Peter has lived in and around New York his whole life. He studied at the private studio of Andrew Reiss, at The Art Students League with Harvey Dinnerstein, at L'Ecole Albert Dufois with Ted Seth Jacobs, and earned an MFA in illustration at Syracuse University. He is an illustrator and book designer and teaches painting. His work can be seen at www.drawger.com/cusack and www.illoz.com/cusack

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Paola grew up in Ecuador and Colombia. She studied visual arts in Medellin, Colombia, and took some short courses in Sydney, Australia. She is currently living in Sydney, where, she says,"Mainly I live as an artist, but sometimes I have to be kitchen-hand, babysitter, waitress, model for fellow artists and practically every day job I can lay my hands on." Her work can be seen in many places online, but start at www.flickr.com/photos/powerpaola.

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Hello everyone!

It has been more than a month after the switch from Google's Blogger platform. Seems that most of the readers from the old blogspot site have shifted over. Currently, Parka Blogs has about 170 regular readers on site per day. That's pretty amazing to me and I would like to thank all the regular readers for coming back!!

Alright, the purpose of this post is to open up some conversation and gather some feedback on the new site, to see if any improvements can be made.

So here are some questions:

France grew up in France but now lives outside of Newark, New Jersey. She is a high school French teacher and hasn't taken an art class since she was in seventh grade.

You can view her work at her blog, www.wagonized.typepad.com. She has links there to her sketch galleries on Flick.

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Rick grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, earned a BA from Calvin College and an MFA from the University of Illinois. After a year in New York, he is now a full-time artist in Grand Rapids where he and his wife, Brenda, home school their six children. His work can be seen at https://studiobeerhorst.com and at www.eyekons.com.

Source: An Illustrated Life