About The Artist
© Melanie Linden Chan
I've always been an artist. As a child, I drew up treasure maps and blueprints for my dream castle (which always included a drawbridge and moat), made up my own little books and starred in my own little plays, and I guarded every new box of Crayola crayons like a tigress guards her cubs. (Wasn't very good at sharing my art supplies.)
I have a Bachelor in Fine Arts from the University of Rhode Island, currently enrolled in RISD's Children's Book Illustration certificate program, and am a member of SCBWI. I work in a variety of mediums; my current favorites being pen & ink, watercolor, and acrylic. I often work with mixed mediums or collage and sometimes play around with my wood-burning tool. And some days I even work with frosting.
My goal as an artist and writer is to create books for children that open their minds to different cultures and other ways of life. To teach them to value and respect one another and our planet. To make them laugh or help them cope when they want to cry. And to make the world a better place, one book at a time!
I have a Bachelor in Fine Arts from the University of Rhode Island, currently enrolled in RISD's Children's Book Illustration certificate program, and am a member of SCBWI. I work in a variety of mediums; my current favorites being pen & ink, watercolor, and acrylic. I often work with mixed mediums or collage and sometimes play around with my wood-burning tool. And some days I even work with frosting.
My goal as an artist and writer is to create books for children that open their minds to different cultures and other ways of life. To teach them to value and respect one another and our planet. To make them laugh or help them cope when they want to cry. And to make the world a better place, one book at a time!
