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long time ago in a galaxy far away, my third grade
teacher, Miss Kokamei, told me I had a great imagination.
She encouraged me to draw and paint but said it was
my imagination that set me apart. |
I took Miss Kokamei's advice to draw and paint,
took art classes, learned art techniques from my
Grandfather, grew up, married, raised four terrific
kids, moved frequently to lots of interesting places,
had odd jobs, took more art classess, and finally
settled in the cool little city of Frederick, Maryland,
a place full of fabulous graphic design and marketing
firms as well as a rich fine arts community.
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My first ADDY - it's a GOLD!
2008 Silver ADDY for Illustration
2007 Judge's Choice Award
2007 Gold ADDY for Illustration
2006 Two Silver ADDYs for Illustration
2005 Gold ADDY for Illustration
2004 Gold ADDY for Illustration
Illustration chosen for inclusion in 2004 American
Graphics Design Awards.
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In 2002 I started doing what I always wanted to do with my art, which was to
illustrate - tell stories with pictures.
I feel like the luckiest person in
the world, I have a super family, live in a dream city with grandchildren within
walking distance, and my job is my dream job.
As an adult, I've wondered if Manoa Valley was really as magical as I remembered
or a product of my imagination. Not long ago my husband and I visited and found
that my family had lived in a rain forest, my brothers and I had walked to school
in bare feet, there was a waterfall at one end of our street/trail and author
Robert Louis Stevenson's hidewaway "Little Grass House" was at the
other, there were flowers that bloomed only at night, the mountains did rise
straight up from the backyard of our house, and, best of all, a rainbow did appear
every day over the valley.
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