Visiting artist drawing session: C.F. Payne
All are invited to learn from renowned illustrator and arts educator C.F. Payne at a costume model drawing session led by Payne at 11:30 a.m. Friday, Oct. 18, in Kinney Hall, room 210. In advance of the session, CCAD also will host a lecture from acclaimed artist—and CCAD grad—John Jude Palencar at 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 18, in CCAD’s Canzani Screening Room. Learn more about Palencar and the talk here.
About C.F. Payne
C.F. Payne is an illustrator and arts educator with a passion for drawing. His work has appeared in publications such as Time, Der Spiegel, the New York Times, Rolling Stone, MAD, Boys Life, Atlantic Monthly, AARP, the Wall Street Journal, and many other national and international publications.
John Lithgow’s The Remarkable Farkle McBride and Micawber, Steve Martin’s Late for School, and Mark Kelly’s Mousetronaut and Mousetronaut Goes to Mars are just a few of the 20 children’s books Payne has illustrated. Others include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Casey at the Bat, To Dare Mighty Things: The Life of Theodore Roosevelt and Ogden Nash’s Line Up for Yesterday. Payne’s work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, Norman Rockwell Museum, Mazza Museum, Cincinnati Art Museum, and others around the world. He is the subject of the movie: C.F. Payne: An American Illustrator.
Payne started his career in Dallas in 1980. Since then, he has received Gold Medals from the Society of Illustrators in 1993 and 1996 and Silver Medals in 1992, 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2001. He received the Hamilton King Award for excellence in illustration in 1995 and the Society of Illustrators Distinguished Educator Award in 2012. The National Cartoonist’s Society awarded Payne the Illustration Award in 2002 and the Book Illustration Award in 2003. In 2017, he won the Individual Artist Governor’s Award for the Arts in Ohio. Additionally, Communication Arts awarded him the Award of Excellence in 2020.
Payne lives in Ohio and continues to accept assignments and commissions from clients and individuals around the world. He enjoys speaking to students and professionals at universities, schools and art groups. He is director of the Master of Fine Arts in Illustration program at the University of Hartford.
Learn more about Payne at cfpayne.com.
Both the lecture and the drawing session are free and open to the public, and parking in campus lots also is free for visitors.
The drawing session with illustrator C.F. Payne is made possible with support from the Skestos Endowed Fund for Visiting Artists & Lecturers.
