6/29/2023 0 Comments Nate the great owl express![]() ![]() ![]() Along the way, I took advantage of some great opportunities to work on a variety of projects for many clients in many, diverse markets. That was a while (and more than 75 illustrated books) ago. Then it was time to establish my own freelance illustration business. For a couple of years, I worked and learned the ropes in the juvenile books division of The Dial Press. in Studio Art and ArtĮducation, I did the starry-eyed thing that all artists imagine doing and moved to New York. After graduating from Elmira College with my B.A. I must have inherited some of Opal’s creativity because no matter what I studied in school, I simply couldn’t help, but gravitate to art. Every year, Aunt Opal would gift the Wheeler kids with stacks of children’s books from her publisher, Dutton Books. The major cause of this fascination was my great aunt Opal Wheeler, a prolific writer of mid-century children’s books. My greater-than-average fascination with children’s books developed when I was quite young. ![]()
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