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Posted by Kimmy Sophia Brown
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As the song goes, I was strolling through the park one day,
in the merry month of May, (or maybe it was June) visiting the Portland, Maine
Farmer’s Market. As I gathered my
weekly greens and leeks, I came upon a young lady selling her art. A display of
earrings caught my eye – half-dollar-sized discs with pairs of chickadees,
downy woodpeckers, goldfinches and others. Her depictions reminded me of
Beatrix Potter’s work -- real-looking and yet like storybook illustrations at
the same time. I had to have the goldfinches and put them on immediately (of
course, I bought them first!) and went on to receive numerous compliments on
them whenever I wore them. Later I felt inspired to give the goldfinches to a
healer that my husband and I visited. Another Saturday I went back and got the
downy woodpeckers.
Christina has been
drawing and creating whimsical worlds and characters since she was a little kid
-and now enjoys working with children to create their own whimsical worlds through
comics. This summer she is teaching cartooning at Waynflete Summertime Arts Camp for elementary school
children, here in Portland, Maine.
Currently, Christina is an illustrator specializing in works
for children's books, giftware and comics. Christina earned a Bachelor of Fine
Arts in Illustration from the Maine College of Arts in 2005 and since then has
been published internationally with Re-Ment miniatures, Threadless.com, and is
illustrating books for an independent publisher in New York. Her work has also
appeared in Peppermint Magazine in Australia.
Christina has
written and illustrated a comic book adaptation of Little Red Riding hood, and
has illustrated several other books for other authors, including "An
Orphan's Promise", "Anything's Possible", and "Where We
Live", just to name a few.
You can find out more about Christine’s art on her website,
http://www.bluebirdiesinger.etsy.com/
