On this episode, Margo speaks with Illustrator and Fine Artist, Kate Endle. Kate has been illustrating professionally for over twenty five years, but art has been her main focus since her toddler years. In 1995 she moved to Seattle to pursue her art career and her early illustration work, rendered in a painterly graphic style, can be found in beginning reader books for children, editorial work for travel and education magazines and advertising materials. In 2001 she began to collect decorative papers which set her on a major art style shift that included collaging hand painted and decorative papers to a stretched canvas. With this new style, she began illustrating picture books and licensing her images to home decor and paper products. 

Kate and Margo discuss: 

• Kate’s path to professional artistry starting at a young age
• Why patience is truly a virtue and can pay off in the long run
• Possibilities that can come from working with an agent (good & bad)
• The power of community 
• Reasons to not put all your eggs in one basket in the art industry
• Why sometimes it’s necessary to allow yourself breaks
• Feeling uninspired (we all go through it!)
• And much much more!

Kate has had the good fortune of working with dream clients like American Greetings, Chihuly Garden and Glass, Hallmark, Klutz, Land of Nod, Madison Park Greetings, Modern-twist, Papyrus, Sasquatch Books, Sesame Street Workshop, Utne Reader and Washington Mutual. She is currently working in several different mediums (burlap paintings, punch needle and ceramics) and you can find her selling her work at her online shop at KateEndle.com, Etsy, Pike Place Market, Caspar Babypants shows and various craft shows around the Pacific Northwest. 

Connect with Kate:

Kate Endle Illustration & Fine Art

https://www.instagram.com/kateendleillustration/

https://www.facebook.com/kateendleillustration/?ref=ts

https://www.instagram.com/seattleladymakers/