Cary Cochrane

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Arts
Occupation artist, graphic designer
Location Winnetka, Illinois, United States
Introduction Visual artist and illustrator. Education: BFA Graphic Design, Carnegie-Mellon University. Work: Started work as a free-lance illustrator in Boston. Moved to Chicago to work as an art director for several, large international ad agencies. Began Cochrane Creative doing graphic design and illustration. Now, I'm drawing, painting and printmaking. The blog: Started this blog in 2009 as a sketchbook/journal. Most of the images are drawn from my life. Sometimes personal. Often mundane, as daily life can be. Thanks for visiting.
Interests being outside, walking, coffee, riding my Vespa, drawing, movies, dolce far niente, painting, home made pizza, art galleries, talking to dogs, thrift stores, cooking/eating, downhill skiing, napping in a hammock, taking photos, red wine, vodka martinis with blue cheese olives, seeing friends, life in general.
Favorite Movies "La Belle et La Bete" Jean Cocteau, "La Strada" and "8 1/2" Fellini, Pulp Fiction, One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, Rear Window (1954), Usual Suspects, North by Northwest, Taxi Driver, Das Boot, Rashomon, Great Escape, Cinema Paridisio, 6th Sense, Big Lebowski, 12 Monkeys, Saving Pvt. Ryan, Big Chill, Harold & Maude...
Favorite Music Vivaldi, Miles Davis, CCR, Paul Simon, James Taylor, Zydeco, Stones, Beatles, Blues, Sinatra, Dylan, Nick Drake, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Milt Jackson, Diana Krall, Brubeck, Sheryl Crowe, Bob Marley, Cream, Neil Young, Talking Heads, depends on my mood.
Favorite Books Wayne Theibaud, Bonnard, Eric Fischl, O'Keefe, The Fauves, Kilmt, Schiele, Childrens' Books, Just So Stories, Wind in the Willows

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