All About Kathleen Rietz
Kathleen Rietz
Contact Information
- First Name
- Kathleen
- Last Name
- Rietz
- City
- Chicago IL
- State
- IL
- Country
- United States
- Artist Representative
- self
- personal web address
- http://kathleenrietz.com
- type of art work
- pencil, pen, watercolor, gouache, colored pencil, realistic, semi-realistic, whimsical, painterly, mixed-media, digital
- Published Works
- Prayers For Children (Regina Press), My New Pet (Harcourt), Very Merry Mice (Roman, Inc.), and many images used in textbooks and classroom materials
- phone number
- (847)885-2441
- Bio
As long as I can remember, I was always drawing or creating something. So it was a natural choice to follow my passion and enter the world of commercial art. I have been fortunate to spend most of my art career freelancing, as I am SO NOT a morning person and have been known to put in 16 straight hours on whatever project is on my drawing table, once I find my flow. I've worked as a designer, product developer and illustrator, freelancing for some incredible clients in the publishing, gift, toy, apparel, confectionery, home decor and notions industries. But I've always collected children's books, so it is nice to be back doing what I really enjoy doing...illustrating books for children. In addition to illustrating 3 picture books, much of the work I get is used for textbooks and classroom material, which keeps me busy. I also teach art classes to children and teens at The Community School of the Arts at Wheaton College, and am about to begin teaching a class on painting and drawing fundamentals for a teen home school group in my area.
You can find more info on me in my creative diary at http://licoricegirl.blogspot.com or visit my website at http://kathleenrietz.com.
Partial Client List:
Abbey Press
Artmark Chicago, Ltd.
Bonne Bell
Cadbury Europe
Chicago Place
Demdaco/DD Traders
Diamond Toy
Enesco Corporation
Fantas Paper Products
Harcourt
Hershey's
Inspirit Press
JCPenney
Jetmax Int'l. Ltd.
Joe Boxer
Kohl's
Lillian Vernon Corp.
M&M Mars
New Readers Press
McGraw-Hill
Publications Int'l, Ltd.
Regina Press
Roman, Inc.
RTC Industries
Sears
Target
The Art Istitute of Chicago
The Bradford Exchange
The Museum of Science & Industry
History
- Member for
- 1 year 33 weeks