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Shelley Osowiecki joined MSU's Department of Art and Design in the Animation and Illustration BFA program in the Fall of 2022. She teaches Introduction to Illustration and Digital Painting. She works primarily in watercolor or digitally (vector and bitmap). Her iPad and Procreate have been the go-to for digital drawing and painting, but she also has over 20 years of experience with the Adobe Suite, specifically Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, as well as similar drawing software. Shelley has almost 20 years of experience teaching, in addition to working in freelance illustration. She believes strongly in the importance of preparing her students to be competitive in the professional market in various careers in illustration and animation and that a strong foundation in drawing and painting will achieve that.
She comes from a background in art education, having earned a Bachelor’s degree in Art Education from Westfield State University in 2004, a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies with a concentration in Art from Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT in 2010, and a Master of Fine Arts in Illustration from Hartford Art School in 2020. She has been working as a freelance illustrator and designer as well as teaching art at RHAM High School since 2005. Shelley’s professional work has been for print- LEGO Comics, book and magazine illustrations, as well as layout and logo design. She has been illustrating comics and vector illustrations for LEGO since 2011. Her comics appear in LEGO’s magazine both nationally and internationally, as well as on their app, LEGO Life. She also teaches an Early College Experience Drawing I course for the University of Connecticut. Shelley regularly participates in CT gallery shows.
Specialization
Professor Osowiecki specializes in illustration for the children's media including sequential art and picture book illustration. Her work has appeared in the LEGO Club and LEGO Life US and International Magazines, as well as several magazines and promotional material.
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