Description
‘Starlight’ by Matt Schu
Artist: Matt Schu
Title: ‘Starlight’
Medium: Ink and acrylic gouache on paper
Dimensions: 10″ x 8″
Framing: Unframed
Year of Creation: 2024
About the Artwork:
I’ve been drawing this old man and black cat for a while, and I like to put them in different situations. I’ve also been interested in spotlights recently, and thought it would be fitting for a ‘Silent Soliloquy’ where my characters are standing in the spotlight, silently facing outward from the picture. – Matt Schu
About the Artist:
(Artist Bio)
My name’s Matt, and I’m an artist and children’s book illustrator from Portland, Oregon. I’m the illustrator of the picture books Cut!, written by CE Winters (Greenwillow / HarperCollins); My Cat Does Ballet, written by Robert Heidbreder (Atheneum / Simon & Schuster); the Cosmic Collisions series by Dr. Marc Kuchner (Candlewick / MIT Press); and the upcoming Star and the Maestro by Thor Hanson (Greenwillow / HarperCollins). I’m also the illustrator of the chapter books The Tontine Caper by Dianne K. Salerni and The Islands of Elsewhere by Heather Fawcett, among others. My paintings and drawings have been exhibited at Nucleus and Nucleus House galleries in Portland, both in solo and group exhibitions, and I was awarded the Portland Regional Arts and Culture Council‘s Catalyst grant in 2020.