Brenda Drew is an illustrator/painter with professional illustration, graphic design and fine arts experience spanning over 40 years. Brenda began her career in New York City as a fashion illustrator for Vogue-Butterick and Simplicity Pattern companies and free-lanced for Burlington and J.P. Stevens Industries, as well. She has studied art and architecture in Europe and graduated from The Traphagen School of Fashion, attended Parsons School of Design and New School University in Manhattan. She also studied with the late Robert Gesner of the Yale School of Art and won awards from the National Scholastic Magazine and the DuPont Corporation for Men's Wear Design.
Brenda has very fond memories of spending summers on Cape Cod since she was a child, and has always been inspired by its local color and the natural beauty of the Cape. When she moved to the Cape in 1988, she worked as a display artist for various retail stores, including Tree's Place, Mark, Fore, and Strike, Fancy's Farm Market, Van Huesen, Soft as a Grape and Head & Foot putting her visual expertise and great sense of color, design and fashion into window displays and interiors. She has also been a floral designer for Star Market and Shaw's Corporation bringing the magic of color and floral design to weddings, proms and year round holidays. Today her wonderful, colorful, fun poster of the Hot Chocolate Sparrow hangs there and is also available by email and her postcards of the Hot Chocolate Sparrow continue to be for sale there as well.
Brenda brings beautiful, historical, cultural and fun Cape Cod and people to life in vivid color and vibrant detail in her illustrations in a lively way for native Cape Codders, wash-ashores and tourists alike to cherish their own memories of their favorite vacation spots, scenic views, and local activities.
"When I was growing up, I was strongly influenced by fashion coloring books and my wonderful box of 64-color Crayola crayons.", Brenda says.
"I loved paper dolls of Hollywood movie stars like Doris Day, Grace Kelly and the McQuire sisters, who had glittery paper gowns. That was especially magical to me! This led me to become a fashion illustrator. I graduated from Traphagen School of Fashion, in New York City, the oldest fashion school in the country since 1928, attended Parsons School of Design affiliated with New School University, and the Yale University School of Art. All my experiences in the world of fashion and my travels in life as an artist have informed my current illustrations, designs and fine art."
Brenda has very fond memories of spending summers on Cape Cod since she was a child, and has always been inspired by its local color and the natural beauty of the Cape. When she moved to the Cape in 1988, she worked as a display artist for various retail stores, including Tree's Place, Mark, Fore, and Strike, Fancy's Farm Market, Van Huesen, Soft as a Grape and Head & Foot putting her visual expertise and great sense of color, design and fashion into window displays and interiors. She has also been a floral designer for Star Market and Shaw's Corporation bringing the magic of color and floral design to weddings, proms and year round holidays. Today her wonderful, colorful, fun poster of the Hot Chocolate Sparrow hangs there and is also available by email and her postcards of the Hot Chocolate Sparrow continue to be for sale there as well.
Brenda brings beautiful, historical, cultural and fun Cape Cod and people to life in vivid color and vibrant detail in her illustrations in a lively way for native Cape Codders, wash-ashores and tourists alike to cherish their own memories of their favorite vacation spots, scenic views, and local activities.
"When I was growing up, I was strongly influenced by fashion coloring books and my wonderful box of 64-color Crayola crayons.", Brenda says.
"I loved paper dolls of Hollywood movie stars like Doris Day, Grace Kelly and the McQuire sisters, who had glittery paper gowns. That was especially magical to me! This led me to become a fashion illustrator. I graduated from Traphagen School of Fashion, in New York City, the oldest fashion school in the country since 1928, attended Parsons School of Design affiliated with New School University, and the Yale University School of Art. All my experiences in the world of fashion and my travels in life as an artist have informed my current illustrations, designs and fine art."
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