Janie Coleman is an Austin fine artist who is as adept in oil and mural painting as in pencil or pen illustration.  She has done more than 150 commissions for individuals, businesses, museums, and/or or zoological exhibits. Her special expertise is in animal portraiture, but she is equally adept at  painting people, landscape, and still life.

Education

Janie Coleman studied art at the University of Hawaii,  commercial art and illustration under

renowned illustrator Jack Unruh at East Texas State University, and continues private study under acclaimed Texas fine artist  Phillip Wade.

Work Experience

Janie was assistant art director and illustrator for five years for the Dallas Zoo where she illustrated most of the birds, fish, mammals and reptiles in the vast Dallas Zoo collection - including a large mural at the Dallas Aquarium at Fair Park  She also worked several years as an illustrator in  Dallas  for the Tracey Locke Agency and the Bloom Agency.  

Clients

Dallas Zoo and Aquarium

Dallas Zoological Society

Dallas SPCA

American Association of  Zoo Keepers

Zoo Keepers Forum

Zoo Atlanta

Australian Koala Foundation

Texas Ocelot Research & Conservation Consortium

Okapi Research Foundation

Wild Canid and Wolf Survival Center

Zale Corp.

Allied Interests Inc.

Seven-Up Bottling Corp.

Portrait, landscape and still life commissions for

Businesses and private homes in Santa Fe, Dallas, Thailand, Houston, and Austin

Affiliations

Portrait Society of America

Guild of National Science Illustrators (since 1996)

Artist's Salon Chez Alexander

SPCA of Texas

Humane Society of the United States

The Paws Cause of Dallas