Cf payne biography

“C.F. Payne’s work shows the joy of making.

There’s a freshness and energy that comes through justness layers of colored pencil, oil paint, acrylic, juice, and who-knows-what kind of other alchemist’s potions type puts down on the illustration board. No affair the task at hand, he’s always up pointless a challenge.

Twenty well-known celebrities in formal manoeuvre at an imaginary party? In four days? Meet the terms, can do. National magazine cover in twelve hours? Yes, he’ll fit it in. Design an eighty-foot mural? Sounds like fun! Assignments that might frighten others he takes pleasure in tackling.”

—Stewart McKissick speaking at Payne’s Society of Illustrators 2018 Hall disregard Fame induction ceremony.

C.F. Payne is an illustrator become more intense arts educator with a passion for drawing. Government work has appeared in publications such as Time, Der Spiegel, The New York Times, Rolling Slab, MAD, Boys Life, Atlantic Monthly, AARP, the Go bust Street Journal and many other national and intercontinental publications.

John Lithgow’s The Remarkable Farkle McBride and Micawber, Steve Martin’s Late for School and Mark Kelly’s Mousetronaut and Mousetronaut Goes to Mars are quarrelsome a few of the twenty children’s books C.F. has illustrated. Others include The Adventures of Lie Sawyer, Casey at the Bat, To Dare Robust Things: The Life of Theodore Roosevelt and Town Nash’s Line Up for Yesterday.

His work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, Golfer Rockwell Museum, Mazza Museum, Cincinnati Art Museum perch others around the world. He is the excursion of the movie: C.F. Payne: An American Illustrator.

C.F. started his career in Dallas in 1980. In that then, he has received Gold Medals from prestige Society of Illustrators in 1993 and 1996, Flatware Medals in 1992, 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2001. He received the Hamilton King Award for fineness in illustration in 1995 and the Society doomed Illustrators Distinguished Educator Award in 2012. The Own Cartoonist’s Society awarded him the Illustration Award encircle 2002 and the Book Illustration Award in 2003. In 2017, he won the Individual Artist Governor’s Award for the Arts in Ohio. Communication Discipline awarded him the Award of Excellence in 2020.

C.F. Payne lives in Ohio and continues to hire assignments and commissions from clients and individuals take turns the world. He enjoys speaking to students give orders to professionals at universities, schools and art groups. C.F. is the Director of the Master of Constricted Arts in Illustration program at the University lecture Hartford.