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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Janet Tarjan Erl
Janet’s professional art career spans over thirty four years. Her
artistic accomplishments cross over both fine art and commercial
illustrating.
As an illustrator, Janet has won international awards for her work,
and her list of clientele includes noted companies such as 20th Century Fox.
Her illustration genre includes computer game covers, T-shirts, greeting
cards, scientific illustrations, patents, logos, posters, science and
natural history museum exhibits, and more. She illustrates in watercolor,
oil, gouache, air brush, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Corel Draw.
As a fine arts artist she has exhibited in over fifty noteworthy
venues including one person shows, group shows, and juried competitions in
museums, arts organizations, and galleries. Her work is in private,
corporate, and museum collections including the Leigh Yawkey Woodsen Art
Museum, the Tucson Museum of Art, and numerous other museums. She is also a
Signature Member of the National Watercolor Society (NWS) and a juried
member of the Watercolor Society of Oregon (WSO).
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Johanna Wright
Johanna Wright was born and raised in Eugene, Oregon in the shadow of some very big and beautiful trees. She received her BA from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA (1998), in puppetry, and childrenÕs books, and moved to Brooklyn shortly after graduation.
Johanna spent nine years in New York, selling her paintings on the streets of Manhattan. During this time on the sidewalk, she honed her illustration skills, ate way too many hot dogs, sold thousands of original paintings, and appeared in numerous magazines and publications. She went on to assist Sarah Oliphant, painting large scale backdrops for photography and film. These two experiences helped Johanna to form the illustration style that she has today.
These days Johanna lives in Portland, Oregon where she spends most of her days illustrating, playing the ukulele, and searching for Sasquatch.
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Kim Malek
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Katrina Fowler
Doodling in class is where it all started. Katrina would draw friends, teachers and anything else that caught her fancy. She dreamed of being an artist that gave the viewer an experience to remember. That dream lead her to the prestigious University of Marylhurst in Oregon where she graduated with honors with a BFA in figurative oil painting. Her desire to be innovative and find new ways to express herself led her to learn multimedia arts including Flash, Photoshop and 3D animation
Katrina lives in Portland with her husband and beautiful twin daughters. Her girls inspire her work and have lead her to develop a fun and whimsical style. She now devotes her time to a variety of creative endeavors that make her heart sing and bring smiles to children young and old. She hopes that her art will give others an experience they'll never forget.
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Kayeri Akweks
Kayeri Akweks is Upper Mohawk, enrolled at Six Nations Reserve, Ontario, Canada, and born in the United States. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Drawing and a Masters of Education Administration. Kayeri has taken national drawing awards at The Red Cloud Indian Art Show, been cited in Art in America, and participated in group and solo shows. She has taught American Indian Art History and Drawing at the college and university level. Her creative process includes working to try to reveal Native American people in their sacred beauty in such a way as to inspire Native Americans and others to internally recognize and reveal their own core beauty.
Kayeri illustrates Native American and Celtic based texts, history, and myth or cultural tradition. "I enjoy the research, reading the background texts, and staring at museum artifacts, old photos, etc. that are needed to allow words to come to accurate visual life. Story is holy stuff. Each of us is making a story every day."
Kayeri believes that the energy of all living things are our guides to correction action. To follow the Original Instructions of life is what offers balance and the feeling of well-being. "If I can portray the joy and importance of listening to the Mother Earth then I will have done my job. This is my life's work and I am very grateful for it."
Kayeri is currently illustrating the children's book "Native American Games" by Joseph and James Bruchac though Fulcrum Publishing, to be released in September 2000. She is a full-time freelance illustrator.
- Linda Dalal Sawaya
Linda Dalal Sawayais an artist, teacher, writer, cook, and lover of books who lives in Portland, Oregon. She has illustrated two children's books, and has written and published her popular cookbook, Alice's Kitchen: Traditional Lebanese Cooking, featuring the recipes of the healthy foods she grew up eating made by her mother, Alice, and grandmother, Dalal. There's even one recipe by her dad---his famous tomato salad with mint and garlic! Linda has illustrated and designed book covers and magazine articles. She loves to paint in watercolor, acrylic, oil, egg tempera, and mixed media using collage, and photo transfers! She is currently writing a story for a picture book that she will illustrate and teaches art classes in her studio.
- Lisa Kaser
Lisa Kaser is a native Oregonian who works as a full-time artist out her home studio in Portland. She holds a BFA in Fiber from the University of Oregon but drawing was introduced to her at an early age through her father who went to the Museum Art School and taught art in the public schools, and that is the medium that provides her primary income. Lisa has worked in acrylics, pen and ink and water color, but her favorite and most distinct style is a combination of collage and direct water color combined with text. She has participated in the 2008 Illustrator's Exhibit at the Bologna Children's Book Fair and is just finishing illustrating her first children's book, The Three Little Pigs through the Korean publisher, AGA World, which will be published the end of 2008.
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Marty Jones
- Mike Lawrence
Mike has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking from the University of Oregon and is a freelance illustrator who has been published by Dark Horse Comics. Prior to that, Mike was awarded the grand prize for the Illustrators of the Future contest, a competition judged by artists including Will Eisnerand Leo and Diane Dillon. Mike works primarily in charcoal, watercolor, acrylic, and Photoshop. Mike is represented by Kelly Sonnack of the Andrea Brown Literary Agency.