Serial of 11 Books and Film-Slide Show based on Native American Stories

"Art History: Horses and People in Children Books and Western Team Illustration."

Illustration:

Award winning Fine Art artists and illustrators, Jane Goretskaya, who holds a Master of Arts degree and Marina Bichinsky, who currently seeks the same goal from Syracuse University and both also hold Masters Degrees in Architecture have a talent to illustrate stories, tales, books and magazines. With over fourteen years as illustrators, Jane and Marina have the experience and technical ability to develop illustrations both by hand and by computer program with photo-realistic details and create fantastic images. They both also illustrate their own books.

Jane has created a slide-film, “When Stars Were Alive”, based on Native American stories for the Planetarium in Syracuse Museum Science and Technology (MOST). Creation of the film led her to create a serial of eleven children’s books under the same name. Professor of Syracuse University, well known illustrator from New York, Richard Tatham said that images from these books shows how right Jane can adapt any culture and that these images could become a treasure similar to the images created by great Native American Artists. She also illustrated some scientific films for the museum and illustrates numerous books, posters, and magazine articles. She became a member of the Society of Illustrators in New York and also illustrated Fashion magazines and then touched on Fashion Illustration Courses in Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY. Her California illustrations were published in such important magazines of Semiconductor's industry as “Semiconductor International”, “ European Semiconductor”, “Electronic Device Failure Analysis”, “EDFAS”, “Reability Society”, “Taiwan Commercial News”, etc., and also tough “Portfolio class” in San Jose Silicon Valley College. She also worked as Marketing Director for “Hypervision” in Fremont by managing all its publications and advertising.
Marina has worked as illustrator and creative director for some companies in New York state, (“Scott Brown, Co”, Utica, “Seaboard Atlantic”, Syracuse, “Pyramid, Co”, Syracuse) and for “Delta Star, Inc”, “Cloudwise.com”, “Themoment.com” in California by creating their advertisings and illustrations, preparing product labels, designing websites. She designs and illustrates her own children’s books, mostly fairy tales. Currently she works under her new one: “Scarlet Sails”, based on her childhood remembrance of Alexander Green stories.

Slide-film - “When Stars Were Alive”, based on Native American stories – available for the group. Call for the reservations – (408) 259-0265

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