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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


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


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


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


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

cheryl mendenhall
Jan 3, 2016


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


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


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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