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Illustration Annual 48

July 2007 Sixteen Dollars (U.S.) www.commarts.com

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Advertising 1 (series) Cathie Bleck, illustrator Chris Austopchuk/Michelle Holme, art directors Brandi Carlile/Sony BMG Music Entertainment, clients CD booklet for Brandi Carlile The Story. Various sizes, scratchboard.

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Books 1 (series) Chris Sheban, illustrator David Saylor, art director Arthur A. Levine Books, publisher From Catching the Moon by Myla Goldberg.

“When the old woman began to fish at night under the watching moon, the fishermen shook their heads, she’d never catch anything that way. But the old fisherwoman was wilier than they knew. The waves had risen to take bites out of all the fishing shacks, and what she was hoping to catch was the person who controlled the tides, the man in the moon. A book that explores the unlikely friendship between a salty old woman and the sweetest man in the night sky, Catching the Moon shows the unexpected pleasures to be found when people come together.” Various sizes, watercolor and colored pencils.

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For Sale 1 (series) Marc Burckhardt, illustrator/client Images from a recent show of new paintings at Mendenhall Sobieski Gallery, Pasadena, California, dealing with social and political themes. Various sizes, acrylic and oil on wood.

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© Jimmy Collins

Erica Shires

Location: Brooklyn, New York, www. ericashires.com and www.virtutalent.com.

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Duration: Three

years, but I have been photographing most of my life.

Staff: Just me, and the freelancers I hire to do specific jobs.

Education: BFA in media arts from Pratt Institute. My focus was on photography with a minor in art history.

Cultural Influences: Jimmy and Allen and roadtrippin’ with them. Foreign travel, New York City, the art scene, coffee at Mud, the East Village, old children’s books, Vladimir Nabokov, Michel Gondry and anything creepy.

I shoot on location, so that varies. When I am working at home, my office is a loft space on the fourth floor of a century-old brownstone. My desk is surrounded by flat files and stacks, stacks and more stacks of art/fashion magazines.

There are photos and torn-out images for inspiration tacked up everywhere. I have a nice big computer monitor for Photoshop, a back door leading out to a fire escape with amazing views of Manhattan for morning coffee and the roof for sunset cocktails.

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Philosophy: Have fun, keep experimenting and be forever thankful.

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