ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Briar Lee Mitchell, MA, runs Star Mountain Studios, www.starmountainstudios.com, a successful gaming company, with her partners, Richard Sternberg and Adam Ryan. They produced an online video game with Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Genie Joe and the Axeman, and Apparitions with Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson, the Ghost Hunters and founders of The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS).

Briar is also on the faculty at the Art Institute, teaching game art, animation, and VFX techniques for TV, film, and games.

Briar began work as an illustrator in 1977 and has degrees from the University of Toledo (Ohio, BA in art) and the University of California, San Francisco (MA in medical and biological illustration).

She worked in conjunction with Lucasfilm on the very first interactive videodisc for the Smithsonian, titled The Life and Times of Albert Einstein. The videodisc and a portrait she painted of Albert Einstein are still at the Smithsonian.

Briar joined the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles (SILA) in 1992 and served as president for two years. Through her association with SILA, she became a member of the Air Force Art Program; she traveled around the world with the Air Force to document its work in paintings that have been inducted into the National Archives in Washington, DC. Her travels have taken her to Asia, the South Pacific, New Zealand, and as far away as McMurdo Station at the South Pole along with noted director/producer James Cameron.

You can view Briar's work for environments at www.paisleyshark.com and her medical/forensic work at www.medicalart-briarlee.com. You can contact Briar at [email protected].

In the photo with Briar is Bardy, an amazing Labrador who is her partner in K9 Search and Rescue.