For the past three decades, Sharon Steuer has pioneered the merging of traditional and digital art forms. Sharon’s recent artwork weaves together oil paintings, digital paintings, drawings, photographs, and personal artifacts in an exploration of fragmented childhood memory. She is the author of the bestselling Adobe Illustrator WOW! Books, andCreative Thinking in Photoshop, and she regularly contributes to CreativePro.com, hosts and curates the #DigitalArtistSpotlight at AstuteGraphics.com, and teaches digital art courses on lynda.com (www.sharonsteuer.com/lynda). Sharon has been honored to receive the Faber Birren Color award, a Windsor Newton Painting award, three Benjamin Franklin Awards, and an Artist Fellowship Grant from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. Sharon’s painting studio is in the Mission district in San Francisco.