Doris
Ettlinger
Doris Ettlinger is an illustrator
and teacher. Her work features fine
draftsmanship and a masterful use of traditional media, including pencil, pen,
watercolor, and oil.
Born
in Staten Island, New York, into a family with too many boys, Doris loved
to read and draw. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in
1973 and has been illustrating professionally ever since.
She received an MFA in printmaking from the University of Wisconsin -
Madison in 1977.
Doris’ illustrations have appeared in The New York Times, Forbes, Travel & Leisure and Newsday, as well as on book covers, advertisements, and educational materials. Doris collaborated with Renee Graef in illustrating Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House stories for HarperCollins. Doris’ recent projects include work for Houghton Mifflin, McGraw Hill, and Simon & Schuster. She is represented by Cornell & McCarthy of Westport, Connecticut. Her work appears in the Picturebook directory.
Doris
lives and works in a 150 year old grist mill on the banks of the Musconetcong
River in
Warren County, New Jersey with her husband, Michael McFadden, two teenagers (Ivy
and Benjamin), an eighty-something mother-in-law (Grandma), and a Welsh Corgi
(Margaret).
When she isn't drawing, care-giving or painting the siding, Doris teaches art at the mill.
