An Introduction

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Welcome to my online portfolio-blog! Warning: there is a hodge-podge of items on this site, but it is to serve a particular purpose for working in the commercial consumer product realm. Keep in mind, non-PD viewers, designing a product is about understanding a specific demographic and satisfying a specific need/want.

*There are different areas in which I work. There is a small sampling in each area divided into 4 postings entitled:

- Illustration: a sampling
- Accidental Product Design and Development

- Everything Imprintable

- Pattern and Print

(Be sure to go through all posts by clicking on 'older posts' at the bottom of each page)

After twenty years of product design and development, I have worked in different styles out of sheer necessity, but as an editorial illustrator and painter, I have a definite way of expressing myself on paper or canvas. There is a small representation within the 'Illustration' posting.

At present, I am working on developing my own product concepts, licensing images, three picture books and painting.

(FYI: Since this is a professional outlet, I am not enabling the ability to leave comments. At this point, I have sent out the URL selectively and those individuals know how to contact me directly, but also feel free to contact me through the email address listed below....... )

Thank you for stopping by!

Please stop by periodically for updates

and new works. (Beginning with April, I

will be adding new postings by the first

day of each month.)

Patricia Connor Smith

P.C.SmithArtworks@gmail.com

This blog is dedicated to my dear friends, Gilda and Shawn...I will miss you always!

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Illustration

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in the beginning

All I ever wanted was to be an illustrator from the time before I knew what an illustrator was, I would draw on the cardboards from the back of my father’s laundered shirts and tell the stories aloud to go with my art. I remember being excited when a fresh batch of shirts arrived, my first ‘hot press’ surface.

there's a place where dreams are born

and grow

imagination takes flight

magic to do

travels begin

(this piece was in Illustrators' Annual...executed as a promotional piece for a pre-press company)

Hi Claire!

(as required, this piece was executed completely using B & S student grade colored pencils for an ad poster for the same colored pencils..)

on earth

This as my first book cover! (actually, my only book cover so far!). I designed and illustrated, plus hand lettered it.....The author liked it so much that he asked to purchase the original art. (This story was turned into a movie.) I LOVED this assignment! I loved interpreting a manuscript and trying to capture the essence of the story (with some mystery) by way of an illustration.