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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...

cheryl mendenhall
Feb 15, 2021
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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...

cheryl mendenhall
Jan 1, 2020
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Readers Paradise
January 2019 hit hard. Winter weather and the government shutdown were driving my mad scientist husband stir crazy. So we unboxed the...

cheryl mendenhall
Dec 3, 2019
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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...

cheryl mendenhall
Jan 1, 2019
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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...

cheryl mendenhall
Nov 22, 2017
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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...

cheryl mendenhall
Dec 8, 2016
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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,...

cheryl mendenhall
Oct 31, 2016
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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...

cheryl mendenhall
Aug 31, 2016
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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...

cheryl mendenhall
Apr 29, 2016
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Leap Year Thoughts
My illustration professor at Art Center College of Design once described the creative life as a sequence of plateaus punctuated by...

cheryl mendenhall
Feb 29, 2016
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Life With Photoshop
The new year work week starts tomorrow. But first, a look back. #video #Photoshop #digital #creativeprocess

cheryl mendenhall
Jan 3, 2016
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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...

cheryl mendenhall
Nov 13, 2015
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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...

cheryl mendenhall
Oct 28, 2015
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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...

cheryl mendenhall
Oct 6, 2015
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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....

cheryl mendenhall
Sep 27, 2015
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