Steve Norton: Traditional & Digital Media Artist

I was originally trained as a painter, as reflected in the hand-painted illustrations of my children’s book, Catnap. Though never published in print, the book was widely read online, attracting 7,000–15,000 monthly readers for over a decade before I took it down.

In the mid-nineties, I gradually shifted from working with traditional materials to creating art digitally. You can see this transition in Catnap, where many of the background elements were digitally created to complement the original scanned watercolors (see CATNAP).

Today, I work across various media, including photography, watercolor, drawing, digital collage, and mixed media—I use whatever tools inspire me.

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