Camille Rose Garcia – Kaleigh Snow – Drawing 1

Camille Rose Garcia born on November 18, 1970, in Los Angeles, California. She’s a painter, illustrator, and toy maker. She is known for Gothic, “creepy” cartoon style.

She was the daughter of a Mexican activist filmmaker father and a muralist/painter mother. Her parents divorced when she was at you age so she was raised with her mom and sister. She stared to be an apprentice with her mother working on murals at the age of fourteen while growing up in the generic suburbs of Orange County, visiting Disneyland and going to punk shows with the other disenchanted youth of that era. Camille’s layered, broken narrative paintings of wasteland fairy tales are influenced by William Burroughs’ cut-up writings and surrealist film, as well as vintage Disney and Fleischer cartoons as well as Walt Disney and Philip K. Dick.

She got her Master Degree of Fine Arts at University at Davis in 1994 and her BFA at Otis College of Art and Design in 1992. After six years of school left her feeling disillusioned and bitter as a result she moved to Huntington Beach, California to form a band called The Real Minx. She has illustrated two classic children books and is currently working on a third one by illustrating and writing the third one unlike the other two just illustrating them. She has also published three actual books.

Some of her collections are in art galleries such as Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Resnick Collection, and the San Jose Museum of Art. She has been featured internationally and in numerous magazines such as Juxtapoz, Rolling Stone, Flaunt, BLAB! and Modern Painters. On November 2, 2013 she was a part of a four women show in Los Angles, California called “Black Moon”.

I really love Camille’s artwork it really inspires me and by just looking at her work she has done over the years. I have actually enjoyed reading the books she has illustrated so far that is. They make the stories have a more creepy vibe to me and I love it. I hope others can find and enjoy Camille’s artwork as much as me.