Artist Bio

Michelle Andersen lives in southern Oregon, with her two
children (an 8 year old girl and a boy nearing 7), and cat.
You can learn more about her personal life and see photos
on her myspace page where she goes by the alias kythcakat. She
also writes under the name M.S.Andie, and is often called Shelley.

Michelle specializes in what she likes to call "Fantasy-Realism."
While allowing her to work on improving her realism and portrait skills, it still leaves room for the imagination. You may notice the fantasy gallery of her portfolio is the largest, as she's always loved fantasy art and stories.

Michelle has been doing website and logo design for over eight years, satisfying clients in
northern California and southern Oregon with her creative skills. She has also done
concept art for video games (none of which made it past the concept stage unfortunately)
as well as character art and forum signature banners for players of role playing games.

Michelle is most comfortable working with graphite pencils, but has experience with more diverse materials. She has done some oil painting and sculpture and found these medias
fun and rewarding, but says she prefers pencils. She says she prefers pencils not for
the control they offer, but because "you don't have to wait for graphite to dry."

Along with being a full-time mother, website and logo designer, and freelance artist,
Michelle is pursuing a Bachelors degree in Video Game Art and Design through the Art Institutes, and works part time as a writing/computer tutor at the local community college.

Other than creating art, such as can be seen here, Michelle spends what little free time
she has doing other artistic things. She also enjoys writing (poetry, song lyrics, short stories,
and sometimes longer ones "that could become novels if I ever get around to finishing them"). You can read some of her writings at her deviantArt gallery. She also loves to sing, act, and dance,occasionally performing in local theater productions (she performed the role
of Laurie in Oklahoma! at the Ross Ragland Theater in the summer of 2005). She also
loves to sing karaoke, and occassionally opens for bands and sings at weddings.

Michelle also enjoys collecting and playing video games (she plays as kythcakat on xbox live; and you
can see her video game library on gamespot).
She is very passionate about wanting to create video games and help break the "girl gamer" stereotype.

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Last updated April 2010