Colorado painter, illustrator and mapmaker Erick Ingraham on solving art directors’ problems, making it interesting for himself (“I’m known to make things more complicated than they might need to be”), spending eight years painting the Rockies’ western slope, working from his own photographs, taking inspiration from the past, getting into the culture of what he’s mapping, drawing coastlines, and some advice for developing artists: “Be a good draftsman.” See Erick’s work at erickingraham.com

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Children’s books
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Winter 1888: Record Snowfall
Where Do Forest Birds Go in Winter?
Green Witnesses
Western Watershed Map
Dugald Stermer
James Gurney
John Singer Sargent
Maxfield Parrish
NC Wyeth
Arthur Rackham
Gustave Baumann
Richard Estes
Tom Blackwell

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