e-mail: slruff@comcast.net

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Illustration & Design - Styles range from simple black & white graphics to very realistic full color illustrations. See online PDF brochures for a variety of styles. brochure1 (996K), brochure2 (1.16MB)
Computer graphics- using Mac programs including Illustrator 8, Photoshop 6, ImageReady, and Dimensions 3.0 . Desktop publishing is done using Quark Xpress 4.0. Web site creation with Dreamweaver 4 & GoLive 4. Although I am Mac based, I also have a PC and am familiar with working with files between the two platforms.

Conventional Artwork- Color pencils, color markers, pen & ink (both technical and flexible quill), brush & ink, watercolor, gouache, pastel, oil paint, acrylic paint, cut paper, clay, acrylic clay.

Wildlife Paintings - watercolor & oils
Landscape - fundraiser print for Friends of Fox Chase Farm

Web - Web graphics and site production using Dreamweaver & GoLive. Create & Manage e-commerce site www.pennstateind.com.
www.atlanticpapers.com/ re-design and Miva store coming spring 2003
www.RSmakers.org/ design & maintain this site. I run a print advertising co-op for small art rubber stamp manufacturers.
www.unipew.com/ re-design and maintenance of this simple Miva Merchant site

www.claudiarose.com created a new e-commerce store in Miva Merchant

www.kenlaager.com/ portfolio website
Web graphic assistance for DigitalWave.com.
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Print - Concept & Design through production. Knowledge of 4+ color production.Projects include: Brother Sewing Machines, ScanBook series-Design, illustration and writing ( PDF sample). Clip art created for various national services, recent book for Dover Publications. Clients include: Brother International, Volk Clip Art, Graphic Products Corporation, Dover Publications, Penn State Industries, Tyco Toys, Binney & Smith, Comcast Metrophone and work for agencies and design houses in the Philadelphia/NJ/NY area.

Multi-Image & Multimedia presentations - Work as designer, art director, project manager, illustrator, producer and researcher for speaker support presentations to full-scale multi-image business presentations. Clients include: AT&T, ITT, Johnson & Johnson, Rhône-Poulenc Rorer Pharmaceuticals, Merck Pharmaceuticals,
Planters/Lifesavers, McNeil Pharmaceuticals, Castrol, Merrill-Lynch and Trump Plaza Casino/Hotel.

Video - Designer, animator, illustrator and assistant director. Worked primarily on industrial videos, interactive video & local TV graphics. Skills include doing storyboards, charts & graphs, computer animations and still graphics. I’ve worked on various computer systems including the Quantel Paintbox. I currently use a Mac G4. Clients include: Videosmith, Johnson & Johnson, Telequest Productions, DAK Productions, Schutte & Koerting, TV Guide, Forest Pharmaceutical, Interactive Video (IVCI), Banerjee Associates and WCAU-TV.

Film - Art director, designer, illustrator, animator, camera person and writer. Experience in Animation includes conventional cel animation, rotoscoping, stop action and cut paper. Projects include: Award-winning series of 11 short films titled “How Things Work”, originally shown on CBS’s original Captain Kangaroo show, then in syndication. Title sequence for Boeing Helicopter training film. Set design for the Warner Brothers film “On Deadly Ground”.

Computer Software - Completed 39 watercolor paintings for Macmillan Publishing Educational Software titled “Sights and Sounds.”. Graphic production for “Webster’s Children’s Dictionary” multimedia CD-ROM (for Software Toolworks).

Advertising Products - Design and production of all ad specialties. All wearable sportswear (silkscreen, embroidered and iron-on transfer) caps, pins, jewelry, mugs, pens, menus, signs and table tents.

Other Illustration Work - Through my company Painted Turtle Studio I had my own line of art rubber stamps for crafters. I recently sold the stamp company to Time To Stamp

I am starting up another rubber stamp company in Summer 2003.

Studied wildlife art and landscape in watercolor and oil with Frederick William Wetzel. Studied pastels with Deborah Camero. Taught drawing and watercolor painting to adults and children in the Bucks County, PA area. Taught basic drawing, mechanical preparation and commercial art at the Art Institute of Philadelphia. (former) Member of the Society of Craft Designers and the Association of Crafts and Creative Industries (ACCI).