My crazy story and how to make art your job

From 16:15 to 18:15 at St. James Church

Join me as I tell my story as a drugged out teen to the high school teachers who changed my life to the loss of my father that allowed me to go to art school completely free to landing my first job in NYC as a 20 year old to working 40 years as a professional artist. What you really need most is not just drawing advice or tips but rather how to think and move and grow as an artist. In this workshop I will certainly unpack my drawing techniques and how I design and build my characters, but I will leave a large amount of time available to talk about how to focus more on how I think as an artist and how to get that first job and become a team player. Also, how to succeed and grow as an artist and “get awesome!” I speak from 40 years of experience and tons of frustrations after working in storyboards for 35 years until 2015 when I started making and selling the art I really wanted to make. I look forward to talking about the things that move and motivate us. Plenty of Q and A time.

Thomas Fluharty

Thomas Fluharty’s work has been featured on covers for Mad magazine, Der Spiegel, and Time Magazine, who gave the cover to the National Portrait Gallery’s permanent collection. His work is notably featured for The Weekly Standard, for whom he has painted over 100 covers. Other clients have included People Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Sports Illustrated, The Village Voice, CocaCola, and The New York Times and Disney. Fluharty’s work has received national recognition from the Society of Illustrators in New York and Los Angeles and Communication Arts Illustration annuals. He won a gold medal from Spectrum Fantastic Art for his depiction of Hillary Clinton. His work is also in the personal collections of Astronaut and Senator John Glenn, Pat Boone, Naomi Judd, the late movie director Robert Altman and Hellboys Mike Mignola.

Fluharty loves working with students all over the world teaching online with Schoolism.com where he teaches drawing and painting. He is happily married to the love of his life Kristi, has five amazing daughters, and one cute little cavalier spaniel named Biddy.

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