Denise Howard
PAL Instructor since 2018
Once she committed to pursuing art as a second career in 2010, she quickly earned regional, national and international recognition and awards for her realistic colored pencil and graphite work.
About
Denise Howard holds a BA in Art and a BS in Math/Computer Science from Truman State University. She also holds an MS in Computer Science from Ohio State University. She worked for several Silicon Valley companies, was one of the original developers of iPhoto at Apple, and earned movie credits on Antz and Shrek at PDI/DreamWorks. Once she committed to pursuing art as a second career in 2010, she quickly earned regional, national and international recognition and awards for her realistic colored pencil and graphite work.
She is the author of 101 Textures in Colored Pencil from Walter Foster Publishing. She has won awards in the International Art Renewal Center Salon, Artists Magazine Annual Art Competition, the United Kingdom Coloured Pencil Society International Exhibition, the Colored Pencil Society of America International Exhibition, the Salon at the Triton Statewide 2D Competition, and others. Her work has been published in several books, and she is popular as a workshop presenter.
She is a signature member of Colored Pencil Society of America, the UK Coloured Pencil Society, and the Pencil Art Society, and is national Communications Director for CPSA.
