Lyla Paakkanen lives in Sacramento, where the Pony Express ended its route. She is a freelance artist and illustrator, has a Master’s Degree in Art from CSUN, Communications Design from UCLA. She taught art at 5 colleges and has won many awards in California and Colorado for her work.
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Artist StatementMy sister runs marathons and she has always had her dogs to run with her. I decided to paint her and her running partner, Kirby, a rescued dalmatian. Kirby...
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Artist StatementIt is with a heavy heart that we would have to say goodby to a president who has been so beloved by so many. I imagined him walking off...
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Artist StatementPresident Obama asked us to, Don't Boo, Vote!", but it is Hillary Clinton that is giving it the big thumbs up! — Lyla Paakkanen
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Artist StatementHalloween is my favorite holiday, but this year I know that I won't have to get dressed up to vote! — Lyla Paakkanen
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Artist StatementThe sea turtle has existed on our planet for 110 million years, but with the influence of modern humans, nearly all species of sea turtle are classified as Endangered....
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Artist StatementWhen I was sketching out ideas for this campaign, I had wanted to make a statement for the air that we all breath. Everything is affected by the air...
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Artist StatementWomen hold the key to perpetuating a family line and so each woman is beautiful in her own right. We celebrate their similarities and differences as members of the...
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Artist StatementI used to work at the Los Angeles Children's Museum where I was in charge of an ethnic exhibit and a children's gallery. We would get art from different...
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Artist StatementIf hunters wear this orange to be more visible while hunting, then I wanted to portray a figure wearing the safety orange color. I liked the design aspect of...
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Artist StatementI wanted to illustrate a family looking to a hopeful future for a poster for, "A World without Nuclear Weapons. This family, hand-in-hand, is in silhouette against the dawning...
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Artist StatementI was playing around with some foliage shapes in an effort to illustrate the idea of growing and abundance. The idea was a play on the word 'stop' in...
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Artist StatementI had thought about the concept of using the figure and the pose of da Vinci's Vitruvian Man against the radiation symbol, but rendered with the skeletal details inside....
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Artist StatementI love romantic stories, but this one, by Thomas Hardy, is about more than the love between two people. It was written in the 1874, but revised in 1895...
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Artist StatementI took this picture of the Stanislaus River. It was still beautiful but alarming low. The drought in California had reduced mighty rivers to standing pools and trickles. —...
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Artist StatementI took this picture of a meadow in the Calavaras Big Trees State Park in California. The beauty of the scene was marred however, by the fact that some...
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Artist StatementWith the severe drought conditions in California water in lakes and rivers shrank to appalling low levels. The fish in some of those waterways are dying because of the...
