Profile
Peggy Hellem is an award-winning freelance illustrator and designer based in Sherrodsville, Ohio, dba Four Winds Graphics. She is a 1985 Graduate of The Art Institute of Pittsburgh. Her specialities include nature-based illustrations such as birds, plants and animals. She also does very detailed architectural illustrations. Her work is perfect for greeting cards, advertising, packaging, editorial, and travel promotions. She prefers doing hand drawn illustrations using pencil, colored pencil and ink with some watercolor added. She is also doing more digital illustration when needed. A little known fact about Peggy is that she was born blind in one eye, a birth defect that is considered to be 1 in a million, as the condition causing it usually occurs in both eyes. She has dedicated her life to creating art and design to help others see and understand the beauty all around us.
Style/Techniques
Black & White, Colored Pencil, Design, Digital, Logo Design, Pen & Ink, Pencil, Realism, Stylized, Decorative, Floral, Concept Art, Monoprints
Subject/Specialties
Adventure, Animals, Architecture, Book Covers, Botanical, Celebrities, Children, Children's Books, Editorial, Education, Family, Food, Greeting Cards, Historical, Holidays, Information Graphics, Landscape, Leisure, Licensing, Music, Mystery, Nature, Packaging, People, Political, Portrait, Posters, Product, Textiles, Travel, Wildlife, Americana, Agriculture, Lifestyle, Vintage / Retro, Masculine, Environmental, Branding, Surface Design