About
This is an online exhibit of paintings, illustrations, and animation by Ellen Marcus. I hope you like what you see and please stay for the virtual wine and cheese. Well, maybe not the wine — We just ran out of virtual wine about an hour ago, but there is still plenty of virtual cheese.
Bio
I graduated from Columbia College in Chicago and worked in commercial animation for 7 years. Around the time things were moving away from traditional animation, I moved on to do other things including animation for a horror/comedy film, book illustrating, rescuing the ecosystem, and remodeling a house. I primarily work from a home studio with my trusty Cintiq, hand clippers, and Sawzall.
Copyright, permissions, disclosures
You may use most* of these images for non-profit or educational purposes without contacting the artist under the condition that credit is provided to the artist with a link-back to her website: http://www.actsofpaint.com and/or her name is placed on or near the work. Your time and respect is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
The artist reserves reproduction and sale rights to most* images, paintings, and designs created (even after the original has been sold). All sales of original paintings are final. All rights reserved.
*Some images (such as those found under the “Books” page) may fall under a different copyright contract other than what is stated, and is only reproducible under special terms that may not be described here. If you have any questions, please contact me: Ellen@actsofpaint.com
Contributions:
- IMDB
- VISUAL LITERARY ARTS COLLECTIVE
- The Pure Life Of Dreams
- The Annotated Old Fourlegs: The Updated Story of the Coelacanth
- Super Flaws (Illustrated Children’s Book)
- Community Food Forest Collective
- “Wait, Wait, Don’t Kill Me!”
- Society for the Future of Higher Education (website design)
- Friday Garden (Diary of my gardening experience)
- Magik World Studio
- Round Guys Underground
- NAC (Northwest Philadelphia Artist Collective)
- Loud Bicycle Horn (logo design)
- “Ogre And The Mermaid”
- Blue Cat Groove
- Merely Players
- Sea Witch Charters
- Lucky Charms, Trix Rabbit, Mr. Clean, Keebler Elves (with Calabash Animation)
- Local Feet
- Horse With Hands Riding a Bicycle