(semi-retired) Semi-Serious Artist

I always wanted to be an artist when I grew up. It took the growing up part to realize I'd always been one. I've learned tricks and techniques along the way, but that thing that goes, "Wow, I wanna make that!" has always been there.
I've been drawing ever since I can remember, starting with the dirt in my parents' front yard and finding my slot in school as the class artist. By college I had dabbled with painting and sculpture, and then a friend forced me to pick up watercolors and use them. My husband volunteered my drawing abilities to a florist who needed ad illustrations, and having done that awhile, I branched out to a few other local businesses. I won a logo contest for a stationery store and then pestered them until they hired me as their graphic-artist-in-training and eventually I became their graphics department. I started Semi-Serious Artist in 1996.
I started a Possum Store several years ago. On occasion I get requests for the cards etc., and the answer is yes, I can can probably still make any of the stuff I used to have in the Store. And then some. For example, see this painting of the lady about to grab a baby possum below? Got a request to make that into cards, so I did. It's my current favorite. Also did a non-Christmas version of Resistance is Futile on the Possums page. Hey, I can do anything. Email me in that handy little box below.
So...enough about me. What did you come here for?

Business Cards...

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I put business cards first because judging from the fat book of business cards I've done over the years, that's apparently what I do most. Everything from simple black and white to fancy full color double-sided cards.

Print Design & Illustration

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Letterhead, envelopes, post cards, brochures, menus, greeting cards, invitations, announcements, labels, bumper stickers, signs...

Paintings...

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Before it can be printed, it's got to be designed. Logos, typesetting, page layout...all that stuff. People have also commissioned me to do fine art. Which I've done a fine job of. This painting was selected by a wine company to be used on a limited edition merlot.

Books...

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Believe it or not, I have written some books. But only two of them are available to buy. Go to www.amazon.com and look up Charlotte Terhune. While you're there, you'll see the nine books my mom has written so far, which I edited and did all the pre-press work for, including the pretty covers.

...and of course...Possums

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I have been known to have actual, live possums in my house. On purpose. The first one was an injured baby possum my son brought home, and we weren't even sure what it was. I found a possum rescue organization called the National Opossum Society (www.opossum.org) and became a member.

I used to have a Possum Store online to benefit NOS. If you're looking for that, sorry, it's gone thanks to the mysterious catastrophic disappearance of the beautiful website my son built me and my own web design ineptitude (before discovering www.weebly.com) along with complications from the postal and internal revenue services. But I still love possums.

The artwork to the left was supposed to be an illustration for a book by another author...but I flaked out and ended up not doing more than this one. : (

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