Maddie Saunders

Maddie’s work deals with human nature, body image, and finding both meaning and humor in life’s mundane moments.

Title: Dinner With Marcy
Caption: Part of an ongoing mixed media comic project.
Description: Ink, colored pencil, and collage.
Title: Happy Girl
Caption: Illustration for a personal project
Description: Digital
Title: banana boy
Caption: Illustration for Costume Design
Description: digital
Title: One
Caption: Illustration from the Children's Book Silly Numbers
Description: Digital
Title: One
Caption: Illustration from the Children's Book Silly Numbers
Description: Digital
Title: Counter
Caption: Illustration for a personal project
Description: Digital
Title: Freddie
Caption: Illustration
Description: Digital
Title: House
Caption: Plein Air
Description: Gouache
Title: Guitar Girl
Caption: Puppet and guitar made for Stop Motion Animation
Description: Clay, Sewn, made with love
Title: Suspicious Girl
Caption: Illustration for a Comic
Description: Brush Pen with Digital Color
Title: Oh Happy Day!
Caption: Illustration and Typography for a Greeting Card
Description: Brush Pen and Digital
Title: Mr. Monkey
Caption: This Mr. Monkey hand puppet is bananas for bananas.
Description: Sewn fleece and cotton.

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HI-HO! I'm Maddie! I was born and raised in bright n' sunny California. I majored in Illustration and fine art and graduated from ArtCenter College of Design in 2017. My work has been shown at galleries throughout LA including Pop Secret Gallery, La Luz De Jesus Gallery, GR2, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, and others. I am skilled in both digital and analog media, including sewing and printmaking. I'm inspired by all things kitsch, retro, and wonky. My work deals with human nature, body image, and finding both meaning and humor in life’s mundane moments.

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Kurt Miller

I’m proud of the relationships I’ve developed over the years working with talented directors and marketing professionals who know the path to success. Computers have given me instant access to an industry of resources, which empower me to create beyond my own imagination and at the same time never let go of my own traditional skills.

Title: The Black Loyalist
Caption: Book cover for National Geographic
Description: This image was created for National Geographic on the history of the Black Loyalists who fought for the British in the American Revolutionary War, the British promised enslaved people their freedom if they ran away from their masters to fight on the side of the British Army. This image was created in 3D max, Poser, Photoshop with a Wacom tablet.
Title: Sword of the South
Caption: Book cover for David Weber published by Baen Books
Description: Fantasy novel
Title: Amazon Legion
Caption: Book cover for Tom Kratman published by Baen Books
Description: Military sci/fi novel
Title: The Hat in the Ring
Caption: Illustration for a board game. Blue Max.
Description: Ace Of Aces. WW1, Western Front. Edward Rickenbacker, the most successful American ace of WW1. He recorded 26 official victories against German aircraft during World War 1 and was awarded the Medal of Honor.
Title: Tuskegee Airmen
Caption: The original image was an alternate history for Baen Books. I convert it to the brave men in WWII
Description: This was the 332nd Fighter Group which had escorted the 15th Air Force from the occupied part of Italy. These fighter escorted the bombers into Austria and over the border to Germany. This cover art though was originally commissioned for a book of an alternate history called Russian Amerika by Stoney Compton and then I convert it into this historical image of the brave Tuskegee Airmen.
Title: Liberty: 1748
Caption: Book cover art for Robert Conroy
Description: An alternate history of the American Revolution.
Title: A Long Time Until Now
Caption: Book cover for Michael Z Williamson.
Title: Battle Over Kamino
Description: Star Wars science fiction battle on a ocean planet of Kamino.
Title: Provincia Romana
Caption: Illustration work for a board game
Title: X-WingFullThrottle
Description: The old version and new X-Wing.
Title: Aliens-vs-Halo

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Hunter X. Huang

Hunter is both very American and very Chinese. He wishes to show the world both of his Eastern and Western influences in his illustrations and designs.

He has done freelance work on feature films, comics, children’s books, apps, and science journals. His work has been shown in a multitude of exhibits, including the New York Society of Illustrators.

Hunter is based in sunny southern California. He likes mythologies and animals.

Title: Opera Singer
Title: Three Pures
Title: Xuan Yuan
Title: Shen Nong
Title: Lord of Dao and Virtue
Title: Lord of Primordial Beginning
Title: Lord of Numinous Treasure
Title: Maya Forest
Title: Hua Forest

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Mark Pestana

I have been inspired throughout my life by the beauty of nature, our planet’s place in the universe, and the great explorers of land, sea, air and space. I have an optimistic vision of humanity’s expansion beyond Earth into the solar system. I attempt to convey emotion, wonder, and excitement of these subjects through my art. Not being one to watch from the sidelines, though, I pursued advanced education in engineering and sciences, and fulfilled my dream of becoming a professional pilot, in parallel with the pursuit of expressive art. From my first person experiences of flying around our planet, in hostile environments ranging from military combat to flying hurricane research missions, as well as being involved with human spaceflight operations, I capture the essence of flight in my art. I’m also captivated by the imaginations of other artists…those who speculate and write about the future of humanity, and those who produce this visual imagery through film.

Title: NASA Hangar 276
Caption: NASA T-38 supersonic jets sit in hangar 276 at Ellington Field, Texas.
Title: Leo, Lona, and the Beaut' of Butte
Caption: Lt Leo Evans, WW II fighter pilot, with the aircraft he flew in the Pacific campaigns.
Description: He named his P-51 after his wife, Lona, and named his P-47 after his father, a Montana politician, known as the "Beaut' of Butte".
Title: SAFER Flight Test
Caption: An astronaut tests the maneuvering backpack that will save his life if he goes adrift from the Space Station
Title: Shuttle Columbia Convoy
Caption: The Space Shuttle Columbia, after a sunrise landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California, awaits the convoy that will ensure the safe recovery of the crew and the vehicle.
Title: Home Base
Caption: Someday people will know their base on the Moon as "home", and the distant Earth will be known as the origin of their ancestors.
Title: Shuttle Patches by Pestana
Caption: These are the 9 Space Shuttle mission patches which were designed by Mark Pestana for the astronaut crews.
Title: The Dawn of Hypersonic Flight
Caption: An X-15 rocket plane is prepared for a research flight to the edge of space.
Description: During the 1960s, at Edwards AFB, CA, test pilots were carried aloft by a B-52 "mothership", then released to fly their X-15 rocket plane to the edge of space and speeds over 6 times the speed of sound. This research lead to the Space Shuttle design.
Title: Central Coast
Caption: California's rocky central coast.
Title: Fog Lifting
Caption: A float plane departs into a misty morning.
Title: Chinese Cabin
Caption: A remnant of the California Gold Rush in the 1850s withers in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada range.
Title: Lower Yosemite Falls
Caption: Yosemite Falls feeds a tributary of California's Merced River.

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