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I've been making funny pictures since I could hold a crayon. In fact, you may already own a piece of art that I've created in my long career as an illustrator. On your shelf may be one of the 150 book covers I've done such as "Beast" by Peter Benchley, or "Gone With The Wind" by Margaret Mitchell. Or perhaps in your cupboard is one of the over 40 packages I created for Celestial Seasonings products like "Morning Thunder." How about that box of Claritin in the medicine cabinet?


Jerry LoFaro

After ruling out his initial career choices as a paleontologist, zoologist,
baseball player and Good Humor ice cream man, Jerry LoFaro employed his
lifetime interest in dinosaurs, animals, fantasy, art history and literature
into a successful career as an illustrator. His formal art education was
spent at S.U.N.Y., New Paltz in 1980-81, while his most important lessons
came later in figure drawing classes at the Art Students League of New York.

Jerry LoFaro's art can be seen on the book covers of most major publishers
including Random House, Harcourt, Ballentine, Avon, Bantam, Time Life, and
Viking Penguin. Jerry has also created advertising and promotional illustrations
for a wide variety of clients such as: Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Barcardi, Conoco, Aflac,
Levi's, Disney, Claritin, National Georgraphic, Discovery Channel, Time Magazine,
Nike, Panasonic, Air Canada, Minolta, San Francisco Ballet, Haagen-Daz, Trojan,
Kellogg's, IBM, AT&T, Jacksonville Jaguars and The MGM Grand Hotel. He is
especially enjoying his relationship with Celestial Seasonings Tea and has
created art for over 40 tea boxes & products and tins during the last few years.

In addition to Jerry's work being selected for twelve Society of
Illustrators Annual Shows, he has also exhibited many paintings in
Communications Arts Annuals, Spectrum, Expose, Graphis, Applied Arts,
and the Encyclopedia of Airbrush Techniques, among others.
Articles about his art and career have appeared in The New
York Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Manchester Union Leader, Concord
Monitor, The New Yorker, New Hampshire Magazine, Advanced Photoshop Magazine
and in Airbrush Action Magazine, where he is a regular contributor.

Jerry was awarded a medal from The Society of Illustrators of L.A.'s 32nd
Exhibition and Awards for the best in advertising in Spectrum Vol. I, II,
and VI. In 1996, he was presented The Vargas Award for lifetime achievement
in illustration and for his contributions to the airbrush industry. In 2007 he earned
The Grand Master Award from Ballistic Publishing's "Expose", a collection of the
year's best digital art.

Jerry lives and operates his studio in Henniker, New Hampshire with his wife
Kathleen and son Gregory. An extensive collection of his art can be seen at
http://jerrylofaro.com/

I've been making funny pictures since I could hold a crayon. In fact, you may already own a piece of art that I've created in my long career as an illustrator. On your shelf may be one of the 150 book covers I've done such as "Beast" by Peter Benchley, or "Gone With The Wind" by Margaret Mitchell. Or perhaps in your cupboard is one of the over 40 packages I created for Celestial Seasonings produc... More