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angels and birds Happy New Year!

As we mentioned in our last update, 2008 was filled
with many new and exciting opportunities in the fields
of commercial art and licensing here at SKS Designs.

We’ve been hard at work creating an entirly new portfolio of designs, and learning all we can about the wonderful world of image manipulation with PhotoShop and Illustrator. There are days when we feel as though our heads are going to just spin right off our shoulders with all the new information we try to stuff in there,
but it has been a wonderful new adventure.

We signed our first licensing agreement with AMIA Studios, the nation’s top-selling designer and maker of exquisite, innovative glass window art and other hand-painted glass. They will be featuring the Delftware Blue and White designs on a whole collection of art glass to be found at finer gift and museum shops throughout the world. We are also working on designs for fabric, scrapbooking, paper goods and all sorts of wonderful housewares.

We are represented in the licensing world by Artistic Designs Group. You can see more of the new licensing designs being produced by the talented artists of our group by going directly to the web site through the link provided above.

delft delft catalog

Part of the AMIA Blue and White Collection

toys Along with the joy and wonder that comes with welcoming the shiny and new, we regret to announce we have closed out our packet and book sales.

The SKS Designs web site will be undergoing a dramatic restructuring over the course of the next several weeks as we prepare to transition from a decorative painting teaching and product sales site to more of a gallery format. January of 2009 will find us unveiling a whole new web site with gallery style images and portfolio presentations.

If you would like to stay informed about the new SKS Designs site, please send us an email at: susanstamilio@yahoo.com
We will contact you as soon as the new site is up and running.

Charlene and I are grateful to all of you who have sent supportive and encouraging emails,
wonderful photos of your projects,
the laughter and positive words
of friendship and love.

We are truly blessed to have you in our lives!

Susan K. Stamilio is a decorative painter living in the greater Washington, DC metropolitan area. Frequent moves throughout her husband’s career with the US Army and their 30+ year marriage, have allowed the two of them to travel extensively. It has also provided the perfect opportunity for Sue to study and gather research materials on various art forms around the world.

Formal training in fine art and commercial illustration has positioned Susan to work professionally in the fields of commercial and scientific illustration, architectural drafting, graphics and printing, portrait work, and theater arts. Sue has published four decorative painting books and illustrated five medical and veterinary books. She has created numerous designs for instructive painting magazines, and has taught seminars around the world to students of all skill levels.

Susan’s work has been featured at the White House for several special occasions. Commissioned pieces by both the US State Department and the White House have been presented as gifts from sitting US Presidents to both foreign dignitaries and personal friends. She has been featured in decorative art exhibitions in the United States, Australia, Germany, and most recently at the Nihon Vogue Decorative Painting Gallery of the World in Tokyo and Nagoya, Japan. Susan is represented in the licensing market by Artistic Designs Group.

The collaboration with Charlene Joel, Creative Consultant and Operations Manager for SKS Designs, began as a result of joint European tours, allowing the two of them to share their enthusiasm for the diverse artistic styles found there. After returning to the U.S. they trained together at both the Institute of Sacred Art at Ender’s Island and the Sacred Art Academy in Pennsylvania, two of this country’s premier academies of iconography and illumination.

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