Resume of Deirdre Tessmann

Address: 168 Stevens Road

Salt Spring Island, B.C.

V8K 1W5

E-Mail : deirdre@studiodee.ca

Phone: 250-653-4223

Professional Experience:

StudioDee (2004-present)

• Teaching workshops on acrylic painting with the Salt Spring Island Painter’s Guild (upcoming Fall workshop in acrylic landscape)
• 2007 organizer of the Ganges life drawing group
• Personal portfolio preparation for students applying to post-secondary institutions
• Art lessons for Grade 4 students of the local Catholic diocese
• Producing paintings for gallery sales
• Generating artwork for websites and publication, mostly in Illustrator and Photoshop, storyboarding look and feel of website

Freelance Illustrator (2000)

Disney Interactive

• produced artwork for Toy Story game, from concept to development in three months

Home Design and Construction (1998-2000)

Salt Spring Island

• Helped design and contract the building of our home

Freelance designer (1997-98)

Rainmaker Digital Pictures

Vancouver, B.C.

• Designed interactive menus for Fox Entertainment DVD, capturing the “look and feel” of the individual movie

Production Artist (1997)

Motion Works Group Limited

Vancouver, B.C.

• Coloring and retouching, scanning images for video games

Graphic Designer (1990-1998)

Flavin Designs Limited (sole proprietor as an At-home Parent)

North Vancouver, B.C.

• Provided timely design to a wide range of corporate and private clients, including story illustration and character roughs for Shari Lewis productions
• Produced (wrote and desk-top published) monthly newsletter for Riverwoods Housing Co-op
• Provided fashion croquis (drawings) for upcoming Plum Clothing lines

Graphic Supervisor (1987-1989)

Deloitte Touche

• Vancouver, B.C.
  Designed printed material including all books, pamphlets, brochures, T-shirts and technical manuals, using early desktop publishing software (Ventura Publishing)

Senior Artist (1984-1987)

Changing Images Productions, Ltd.

• Design of audio-visual shows, speaker support and multi-image corporate slide shows, also provided storyboard illustration

Production Artist (1984)

Creative Screen Arts

Richmond, B.C.

• Produced camera ready art for silkscreen, producing all work for 7-11 Canada signage

Commercial Artist (1980-1983)

IBM Art Department

Don Mills and Eglinton, Toronto, Ontario

Education:

3D Modeling and Animation for Multimedia (April 1998)

University of British Columbia

Textile Surface Design (1990)

Capilano College, North Vancouver

Studied painterly finishes and silkscreening with Leslie Richmond

Diplomas in Fashion Design, Pattern Making (Sept 85-April 87)

Vancouver Community College

Evening courses

Summer Illustration Workshop Intensive (1982)

Ontario College of Art

Typography and Print Production (1980)

George Brown College, Toronto, Night School

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Honours (1974-1978)

University of Western Ontario

Majored in drawing, printmaking, contemporary criticism

Skills/Hobbies

• Digital Imaging: Proficient in Illustrator, Photoshop, Microsoft Publisher, Word.
• Other interests: Painting, drawing, Yoga, weight lifting, clothing design, travel.