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Jamie Shelton Biography:
| Biographical information for Jamie Shelton can be found below. The artist may choose what information to display. Sometimes the artist chooses not to display personal information to the general public. |
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Age
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47
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| Gender |
Male
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| Status |
Single
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| Children |
99
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| Religion |
Spiritual |
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| Education |
Undergraduate Degree |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
Drawing, painting, poetry, distance running, cycling, martial arts, tennis, swimming, physical fitness, cinema, computer graphics. |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Drawing Pencil
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Renaissance - (1400 - 1600)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Frank Frazetta
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| Favorite Work of Art |
No single favorite
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
The comic book and pulp style art of such pioneers as Elvgren, Frank Frazetta, Wally Wood, Estaban Moroto, Boris Vallejo, etc. and the work of Norman Rockwell. |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
Simply put, it is what I love to do. |
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| Your Personal Biography |
As things tend to go with a “prodigy,” there is usually some watershed moment during which such an individual's family recognizes that one of their members is gifted, and that moment eventually becomes part of the family lore. Such was the case when Jamie's oldest brother placed a simple pencil in his hand at the age of three, and Jamie promptly proceeded to draw on nearly everything he came across (including his brother's grammar school diploma). Ever since then, Jamie has quietly & carefully honed an artistic eye for realism matched by very few, and a sense of the creative that placed him in heavy demand as an artist at an early age, all without ever having spent so much as a single day in any formal art training.
By his 12th birthday, Jamie had already won numerous awards in local art fairs and competitions in his native Chicago. An avid comic book reader & collector, particularly of horror magazines like EC Comics & Warren's Creepy, Eerie & Vampirella publications, Jamie drew and sold his own horror / sci fi comic books during his grammar school years. During his high school years, Jamie continued to exhibit work and earn finalist awards in numerous regional and national art fairs and competitions.
Captured by the disco dance party craze that swept the country at the time, Jamie joined some fellow high school friends to form a highly popular party dance group that inspired scores of similar groups of young dancers and planted the seeds of the Chicago party scene that would give birth to the House music movement. The promotional party flyers, or “pluggers” that Jamie designed quickly became a standard for underground event promotion and paved the way for many talented fellow artists to get their work exposed via such flyer design work. Always seeking new growth opportunities and outlets for his talents, Jamie entered the 80s by expanding the variety of work he took on, doing murals, layout and art direction work and logo design work for many businesses in the Chicago area. This period saw Jamie's first work in charcoal, while his work in oil and acrylic painting earned Jamie an invitation to exhibit in the prestigious Salons des Paris (France), the youngest artist to be so honored at the time.
Detoured by personal events, Jamie had to abruptly abandon visual art as an occupation to embark on what would eventually become a full blown hospitality career that would consume most of the next 20 years. While he was able to take on periodic design, portraiture and cartoon work over the course of that time, Jamie's production throughout the remainder of the 80s & most of the 90s was sporatic & undistinguished. But as the internet craze gave rebirth to thriving art and graphic design industries, talented artists that could produce original, distinctive work were once again in high demand. Jamie gradually saw an opportunity to return to his first love stronger than ever before, while adding newly learned desktop publishing and flash animation skills to his repertoire.
Ever the artist entrepreneur, Jamie has been amassing a volume of new charcoal and pencil work to add to his remaining work from the 80s to unveil as a comprehensive pin-up sketch collection on www.americansiren.com, slated to launch late Summer 2008. Jamie will introduce new work in color to join the masterful collage work of his brother, Gametheorist, on www.astralartist.com, slated to re-launch in Fall 2008. Excited to be back doing what he loves most, Jamie's current plans for his art have few limits, if any. Jamie lives and works in Chicago, and is available for commissions and art & design consultation.
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