Michelle's complete bio is coming soon...

Michelle offers an unique aspect to our custom design group because she is a professional custom soft goods artisan and she can/will create custom bedding and soft 2D wall sculptures to incorporate into the designs we can bring to your homes.

Her designs were marketed previously and sold by JC Penny and she is excited about creating custom looks for your home, that are exclusively for you.

Design Skills:

Able to take a custom design from drawing to finished product
Flat pattern, and draping design
Juvenile product design
Custom juvenile bedding/room design
Two dimensional soft sculpture design
Understanding of fabrics and textiles
Experience directing cut and sew piece work seamstresses
Understanding of pattern construction for two and three dimensional products
Experienced in many different sewing techniques

Fine Art Skills:

Painting, Master of Oil
Painting, Master of Acrylic
Painting, Master of Watercolor
Painting, Master of Wall Mural Treatments
Drawing, Various Tools /Grounds/Mediums, creates quick, loose sketches as well as detailed pencil portraits

Other skills:

Strong thinking and communication skills
Enjoy working with a creative team
Able to effectively take a project from initial concept to completion
Experienced in the juvenile soft goods market
Highly organized individual
Experience working in a creative children’s environment

At the age of 18, I discovered the incredible world of color with a paintbrush. Soon after that the only thing that mattered was what I created on canvas. It usually happened after midnight in the privacy of my bedroom when everyone was asleep except for creative individuals like me.

I went on to a career as an artist, exploring my creativity in Interior Design through Faux Finishes and Fine Art and as a Graphic Designer for Print, and Film and Video/Advertising...Here is a bit of my journey...

For 2 years I lived and breathed paint participating in local art shows in Florida and the Bahamas where I received several awards for my works including:
1st Place Painting Award Riverside Preservation Society,
1st Place for Painting Category
Member Longbranch Artists and Artisans, Nassau, Bahamas
I studied under well known local artists and attended workshops in Florida and the Bahamas until I decided to go to school and pursue a professional career as a student for a while. There I discovered the world of Visual Communications where I earned my BA degree. I was fortunate to start my design career at a very well-known Design studio where I began my new and exciting journey as a Graphic Designer and Illustrator. I have worked in print design for various Advertising agencies and studios. I then spent 5 years at CNN doing television design for On-Air graphics.

Durng the early 90’s I decided I wanted to use my fine art painting experience and apply it to a different form of Interior ART which led to my exploration of faux painting. I basically experimented with natural materials like wood, marble and stone textures. I would buy old pieces of furniture and give them a new look with these finishes. I then started working with a well- known Interior Designer in Nassau, Bahamas for various individual clients. There I attended a few workshops for gilding and various foil techniques.

I have painted walls, staircases, pillars, furniture, nature sculptures and accessories like clay jewelry. I feel there is endless creativity that can be accomplished with paint and a good pair of skilled hands and eyes!

“CREATIVITY IS A MEANS OF EXPRESSION BY THOSE GIFTED AND SKILLED TO GIVE IT!”

Skills Include:

Illustration/Hand skills Graphic Design:
Prisma pencils, color markers, pastels, charcoal and India inks

Graphic Design/Art Direction
Over 20 years practical/professional experience including receiving 3 Addy Awards for my works
Proficient in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign
Twister and Liberty Paint Box for Broadcast Design
Addy Award Winner for Design collateral

Cindi Guthrie lives in Roswell, Ga. with her husband and two children.

Here is her story in her words:

I left my job as a Delta flight attendant several years ago to stay at home with my kids. I started by painting their nursery's and have been painting ever since. I have trained with local professional decorative artists and am certified in many areas of faux finishing.

I am also a self taught artist specializing in hand painted furniture, floorclothes, kids murals, and clay sculptures. My work has been displayed and sold in local gift boutiques and art fairs.

Although, I miss travelling from time to time, I am so fortunate to be able to beautify people' home's and make them happy by doing something I love!

Skills Include:

Master Faux Finisher
Glazing- single and multiple layers, suedes,leathers,parchment,colorwashing, tea staining, ragging techniques,etc.
Plasters- venetion, metallics, resins, acrylics,sandstone,etc.

Murals-kids murals,stripes,circles, squares,florals, various images

Furniture- painted and antiqued cabinets, and all types of furniture,especially whimsical kids and adults

Floorclothes-any type, any size

Good with color

Carlos loved art since early age; he showed signs of an active imagination and a growing creative ability. With his love for animals and cartoon characters, Carlos always thought to be a cartoonist and a wild life artista! But his vision expanded through the years by bringing cultural perspective and an effective vision of more complex and ultra-dimensional presence in his paintings.

Carlos Solis started painting artistically in the mid-nineties as a freelancer specializing in nature, fantasy, spiritual and conceptual art.

He works in a variety of illustrative media; such us, digital, oil, acrylics, gouche, mixed media and pencil. He also enjoys producing works of decorative art such as murals.

Carlos has an Associate Degree in Graphic Design.

Skills Include:

Master Painter, All Mediums including Oils, Acrylic, Watercolor, and Gouche
Master Muralist and Trompe' Loi
Master of Faux Finish and Decorative Paint Treatments including Woods, and Stones

Graphic Design

Master Illustrator All Mediums
Proficient with Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign