All About Craig Orback

Craig Orback

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Contact Information

First Name
Craig
Last Name
Orback
Street Address
800 Yew Street
City
Bellingham
State
WA
Country
United States
Zip/Postal Code
98229
Art Rep
Liz Sanders Agency
personal web address
http://www.craigorback.com
Art Rep Web Address
http://www.lizsanders.com
type of art work
Oil, acrylic, watercolor, pen and ink, pastel, gouache, realistic, painterly, historical, contemporary, multicultural, biographies, picture books, easy readers, and educational
Published Works
The Can Man (Lee & Low Books), Hot Pursuit: Murder in Mississippi (Kar-Ben Publishing), Paul Revere's Ride (Picture Window Books), Survival In The Snow (Millbrook Press), Prisoner For Liberty, Susan B. Anthony Fighter For Freedom and Equality (Picture Window Books), Nature's Paintbox A Season Gallery of Art and Verse (Millbrook Press), Paul Bunyan, The Flyer Flew, Washington Is Burning, John Adams Speaks For Freedom (Simon and Schuster), Keeping The Promise A Torah's Journey (Kar-Ben Publishing), Bronco Charlie and the Pony Express, Uncommon Revolutionary A Story About Thomas Paine, Benjamin Banneker Pioneering Scientist, Nathan Hale Patriot Spy (Lerner Publishing)
phone number
509-993-6400
Bio

Craig Orback is a freelance children’s book illustrator living in the Northwest and received his B.F.A. in illustration from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle in 1998. He has illustrated Nature's Paintbox, The Can Man, Keeping The Promise A Torah's Journey and other award winning children's books. Some of his clients have included Simon and Schuster, McGraw Hill, Harcourt, Lerner Publishing, Lee & Low Books and Scholastic Inc. He teaches children's book illustration and oil painting at several local colleges. In his free time he enjoys painting landscapes and sharing his books with kids during school and library visits.