Andrea Mistretta
Mistretta has been a major influence on the popularity
of Mardi Gras celebrations to other |
regions of the US outside New Orleans. Her Mardi
Gras Posters are the foundation of the most successful licensing program
in Mardi Gras history. Mayor Sidney Barthelemy conferred her with the title
of Honorary Citizen for promoting a positive image of Mardi Gras and New
Orleans through her art. Major domestic and foreign companies have enlisted
her talents to promote their products and their national recognition of
Mardi Gras over the last decade. |
Leo Meiersdorff
(1934 - 1994)
In a world where imitation has always been the most
sincere form of flattery, Leo was often copied but never duplicated. His
art and culinary paintings and drawings are his best know works because
they have received the greatest worldwide attention and distribution. After
years of study and experimentation he mastered his craft. Leo had flashes
of inspiration which he immediately captures on paper. If not satisfied,
he might destroy the entire sheet but he seldom reworked his lines of colors.
A native of Berlin, Germany, Leo derived most of his inspiration from the
people, music, food and ambiance of New Orleans' French Quarter where he
resided for more than a decade. Leo Meiersdorff's work is extensively used
by the television and movie industries. As a graphic artist and art director,
he worked on major network productions. Since 1974 he was a voting member
(Grammy awards) of the National academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
and he designed numerous album covers for leading jazz musicians.
Bob Coleman
Bob has a solid background in fine art and attended
college at Kendell School of Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He applied
and was selected by the Department of the Army to go to Viet Nam as a combat
artist. He was to record and paint the images he experienced. His works
are now part of the National War Archives. Bob's work as an art and creative
director has won him many local and national awards for illustration, design
and painting. However his attraction to digital art has led him to experiment
with various styles that are unique to digital art. Bob says, "To become
a true digital artist you must be true to your medium. Much like a watercolorist
you do not try to mimic oil painting with watercolors, a true digital artist
lets the media dictate the style. Creating digital works is my passion.
Once your digital pen becomes an extension of your expression the freedom
is beyond any traditional media I have ever used. It took me 5 years to
get to that point. When paint became available in tubes a new style of
art emerged called impressionism, today our tubes of paint are called computers." |
