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ARTIST PROFILE - Cindy Coleman
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When I was in art school, I had a season pass to a local animal refuge. I spent lots of time there, drawing spider monkeys, crocodiles, and lingering among the flamingos. But of all the animals that I drew, the ones I drew the most were the ducks. Just plain old domestic white ducks. I couldn’t help myself. I’d follow them around, and they’d quack at me from time to time. Years later when I finally broke down and bought a digital camera, I took hundreds of pictures of the ducks - I found them incredibly entertaining. It wasn’t until someone said to me “you know, you should paint ducks” that the light bulb finally went on.
Of course, painting the ducks led to painting other animals -I love to try to capture the personality of each one, their own unique style. I have always collected random “stuff” so incorporating my found objects as collage items into my paintings has been both a learning experience and great fun. I now go out of my way to find interesting items that might spark an idea for a painting. |
Cindy Coleman and is a freelance graphic designer/illustrator living in southwest Colorado. Originally from rural Missouri, she graduated from Ringling College of Art & Design in Sarasota, FL in 1999, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration.
After college Cindy interned at Darcy, Masius, Benton & Bowles advertising agency in St. Louis, then went on to work at CNN Design in Atlanta, GA creating on-air graphics and redesigning the map look for the network. After 7 years of fighting traffic in Atlanta she and her husband Ken called it quits and started looking for work in the mountains. Ken landed a job in Durango, CO and they moved in Oct. 2006. Cindy worked briefly for The Durango Herald newspaper as an advertising designer until deciding to branch out on her own, doing freelance design and illustration.
Cindy regularly illustrates for local magazines, and published her first children’s book in the spring of 2008 entitled Mommy, Do You Love Me? Last summer she jumped back into painting and has been enjoying it ever since. Cindy paints in acrylics on varnished scrapbook paper, incorporating found items as collage elements into her work. Twenty of her pieces were featured in the Creativity Festivity Exhibit at the Durango Arts Center in April. Her main theme has been animals but she is starting to explore other ideas. You can view Cindy’s work at www.duckgirlart.com.
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Cindy Coleman Bio
Education
1995-1999 Ringling College of Art and Design - Sarasota, FL
Bachelor of Fine Arts with a major in Illustration
Selected Work Experience
Dec. 06-May 08 The Durango Herald - Durango, CO
Graphic Designer for Advertising at the newspaper. Designing daily ads and special sections.
Jan. 00-Oct. 06 CNN Design - Atlanta, GA
Senior Artist for CNN domestic, creating daily fullscreen graphics for on-air production, including the afternoon show “CNN Newsroom”, collaborating directly with writers, producers, & reporters. In 2005 I redesigned the map look for the entire CNN network.
Illustration Clients/Exhibits
April 2009 Creativity Festivity - Durango Arts Center
One of four artists selected for animal show
Jan.-Mar. 2009 Sideshow Gallery
Year of the Ox poster featured at Sideshow Gallery - Dolores, CO
Dec. 2008 Illustrator for Mountain Gazette Magazine
Nov.-Dec. 2008 Durango Arts Center Holiday Art Ole
Linoleum prints, paintings, and notecards selected for holiday show
Nov. 2008 Climate Change - the Impact, European Branch Show
"Global Warming" illustration in Webists' show - Kempten, Bavaria, Germany
October 2008 Cortez Cultural Center
2 duck paintings exhibited for annual juried show
August 2008 Durango Arts Center - Local Expressions Gallery
Play posters on exhibit with Dave Sipe’s woodworking creations
March 2008 Illustrated Children’s Book “Mommy, Do You Love Me?”
16 page children’s book, published in March 2008 by PublishAmerica
March 2008 Arts Perspective magazine
Illustration featured in magazine and included in traveling exhibition Drawing, Drawing, Drawn
2007-2008 Illustrator for Inside Outside Southwest magazine
2007: March/April, June/July, July/August, September/October issues
2008: April/May issue; 2009: May issue
Media Experience
Computer Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign; Curious World Maps, Quark XPress, Liberty Paint; some knowledge of Dreamweaver, Flash, & After Effects
Traditional Oil paint, acrylic, collage, colored pencil, charcoal, chalk pastel, watercolor, pen & ink, linoleum cuts, printmaking, and various other media
Member of Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators
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