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
Email robink at scbwior.com with a bio and one JPEG image (which may be resized).
- Ryan Loghry
Ryan Loghry is a freelance illustrator with a distinctive and pleasing style. Ryan has recently written and illustrated The Searcher and is currently shopping for a publisher. Ryan graduated from the Seattle Art Institute in 1989 with an associate degree in visual communications. Ryan has worked as an artist/animator, web designer, and is now pursuing a career in freelance illustration.
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Robin Koontz
Robin works full-time as a writer and illustrator, and also serves as the volunteer regional advisor for the SCBWI Oregon. A few years ago she tossed the watercolors and learned to paint, sort of, using Corel Painter and Photoshop. This image is from the "Furlock and Muttson Mysteries," a series of early readers released in January 2010.
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Sheila Bailey
Sheila Bailey works primarily with watercolors, but is equally comfortable in the realm of digital illustration. Whether from the drafting table or the Wacom tablet,her work has an unmistakably natural quality. Prior to settling in the Northwest with her husband Stephen, Sheila was a designer and painter for Hallmark, Inc. Later, she became a featured designer and artist for Will Vinton Studios. Sheila Bailey, who published formerly under the name Sheila Lucas, has been writing and illustrating children's literature for over 6 years. When she's away from her drafting table, Sheila enjoys gardening, tending to her Koi pond and hanging out with her four legged pals.
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Suzan Noyes
Suzan Noyes has exhibited fine art in numerous solo, group and juried shows over the last thirty years. She was a graphics and commercial artist in Los Angeles (art production and illustration), and has fifteen years experience in interior faux finishing, decorative painting and murals.
She is associated with Taku Graphics in Alaska and exhibits her fine art at Donterra Artworks in Sisters, OR. Suzan is a member of SCBWI and an aspiring children's book author/illustrator.
Visit her website: www.suzannoyesart.com.
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Teresa Meier
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Thomas James
thomasjamesillustration@hotmail.com
Thomas James is an experienced and creative Illustrator fluent in a variety of styles. He works with pen and ink, oil paint, colored pencil, and digital mediums. His recent projects have ranged from Young Adult Books, Album Covers, Logos, and Editorial Illustration.