Whitney L. Anderson is the author of several acclaimed children's books including Roku and Tanza, Ocean Bear and Roku and Tanza Discover the City! She will be at BookTree (609 Market, Kirkland, Wa 98033) on Friday, June 10th at 4pm to meet, greet and sign books. Don't miss this opportunity to meet her in person. She is visiting from Breckenridge, Co. Thanks for sharing this event with everyone you know and helping me get the word out.
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BIO :
Whitney is a self-taught multi-disciplinary fine artist practicing in the mediums of drawing since she was 3, painting since she was 15 and collage since she was 27. Born in Alaska into a 3rd-generation commercial fishing family and raised in Mukilteo, WA., she attended Duke University on athletic scholarship and in 2009 received her B.A. in Fine Arts. Whitney’s signature style is contemporary realism with a flare of pop-cultural nostalgia. She considers herself as “old school, raw and a purist” in that she does not intermix different mediums or partake in the liberties of this modern tech era to achieve her collage masterpieces: everything is free-handed and that stems from the thousands of hours refining her fundamental art skills over the past 25years. This is reflected early on in her childhood: “I didn’t like coloring books or tracing, I was always a blank, white slate kid.” Her blue-collar upbringing also prepared her way as an artist. There were no shortcuts to being successful: pure passion, drive and long hours make up a signature Whitney L Anderson art piece.
"The ripples you make today will be the waves you ride tomorrow" - Whitney
She has displayed her work nationally including Miami, Los Angeles, New York City, Denver and in various venues throughout her home city of Seattle. She displayed in her first international exhibit back in her ancestrial homeland of Sweden two years ago.
My personality is conducive to writing Children’s books
“After publishing my first book, I imagined a waterfall of other storylines, mostly, out of thin air. My corny and clever imagination gives way to my whimsicality. That term “whimsical” is what I’ve always described myself as an artist and as a person—even long before writing children’s books came into inception.”