Biography: Jim Mellett

I was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I studied art at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) where I received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in 1985. I also attended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh for two years. I am able to do many styles of illustration, but my primary commercial illustration work uses bright, liquid strokes of color in a form of graphic realism. As a free-lance illustrator since 1990, I have worked with publishers, designers, and agencies across the country. My longest running professional relationship is with White Mountain Puzzles of Jackson, NH www.puzzlemaps.com. I have completed over 20 puzzles for White Mountain since 1995, including some of their top sellers. My puzzle depicting Television History was White Mountain Puzzles’ number one selling puzzle for the year 2005. I have been lucky enough to have work accepted into the Society of Illustrators’ Los Angeles annual show #39. My sports art has won awards from Beckett Publications’ annual sports art gallery. I am the secretary and a founding member of the Pittsburgh Society of Illustrators (PSI) www.pittsburghillustrators.org. The PSI is the fourth largest professional illustrators society in the United States. My wife, daughter, and I live in Mt. Lebanon, a suburb of Pittsburgh.

List of Clients:

White Mountain Puzzles
Heinz
Fresh Express
Liberty Magazine/Dever Designs
The Pittsburgh Penguins
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Scobre Press
Grolier Publishing
Scott Foresman Publishing
Silver Burdett Press
Monsanto-Round Up
McKesson Pharmaceuticals
Nova Chemicals
Network World Magazine
Crestwood House/Simon & Shuster