After a months-long search with many qualified applicants, and a lot of talent, we can finally introduce to you our new illustrator: Megan Amoss! A warm thanks goes out to all the applicants that participated: we saw far more great work, passion, spunk, and style than we had even hoped for.
A significant amount of time was spent weighing each illustrator and their work, and making the choice was difficult among so much talented applicants, but in the end Megan came out convincingly on top. She has all of the qualities of a great illustrator, but what set her apart was her individual style that speaks so clearly to the intangibles of art and beauty.
Her audition piece speaks for her better than I can. (We can’t share with you what she was illustrating, but we can show you her audition piece.):
From her bio: Megan Amoss is a Baltimore, MD illustrator and musician. In her spare time, Megan enjoys botany, reading, making websites, and playing chamber music. She occasionally returns library books on time. Her website is meganamoss.com.
Megan is going to be taking over the online illustrations for a time while Anatole and Lacey work on illustrating our Fall print publication, Documenting the Unseen. We’re very excited to be working with her.
Today, her first illustration was published for Christopher Hoitash’s “The Crossroads“. Make sure to check out the fine job she did, and of course read the latest piece too!
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Peter Atkinson said:
Just one word can describe that picture: Wow. Truly detailed beauty.
September 2, 2008 @ 8:00 am
leafless said:
A remarkable sketch! Well-deserved.
September 5, 2008 @ 1:02 pm