Synopsis
Helane Freeman, an award-winning illustrator and art director, graduated with honors from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. At the tender age of 14, Helane began selling her paintings, and her work soon adorned the walls of her local bank, a beauty parlor and a real estate office. During her career as an illustrator and art director, Helane has worked on over 100 record album covers, including Frank Sinatra's "Radio Years" and NWA's "Straight Outta Compton," which was named one of the 25 best album covers of all time by Digital Arts Magazine. Helane has earned six RIAA Gold and Platinum Albums, a Hollywood Reporter Key Art Award for ad design for the film "Dumb and Dumber," and numerous other awards and accolades. Helane received the rare honor of having her work proudly displayed in the Smithsonian Institution as part of its Priority Records "The California Raisins" exhibit. Helane has produced packaging artwork for THQ and Mattel's "SmashPack - Sonic Spinball, Ecco the Dolphin and Golden Axe" video games, and currently creates artwork and props for several popular TV shows. Over the past ten years, her work has been featured, and continues to be seen, on TNT's "The Closer," Disney sitcoms "Hannah Montana," "Suite Life of Zack and Cody," "Suite Life on the Deck," "ANT Farm" and "I'm in the Band," and Fox Network's "Anger Management." To learn more about Helane, please visit helanedesigns.com
About the Author
HELANE FREEMAN'S BIOGRAPHYPainting is Helane Freeman's forté; she has been an artist all her life. A distinguished student, Helane graduated with honors from Pasadena's Art Center College of Design, earning a Bachelor's Degree in Illustration. After graduation, Helane enjoyed a successful career as an illustrator working with companies such as Disney, Mattel and Warner Brothers.Her uncanny ability to turn paint and canvas into emotion, movement and perspective comes from her artistic lineage, traceable to Leonardo da Vinci via master/apprentice relationships. She has shared her lineage and inspired other artists by teaching anatomy figure drawing at the California Art Institute.At the age of 14, Helane began selling her paintings, and her work soon adorned the walls of local banks and several neighborhood businesses. During her career as an illustrator and art director, Helane worked on over 100 record album covers, including Frank Sinatra - Radio Years and NWA's Straight Outta Compton, named one of the 25 best album covers of all time by Digital Arts Magazine. Helane has earned six RIAA Gold and Platinum Albums, a Hollywood Reporter Key Art Award for ad design for the film Dumb and Dumber, and numerous other accolades over her distinguished career.Helane received the rare honor of having her work proudly displayed in the Smithsonian Institution as part of its Priority Records "The California Raisins" exhibit, now part of the museum's permanent collection. She has also been commissioned to draw many celebrity likenesses; her pictures of Charlie Sheen and Oprah Winfrey each received first-round approvals on the spot from Charlie and Oprah themselves.Helane is now focused on fine art, using her talent and knowledge of light, color, illustration and design to create beautiful waterscapes, landscapes and more. Please visit Helane's online art gallery at HYPERLINK "http: //artbyhelane.com" artbyhelane.com.
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