Illustrator Profile

Illustrator Profile -- Sherry Meidell

BORN: Logan, Utah

PARENTS: Yes

SPOUSE: David Meidell

EDUCATION: Clerk Typist Certificate from LDS Business College, Two year Commercial Art Course at Utah Technical College, various workshops and night classes on watercolor, illustration and writing.

PLACES LIVED: Logan, Salt Lake, Bountiful, North Salt Lake, West Bountiful

OTHER JOBS HELD: Killed flies at Gil's Burger Depot, Operator at Western Union, Made Posters for Lagoon, Ralph Butler and Associate's (a commercial art shop in Salt Lake) various free lance art jobs. Raised and raising five boys, now they're five young men, fist fights, nose bleeds, stitches, snakes, frogs, iguanas

HOBBIES: Painting, mountain biking, hiking, camping, racquet ball

PHOBIAS: Yes

RECENT BOOKS ILLUSTRATED:
"The Day the Picture Man Came" by Faye Gibbons,
"The Great Grape Problem" by Mary Lou Carney, and
"The Latterday Times The Joseph Smith Edition" by
Carol Williams.

PUBLISH WITH: Deseret Book, Boyds Mills Press

SCHOOL VISIT ACTIVITIES: Assembly, workshops: How to make a picture book and Getting the Research Right

WEBSITE FEATURES: Articles on being an artist