Something to Cherish™ - Art Licensing by Cherish Flieder » Product Development

Prayer Posies – Rocky Mountian College of Art & Design Art Show

Cherish Flieder — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:32:00 +0000

For media inquiries contact: Cherish Flieder

Reception with a Colorado children’s book artist team

Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design’s Alumni art exhibit features painted illustrations with hand embroidery by husband and wife art team Benjamin Hummel and Cherish Flieder. The show, which runs through March 5, marks the first time the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design Alumni Gallery has hosted illustration grads.

This show is a unique, interactive look at the jointly illustrated book, Prayer Posies, including original paintings, audio/video visuals and a participatory posies garden room. The evolution of illustrative work can be seen as Cherish and Benjamin present their original artwork alongside reproductions of the book’s final pieces.

Authored by Barbee Lux, Prayer Posies is a unique approach to children’s literature teaching virtues and faith to children through poetry, sound and art.

Join the artists and author at the mid-show reception and children’s book signing:

Friday, February 5, 6 – 9pm
Alumni Gallery at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design

800.888.ARTS | www.rmcad.edu
1600 Pierce Street | Denver CO 80214

This event is free and open to the public.

# # #

About the artists:

Cherish Flieder and Benjamin Hummel are both dedicated to painting for life. Benjamin is a two-time liver transplant survivor who was among the first children to be transplanted for a rare auto immune system disorder affecting his liver. Cherish grew up in a large family where her parents and grandparents helped to raise many special needs foster children and adopted several of them as well. Every day has challenges of its own, but this couple looks for ways to celebrate the good things in life in spite of all difficulties.

Cherish and Benjamin met at Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design and later married with the hope to use their artist abilities to enhance the lives of others around them. This native Colorado team illustrates children’s books as well as designs a line of art, cards, limited edition prints and other gift products with their brand at PaintingForLife.com.

Learn more about the author & the Prayer Posies book:

For a sampling of this work on the subjects of love, compassion, generosity, gratitude and more, please feel free to visit the author’s site PrayerPosies.com.

Prayer Posies note cards and corresponding signed books, art and exclusive gifts are available from the artist’s site PaintingForLife.com.

Have your cake and paint it too!

Cherish Flieder — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:19:40 +0000

To licence this or other artwork or to place a custom order, please contact me.

Color Trends Toolbar: my gift to you

Cherish Flieder — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:58:21 +0000

As a designer, you know that there are probably millions of ways to arrange color palettes. Our environment is continually informing us of colors that best represent a slice of our humanity at any particular time. Technology, current events and philosophical beliefs are just some things that move and shape our color trends.

Since following color trends is an ever changing, organic and creative process, there will never be one definitive resource on the matter. However, designers and manufacturers must stay on top of these patterns, to incorporate them, to respond to them or at least, just to be aware of them.

In my efforts to stay on top of this ever changing and inspiring world of color, I have created a handy color trends toolbar to include quick and easy links to some of my favorite sites on COLOR.

(click to zoom)

As a special gift, I would love to share this very helpful color trend toolbar – “Cherish COLOR”.

Designed for anyone who researches color and trends along with those who just love color and art
Especially helpful for manufacturers, licensees and artists
No risk, completely anonymous, no strings attached
It works on Windows, Mac and Linux and on all the major browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox, and finally Safari.

This easy to install tool bar has links to the most popular and useful sites in the areas of:

Color Trends + Palettes (Sites, Blogs, Google Search, Books)
Color Mixing (Color Tools, Color Management and Color Software)
Color Me Fun (+ Games)
Built in Google search engine
Internet Radio (Add your favorite stations)
Note Pad
Weather
E-mail Notifier
Plus customize it by adding many “gadgets” of your choice

Please feel free to contact me with any feedback. You are also free to share this free tool with any design professionals you know would benefit. Enjoy!

You may download the browser toolbar here!

5 Reasons I Love Art Licensing

Cherish Flieder — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:27:45 +0000

With Valentines’ day coming up and love in the air, I thought I would take some inspiration from my art licensing friend and mentor Tara Reed and write about why I love art licensing. So here we go. . .

1. I love the process of product development. It is a thrill to start with an idea or image, expand it, grow it and refine it until it becomes something new and different. Figuring out how to present and market a new product concept is an exciting puzzle to piece together.

2. I love alternating between the fast pace deadlines and long hours painting new art licensing collections in my studio, while listening to music that inspires creation. Being able to set my own schedule and follow my dreams is a major plus to running my own design studio.

3. I love creating designs and color combinations that will impact and inspire others that eventually find them at retail. Reaching into and touching strangers lives with love and hope is a pure delight.

4. It is an incredible feeling to wake up every morning, knowing you are your own boss. I have an incredible sense of passion and purpose for a specific vision for my brand, “Something to Cherish.” I love being able to earn a living creating, painting and designing images and graphics that solve problems and meet needs for the companies with whom I choose to work.

5. And most of all it is the wonderful plethora of people I meet along the way. It is the art directors and designers and fellow artists I am privileged to know and work with. They inspire me to be better, to reach for new heights and are a complete joy to collaborate with, even on the most challenging projects.

Just One More Book

Cherish Flieder — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:37:00 +0000

With SO much happening everyday in the children’s publishing area, it can be very difficult to stay on top of things. Andra from Just One More Book just sent me this cool children’s book resource. I hope you find this as interesting and educational as I did. . .www.JustOneMoreBook.com

“A podcast about the children’s books we love and why we love them — recorded in our favourite coffee shop”

“Just One More Book!” is a thrice-weekly podcast, which promotes and celebrates literacy and great children’s books. Each weekday morning, we take a few minutes out of our morning coffee ritual to discuss one of our many favourite children’s books. We also feature weekly interviews with authors, illustrators and experts and enthusiasts in the areas of children’s literature and literacy as well as listener-submitted book reviews.

Through this podcast and website, we are building a lively, interactive community linking children’s book authors, illustrators, readers (parents, children, librarians, teachers and literacy activists) and publishers.

Guests have included celebrity authors such as Sheree Fitch, Rachna Gilmore, Jack Prelutsky, Daniel Pinkwater, Eve Bunting, Eva Ibbotson, Henry Winkler and Mary Ann Hoberman. They have also aimed the spotlight at interesting and lesser known and illustrators.

Episodes range in length from 5 to 25 minutes and can be played directly from our web page or downloaded to a portable mp3 player, such as an iPod, for listening on the go.

This podcast is powered by passion. They have no advertisers or sponsors. Their goals are to link children with great books and to help create happy memories for children and the adults that read to them…and to have fun!

The Just One More Book! Podcast has been recommended by the American Library Association as one of its 2007 American Library Association (ALA) – Great web sites for kids and has been featured in Canadian Living Magazine and such prestigious literary publications as School Library Journal, Books for Keeps and Publishers Weekly. We are also regular contributors to ChildsLife, The Edge of the Forest and Parent Source online newsletters.