Kieren Dutcher

Professional Artist

Kieren Dutcher is a Professional Artist and a Teaching Artist at the NIAD Art Center in Richmond, California, and other venues around the Bay Area. With 30 years of experience, she specializes in colorful illustrations inspired by folk art, nature, and color. Kieren earned her Master of Education in Art Education from San Francisco State University and her BFA from the California College of the Arts. Her work has been published by St. Martin's Press, Uppercase Magazine, Highlights Magazine, in hospitals, and on TV. Her picture book Chinese and English Nursery Rhymes: Share and Sing in Two Languages (2010) won best book of the year from the Chinese American Library Association.

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How to

Make an Easel

Easels are helpful tools that hold canvases and drawing pads upright while they're being worked on or displayed. You can always buy an easel at an art supply store, but you can build one at home with wood, pipe, or cardb...

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Use a Kneaded Eraser

A kneaded eraser is a staple of any artist’s toolbox. It can be used to remove a number of drawing materials, including charcoal, graphite, chalk, and pastel. As the name suggests, kneaded erasers can be stretched and ...

How to

Make Fan Art

Fan-art is a broad category of art that includes any visual artwork inspired by a work of fiction you like, such as an anime, a television show, a novel series, or a comic book. Making fan-art is a great way to both show...

How to

Illustrate a Children's Book

Writing an excellent story for a children’s book is only half the battle. Even the most engaging plots simply won’t come to life without vivid illustrations to match the text. Luckily, by brainstorming and using a si...

How to

Make a Picture Book

Picture books are short, narrative-driven works with an emphasis on colourful pictures that they use to tell a story. Typically intended for children, there's a lot of variety and potential in picture books. Making a pic...

How to

Illustrate a Book

Are you a natural artist? Good with a pencil or paints? Then you may want to illustrate a book someday. There are several steps you can take to successfully accomplish this goal.

How to

Make a Patchwork Quilt

Patchwork quilts are enchanting to look at, to own and to create. One of the first craft projects many young girls learned to create in generations past was to make a patchwork quilt. Getting started is really simple and...