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 StatementSacramento, CA was the last stop for the Pony Express riders in 1860. The riders were young, no older than 18, and face dangerous conditions on their sprint, that...
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Artist StatementAmerica is a collections of very diverse people, all with their own stories and cultural backgrounds. The thing that makes this United States of America so great is the...
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Artist StatementI\'ve drawn a lot of mammals that live in California, but I\'ve never drawn a wolf until now. Technically there are no wild wolves in California since the 1940\'s...
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Artist StatementAmerica is a collections of very diverse people, all with their own stories and cultural backgrounds. The thing that makes this United States of America so great is the...
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Artist StatementThis illustration is a second variation of my first drawing of the Run with the Pack picture.. Since each wolf in the first composition was created individually, I thought...
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Artist StatementI choose to illustrate the dandelion because it is tenacious and it represents all of the things that a healthy soil and plants can provide. The dandelion can grow...
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Artist StatementAlthough all of the National Parks and Monuments are remarkable, and all are worth visiting, I wanted to create a poster for Biscayne National Park. Ninety-five percent of the...
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Artist StatementWhen I first thought about a design for this campaign, the image that came to mind was of a cartoon scene of a gun being plugged and blowing up...
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Artist StatementThe Pacific Crest Trail runs from Mexico to Canada along the crest of the mountains in California, Oregon, and Washington, 2,663 mi (4,286 km) long. It received official status...
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Artist StatementI had originally drawn this image after I had discovered raccoons climbing over the fence at night to eat the cat food that I was leaving out for the...
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Artist StatementCommunity gardens are one of the best ways to bring people together. It teaches team work, work with immediate benefits, the wonder of seeing things grow and everyone feels...
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Artist StatementAs the climate warms, so do the oceans. The migrating whales have started their journey earlier and closer to the coastline, there are fewer salmon returning to span, fewer...
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Artist StatementAs our world becomes more connected through the internet, social media, instant mail and instant news and video, we can become more isolated. Living our lives through others' experiences...
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Artist StatementThe rainbow symbol can symbolize the LGBTQ cause, but the heart is a symbol of love. I wanted to play with both of these symbols in a design for...
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Artist StatementTo have pride in who you are, to stand up for what you believe in takes courage. To love yourself first, before you can love those who hate you...
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Artist StatementI knew that I wanted to create an image of children being read to, but it took a few attempts to figure out the composition and details.This illustration was...
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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...
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Artist StatementThe Old Spanish National Historic Trail supported commerce between Sate Fe, New Mexico and Los Angeles, California. Kane Springs, Utah was an important stop along the way that provided...
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Artist StatementKnowing that my son loves the dragons that I draw, I created an image of a dragon in a chance encounter with two other beings, a fairy and a...
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Artist StatementSurprised girl with the cupcake wallpaper. All of my designs were made in Illustrator. I used photos of the neighbor kids as reference and used artistic liberties to give...
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Artist StatementGirl with the ladybug wallpaper. All of my designs for CAN were made in Illustrator. Reference photos were used of the neighborhood kids. I took liberties with the images...
