Meg O'Brien

Worked independently as an artist to accomplish various projects for clients. * Designed "Specials" display boards for Hyatt restaurants in Clearwater, FL, and executed conceptualized designs in chalk. * Conceptualized and designed wall-sized menu for Manhattan wine bar Maslow 6, executed in chalk. * Presently conceptualizing and designing a 24- page children's book under close direction with client, which will include front and back covers, full-color typeset illustrations per page, and inside cover designs with splash pages. WEB AND GRAPHIC DESIGN EXPERIENCE

Worked closely with a web development team for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (http://photoshopuser.com) throughout magazine publishing and web site development: * Worked behind the scenes on various tutorial websites owned by NAPP proofing digital art and photography video tutorials and adding searchable key words to the online database, as well as performing various website maintainance tasks. * Starred in two web video tutorial episodes of Layers TV demonstrating illustration techniques in Adobe Photoshop.

* In utilizing skills in Adobe Creative Suite 6, providing design and aesthetic solutions in photograph retouching, advertising, logos, personal branding, posters, photo manipulation, website design and development, flash animation, and other graphic design. * Through the use of Adobe Dreamweaver CS6, fabricating a web site from conceptual design to a finished live product, based in HTML5 and CSS, and coupled with already established advanced design skills. * Based on established extensive knowledge of Adobe Photoshop CS6, building poster designs, and manipulating photographs into new graphics made for print and/or web. ART AND COMPUTER SKILLS Advanced working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite 3-6, including InDesign, DreamWeaver, Flash and Bridge highly proficient in Photoshop, Illustrator and Corel Painter advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office experienced in HTML5 and CSS. Worked extensively in watercolor, oil, acrylic, gouache, markers, colored pencils, ink, charcoal, conte, and graphite. Portfolio and References available upon request