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Q&A: A Conversation with Mary Engelbreit
I climb to the second floor of a Maryland Plaza building and start looking for Mary Engelbreit's office, digging in my briefcase for the suite number. Then I glance down the hall and start laughing. I see brown door after brown door, then a yellow one with a bright cherry, her hallmark, painted on the glass!
Engelbreit's one of the most beloved illustrators around, especially for her gawky, bespectacled Ann Estelle alter ego, who often appears inside black-and-white checkerboard, her bright colors Magic Markered over black outline and balanced by wryly profound quotes. Engelbreit's real life has not been the "chair of bowlies" she once sketched for Ann Estelle; she's fought for her business and suffered the almost unendurable pain of her son's death. But she understands inspiration.
Did you even like cherries?
Nope. I don't like tea, either [glancing pointedly at a painted teapot]. But I do like Scotties!
Ah, so your dog's a Scottie?
Nope. A rescued Alaskan Eskimo dog.
How do you keep your charming drawings from crossin American artist Mary Engelbreit (born June 5, 1952)[1] is an artist whose illustrations have been printed in books, cards and calendars.[2] She was born and lives in St. Louis, Missouri.[3] Engelbreit attributes her beginnings in art to getting eyeglasses in second grade and being able to see details of the world around her clearly for the first time.[4]: 6 After meeting her first artist, at age 9, she became convinced she needed her own studio space, which her mother helped set up in the family linen closet.[4]: 8–9 Engelbreit began working for a local advertising company, Hot Buttered Graphics.[4]: 7 Hoping to work as an illustrator of children's books, she shopped her portfolio around New York without success. She began working on greeting cards and her first nationally distributed greeting card featured a malapropism that played off an old saying, "Life is just a bowl of cherries", showing a girl lookin Born 1952 in St. Louis, MO; children: Evan, Will. Office—Mary Engelbreit Studios, 1001 Highlands Plaza Drive W., Ste. 450, St. Louis, MO 63110. Artist, entrepreneur, and author. Designer for advertising agency, c. 1972–73; staff artist for newspaper; freelance illustrator, mostly for greeting cards; Mary Engelbreit Card Company (now Mary Engelbreit Studios), St. Louis, MO, founder, c. 1983, publisher of Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion, 1996; licensor with Sunrise Publications, 1986. Given Star on St. Louis Walk of Fame, 2001; Best Art License of the Year, International Licensing Industry Merchandisers' Association, 2002, for Mary Engelbreit Studios. Hey Kids! Come Craft with Me, edited by Carol Field Dahlstrom, Meredith Press (Des Moines, IA), 1999. Booky, HarperFestival (New York, NY), 2003. Lovey Dovey, HarperFestival (New York, NY), 2003. Queen of Christmas, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2003. Honey Bunny, HarperFestival (New York, NY
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