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VeronicaFoster 604.812.9051 [email protected]

RESUME 350-1000 Parker Street, Vancouver BC

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Qualifications Summary Over 25 years overall experience as a self employed artist in various results-oriented arts fields that require creative solutions, leadership, and team work:

• 3 years experience on Feature Film / TV / Theatre related scenic art and props • 10 years working in Graphic Design and Airbrush illustration (pre-computer) • 23 years experience as a decorative artist, designing illustrative murals & decorative finishes • 10 years experience in custom and production decorative art furniture finishes

Skills Summary Scenic art - Skilled in a wide range of Illustrative skills ready to work in any style or scale from photo realistic to expressive, bold strokes to fine brushwork

• Artistic brush work in any style • Airbrush – fine detail illustrations to mural scale work • Color matching and mixing to create one off projects on the fly • Color mixing and systemizing finishes to create repeatable formulas • Figurative and perspective drawing skills • Able to create illustrative compositions from reference provided • Good collaborative and communication skills

Scenic Paint - Experienced in a wide range of paint mediums and techniques- acrylics, scenic paints, latex, caseins, tinted waxes, shellacs, alcohol dyes, asphaltum and oils- using brushes, airbrush, spray guns or hudsons

• Gilding- open surface techniques or gilded art stencils • Marble: color matching, additive and subtractive, multiple processes and veining • Stone: washes, stains, scumbles, moss, alge, molds • Wood: staining, graining, shellac / varnish application, distressing, aging techniques • Glass: aging, acrylic on glass surface textures and illustrative tinting, leading, • Aging: rain-aging, block aging, distressing and antiqued fine furniture finishes

Signage- Informal self-employed experience (father was a sign painter) • Capable of workking collaboratively or independently on vinyl installations • Planning, application, hand cutting and painting of custom mylar stencils • Design layout and planning drawings to scale • Capable of illustrative signage brush work

Props- Experience working on various hero props • Color matching and painting to create one off hero projects in various paint mediums • 2D and 3D textures on props from metallic effects to aged effects

References - Film Related

Jason Claridge 604-729-2297 WOW Paint Coordinator Jack Guppy 604-312-6902 High Moon / Paint Coordinator Steve Contu Steve Crane Michelle Searle Anne McClaren

604-312-5306 604-312-3776 604-837-4780 604-614-9285

High Moon / Foreman Backstrom / Paint Coordinator Backstrom / Foreman Third Dimension / Sculptor

Maggie Wilson 604.255.8224 Peacemakers / Propmaster Brentan Harron 604.839.9513 Twilight Zone / Propmaster David Asmodeas 604.312.9632 Underworld II / Propmaster




Work History – Film /Theatre Aug 2014 – Oct 2014

BACKSTROM Steve Crane - Co-ordinator Series

Nov 20Nov 14– May 2014 Paint finishes, burnt wood, Illustrative art, vinyl signage,

WARCRAFT Jason Claridge - Co-ordinator Feature film Paint effects, wood aging, moss, old stone, leaded glass,

signage, props, aged tusks, varnishing, wax finishes, Aug 2013 – Oct 2013

HIGH MOON Jack Guppy - Co-ordinator Pilot Paint finishes, plaster finishes, break away surface for special

effects gag, stand by paint 2000 – 2004

ELF Caluori Propwerks/ Props, 2002 Feature Film hockey sticks: faux wood finishes /colour consulting SANTA CLAUS II Caluori Propwerks/ Dan Sissons, props, 2002 Disney Film Santa’s pewter cocoa mugs: patina and detail painting miniature

foam footballs: faux leather finishes / colour match hero BULLET PROOF MONK Caluori Propwerks / Grant Swain, props,2003 Feature Film Rubber and foam scaffold: paint finishes and colour consulting X MEN II Caluori Propwerks / Jimmy Chow, 2002 Ames Entertainment Rubber weapons: faux paint finishes PERFECT SCORE Caluori Propwerks / David Perun, props, 2002 Feature film Rubber ladder: faux finishes, wood grain INSOMNIA Caluori Propwerks / Dan Sissons, props,2002 Feature film Rubber weapons and rubber safety saw: faux wood grain SCHOOL OF LIFE Maggie Wilson, props, 2002 Movie of the week Teacher of the year trophy: wood finishing, ageing bronze. SUSPENSE THEATRE David Perun, props, 2003 Pilot Matching marble finishes on china teacups TWILIGHT ZONE Brentan Harron / props 2003 Series 20 “ Barbie Doll faces painted to look like the actresses faces ANDROMEDA Caluori Propwerks / Don Buchanon, props season I-III Series Props and costume elements / various finishes, colour

consulting detail painting, tortoise shell finishes PEACEMAKERS Maggie Wilson / props, 2003 Series Hero Prop: Multiple copies of the burned remains of an

old love letter with hand written script - On set with hero props UNDERWORLD II David Asmodeas / Props, 2003 Feature film Distressed leather finish on two large leather bound book covers

Antiquing and distress on all the pages in the two books Special “hero” pages, for a specific worn aged effect




Related Projects UZUME TAIKO SET Bonnie Soon / Artistic director, 2003 Theatre Design and painting of 7’ X 50’ ( 5 panels) theatre back drops PLANTING DREAMS Delaney & Friends TV Commercial Animation/colouring RENDERINGS Judson Beaumont / Straightline Designs Site installation Conceptual drawings for airport “shipwreck play area” GO-CART Judson Beaumont / Straightline Designs Promotional Event Airbrush detailing on carrot go-cart MUSEUM Third Dimension studio/ Anne McClaren Display Colour consulting for painting skintones in acrylics CAST HAND PROP Third Dimension studio/ Anne McClaren TV Commercial Colour consulting and painting skintones in acrylics

Education Intro to Film Art Department / Capilano College 2002 Film Industry: An insiders guide / VSB 1998 Professional Practices / ECIAD 1996 Colour Theory / Capilano College 1989 Graphic design and Pre-press courses / VVI 1977

Related Skills Decorative Art and Design Art direction, sample development and presentation of custom art for residential clients: • Perspective drawings, figurative drawings, renderings for presentation, • Illustrative murals painted on walls, wood panels and canvas • Decorative arts skills: including glazing, gilding, marble and stone effects, wood graining,

antiquing, and various historic period illustrative art techniques such as chinoiserie, grisaille and trompe’loeil

• Textured applications: plaster finishes, cracked linen, composition ornament, dyed paper • Furniture finishes: Application of stains, oil varnish, shellac, clear acrylics, waxes using various

techniques - Striat, wood graining, stipples, gilding, gilded stencils • Airbrush and HVLP spray gun for illustration and murals • Teaching decorative art techniques and custom finishes • Setting up art teams and managing multiple projects through to completion • Liaison between designer, client, and the painting teams for various high-end projects

Fine Art • Contemporary mixed media art in casein paints over fractured concrete surfaces. • Fine art represented by Artworks Gallery, Van Dop Gallery • Evolution Collection, a series of small works in oil painted digital art

An example of commissioned artwork in-situ. 50” x 50” Mixed Media - Impressed cement, casein, acrylic on canvas




References- Art Commissions / Furniture Finishes • Michael Trayler, Principal, Michael Trayler Designs Ltd.604 341-4710 (Furniture Design) • Judson Beaumont, Principal, Straight Line Designs Inc., 604 251-9669 (Furniture Design) • Lorraine Demers, Principle, Lorraine Demers Interior Design 604.899.5431 • Ruth Mason, Principle, Mason Design Group 604.783.4271

Client Commissions- Mural Projects (select examples)

Tama Sushi Restaurant Entrance Area mural with 3D installation/ design and airbrushing on site Peter Kwok / Legend Holdings 8’X 20” Murals in pool areas for various residential projects Milestones Restaurant Richmond 6’X 24’mural painted on site Marriot Hotel Salt Lake City Utah 5’x 16’ mural on canvas / PFG&A (Project Management) Wyndham Hotel LA 6’X20’ mural on canvas / PFG&A (Project Management) Ritz Carlton Naples Florida 8’X20” mural on canvas / PFG&A (Project Management) St Johns Ambulance Museum Gilded artwork on glass for entrance area Brian Bamford Fresco triptych on concrete panels / Design, plaster casting, painting

Partial Client List

Art in Motion Fitness World Seeton Shinkewski Design Group Peter Gorman And Associates Lorraine Demers Design McCarthy Tetrault Wedgewood Hotel Burrard Pinewood Products Barbara Armstrong / Preston’s Interiors

Karo Design Resources Uno Langman Antiques George Kolias Design Diane Quinton Design Kieth Benjamin Architecture Suzette Lewis Design Teryl Magnussen Dennis Garity Design Polygon

Client Testimonial Selected Excerpt:

“We will recommend you without hesitation to all our friends and we will do so knowing that your range and skills are so diverse we will never see our home repeated. Every job you do will, I know, be different, because you listen to your clients, you don’t just paint the same thing every time.” Yours with more thanks than I can say, Mark Galvin

Contract Work History – Decorative Arts

Veronica Foster I Artestudio / 2008 – 2013 (Art Commissions)

Decorative art commissions - www.artestudio.ca - for examples Creating fine art for sale - www.veronicafoster.com - for examples

Michael Trayler Designs Ltd. / 2006 – 2008 (Furniture) Silver leaf gilding on various cabinets 22 K gold leafing on cabinets 100% coverage inside and outside cabinet




Created the bronze hardware for the Bokhara Armoire -www.trayler.com/files/bokhara-armoire.php

Stained and lacquered finishes over exotic hardwood veneers

Colin Griffinson Inc. / Griffin Decorative Arte / 2003 – 2007 (Decorative arts)

Gilding, metal patina, faux finishes, faux marble and stone, wood graining, distress techniques, historic illustrative painting techniques,

Custom hand painted finishes on furniture and kitchen cabinets Kitchen design, art direction, and presentation for high end client restoration project Liaison between the designer, the clients, the artists, for large high-end projects Developing the decorative finishes, setting up the art team and managing multiple

projects through to completion Mural design and illustrative painting projects on canvas panels, installed on site. Various texture applications, plaster effects, bas relief, dyed tea paper finishes Touchups and color matching and detailing

Peter Gorman Studios / 1990 -1991 / 2000 – 2003 (Decorative arts)

Mural design and painting on large scale projects in the studio, on canvas, or on site Color matching, glaze formulas for large projects lllustrative and decorative artwork, chinoiserie, vera eglomise, grissaille, trompe l’oeil Gilded surfaces with illustrative artwork Finishes on furniture, mirror and light fixtures Marble, stone, wood grain, metal patination, distress techniques, tea paper, boiserie, strie,

cracklure, gilded, textured, antique and distressed paint finishes Large out of town projects: Fairmont Chateau Whistler, Calgary Airport Inn, etc.

Burrard Pinewood Ltd. / Jano Industries 1992 – 2003 (Furniture finishing)

Development of a series of distressed antique paint finishes and glaze finishes for a ‘French Country Furniture’ line for large production runs of for various boutique hotels

Taught finishes for large custom production runs to the finishing team Straight Line Designs Inc. / 2002

Conceptual drawings for an airport waiting area project Decorative finish on giant fibreglass tree Airbrush shading on a giant fibreglass carrot and topiary shrubs Colour renderings for presentation

Radian Woodworks / 1989 - 1999

Conceptual drawings and sketches for furniture designs Colour renderings for presentation Wood sanding through to fine finish sanding for hand-rubbed oil and wax finishes

Veronica Foster Design and Illustration / 1980-1989

Graphic Design Airbrush illustration Layout and mechanical paste-up

Carl Chaplin / Airbrush Illustrator 1980-1983

Airbrush illustration for magazine ads Graphic Logo Design Layout and mechanical paste-up of children’s books

Abar’s Print Services / Printers 1977-1980 ( Employment)

Line camera, layout and mechanical paste-up for posters, magazines

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