Denise Howard

Denise Howard is the author of 101 Textures in Colored Pencil from Walter Foster Publishing. Her realistic works in graphite and colored pencil have won national and international awards, including 3rd Place in Strokes of Genius 13. She has been featured in Colored Pencil Magazine and COLOR Magazine, has work published in several books, and is popular as a workshop presenter. She is a ten-year merit signature member of both the Colored Pencil Society of America and the UK Coloured Pencil Society, and is the president of CPSA. Prior to her art career, she was one of the developers of iPhoto at Apple and earned movie credits on Antz and the Academy Award-winning Shrek at PDI/DreamWorks. She holds a BA in Art and a BS in Math/Computer Science from Truman State University, and an MS in Computer Science from Ohio State University.