cheryl mendenhall
Winter Website Revamp
It's been snowing and/or sleeting for the past week. I spent much of my creative time revisiting unfinished personal projects in...
Search
cheryl mendenhall
- Jan 1, 2020
Looking Back at 2019
Here’s a slide from my breakout session presentation, Marrying Words and Pictures: What self-published writers need to know about hiring...
9 views
cheryl mendenhall
- Dec 3, 2019
Readers Paradise
January 2019 hit hard. Winter weather and the government shutdown were driving my mad scientist husband stir crazy. So we unboxed the...
18 views
cheryl mendenhall
- Jan 1, 2019
Painting Yeva
I first heard about the One House Project from a Blackrock Center for the Arts email last fall. The Art Watch website described the...
11 views
cheryl mendenhall
- Nov 22, 2017
An Immigrant’s Tale
My mailer image The Hat was inspired by my father’s grandmother Maria, who came to the U.S. in the late 1880s. Times were bleak. Her...
20 views
cheryl mendenhall
- Dec 8, 2016
Illustration in the Holiday Spirit
Over the years I’ve learned to be selective about working for free. It has to be a project I truly care about. One that offers a certain...
22 views
cheryl mendenhall
- Oct 31, 2016
Seeing Faces
Halloween brings out our inclination to see ourselves in the world around us. We impose human faces on twisted tree trunks, old houses,...
2 views
cheryl mendenhall
- Aug 31, 2016
Stylization: Too Much of a Good Thing?
My latest promo card went out this month. An exercise in vintage summertime nostalgia (with a lighthearted nod at global warming), it was...
9 views
cheryl mendenhall
- Apr 29, 2016
Team SCBWI Recap
It always takes me a few weeks (or more) to process the heady experience of attending an SCBWI conference. The highlights of last month’s...
6 views
cheryl mendenhall
- Feb 29, 2016
Leap Year Thoughts
My illustration professor at Art Center College of Design once described the creative life as a sequence of plateaus punctuated by...
1 view
cheryl mendenhall
- Jan 3, 2016
Life With Photoshop
The new year work week starts tomorrow. But first, a look back. #video #Photoshop #digital #creativeprocess
20 views
cheryl mendenhall
- Nov 13, 2015
Of Teams and Cats
When I read the theme for the 2016 MD/DE/WV conference postcard contest I was skeptical. Team SCBWI. Seriously? After all, so much of...
2 views
cheryl mendenhall
- Oct 28, 2015
Why Digital
I usually describe my medium as digital. Or a digital/traditional hybrid. Or computer-rendered art with a hand-made touch. It didn’t...
18 views
cheryl mendenhall
- Oct 6, 2015
What I Did For My Summer Vacation
The leaves are not yet turning, but fall is definitely in the air. Looking back, this was the summer I finished revising and sent out the...
0 views
cheryl mendenhall
- Sep 27, 2015
The Wheels Come Off
Confession time: I was never a natural at activities involving large muscle skills. I didn’t learn to ride a two-wheeler until I was ten....
8 views