Peggy DresselPeggy Dressel's Illustrations in this book were painted in watercolor, a medium which she feels is perfect to create beautiful paintings. Her transparent washes of changing complimentary colors vibrates the color for a luminesce and glowing painting.The sense of light conveys, mood, place and time of day. Peggy has been working as an illustrator, artist and designer for many years. She started her career working at a NYC illustration Studio, then a design studio and finally as a freelance illustrator/artist. As a Freelancer, her clients included companies such as Marshall Cavendish, Prentice-Hall, Reverie Publishing Co, Macmillan/McGraw Hill, Cook Communications Ministries, Macy's, Vogue and Zaner-Bloser Inc. She has illustrated Children's picture books, chapter books, book covers, posters, advertisements, periodicals an text books As a fine artist she has exhibited in galleries, museums, corporations and numerous juried and invitational shows such as the Catherine Lorillard Wolf Art Club, the NJ Watercolor Society and the American Artists Professional League, Inc. In June 2007, her watercolors were featured in an article in Watercolor Magazine. She is represented in both private and corporate collections. Peggy graduated from Pratt Institute and studied at Moore College of Art, PA and the National Academy of Design, NY. She resides in Oakland, NJ Read More Read Less