Illustration, but one day in downtown Cincinnati I saw two photo studios on the same street, each with the owner’s name plus photography on the door. Originally I worked under the name of Chris Sickels My first illustration commission was in 1995. Handler for the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, created prototype vintage containers for Bath and Body Works and even worked as a secretary at a food staffing agency.Ĭommunication Design with an emphasis in illustration from the Art Academy of Cincinnati. She shows me that curiosity and learning should only grow stronger with age.Įarlier in my life I worked on an asphalt crew, was an art
Mother paints daily, always trying new approaches. Homemade, satirical comics, patent concepts for tire treads and a scene drawn from his sickbed while he laid in traction after doctors broke his bones as a misguided treatment for severe arthritis. I got to hold drawings of his from the early 1900s, including I recently learned of a relative who drew. Relating to those Tom Waits lyrics, “Get behind the mule and plow.” It’s important that you get up every day and get back at it. You have to roll with the punches sometimes things work out in your favor and sometimes they don’t. You have to make hay when the sun is shining, you have to find ways to keep the business relevant with changing
I grew up driving tractors, cultivating corn, helpingĭeliver calves, colts and piglets, and shoveling shit and baling hay on a small family dairy farm of about 500 acres just about an hour from where I am now.Ī kid, but growing up on a small family farm relates very closely to what I do now. “just about anything is fair game” in making his artwork. His remarkable sculptural work is built by hand, using everything from wood, paper, and paint to found objects. He has also created a stop-motion workshop called Full Circle that has traveledĪround the country, most notably to the ICON9 conference in 2016. Winter, that will be published in early 2019. Sickles has illustrated a children’s book called Elvis Is King, written by Jonah His elaborate 3D illustrations have appeared in numerous editorial publications, as well as books and an
Chris Sickelsis an Indiana-based illustrator who publishes his work under the name Red Nose
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