Deborah's other website
I paint, illustrate children's books, and design Textiles for sales and licensing. I have traveled a lot, have lived in Europe, Mexico, the East Coast and California, but Oregon is my favorite and final....
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Diane Hower
Diane Hower grew up on the shores of Lake Erie and was introduced to photography and art at a very early age. She began working with children in high school and became an art teacher and an art therapist. Her love of children’s books and writing came from her years as an elementary school counselor and raising her own children. Diane now lives in Oregon with her husband, Peter and their two dogs. Stanley, the youngest, is a certified therapy dog that works with Diane in schools.
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Elsa Warnick
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Fran Lee
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Gloria Swan
