Deborah Melmon

Deborah is a freelance illustrator, living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. She knew she was going to be an artist when she created a paper maché lion in the eighth grade that grew so large, it had to be transported home in the trunk of y parent's Oldsmobile...with the lid up! After graduating from Academy of Art University in San Francisco, she started her career illustrating covers for the Palo Alto Weekly. Since then she has produced artwork for picture books, cookbooks, magazines, educational publications and licenses her artwork on giftwrap, greeting cards and fabric.