I have a Bachelor of Design degree in Visual Communications Design, over 20 years of experience as a professional artist, and over 14 years as a professional Graphic Designer.
Over the course of my creative career, I have worked with many high-profile brands including
Coca-Cola, Staedtler Mars, Keurig, Danone, and McCafé. My work in colored pencil has won awards and has been recognized and published in international publications.
My passion for helping artists was amplified through my articles as a Q&A Columnist for
COLORED PENCIL Magazine from 2016-2019. A selection of those articles was published in a book called
The Best of Barb's Q&A in late 2019. Since then, I have been invited back as a guest Workshop Instructor in the magazine for the past 3 years.
I expanded the ways in which I am able to reach other artists in late 2018 with my
YouTube channel
and my guest co-hosting appearances on the
Sharpened Artist | Colored Pencil Podcast. I am currently the regular co-host with show creator and portrait artist John Middick.