I am a Mac-Addict from way back, and always work with a Wacom Tablet in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Painter, Alias Sketchbook Pro, Adobe InDesign, Premiere, and whatever other program happens to move me. I am currently all about the Adobe Creative Cloud 2017 in addition to Toon Boom Harmony for Animation.
I grew up in a beautiful dream, surrounded by a white house with a white picket fence, three older siblings and a wonderful mother and father who loved me. Every room of our little house was filled with books of every kind, manuscripts, musical instruments, radios, record players, art supplies, decks of cards, boxed games, and my father’s oil paintings. A joyfully creative chaos.
After college, in my 20s and 30s, I was a type designer and graphic artist by day, and a singer/songwriter at night. I sang back-up in big original rock bands, and was the lead singer in a little tragically hip alternative band in the Boston area. My day job kept growing until I became the Worldwide Creative Director for my division of AGFA. This was a great job, but very demanding. Crazy hours, big budgets, impossible deadlines, printer’s proofs, trade shows and magazine ads. I loved it. My alternative band with my husband Michael was doing pretty well on mp3.com, and we were having songs picked up on network television both domestically and internationally. All was well with the world.
When we had our first child, I put music on the back burner, and shifted focus from the high-pressure advertising world to the highly creative world of children. I co-wrote and illustrated a couple of children’s books and built up a thriving in-house freelance illustration and graphics business while I watched my kids grow into fine young men.
Now that the boys are older, I have ramped up my contract business to include Packaging & Product Design, and Illustration & Animation.