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 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 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 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...
