Project: Design a look for a new business.

for Angel yoga™, including a logo, business cards, brochure, and website.

Brochure and business cards completed 7/22/2010
Website is under construction.
website: angelyoga1.com

Project: I was hired to make a new visual image for this client.

for Threshold Therapies healing practice, including a logo, business cards, brochure, and website.

Brochure and website completed 12/18/2009
Business cards completed 1/12/2010
website: thresholdtherapies.com

Project: Logo

Logo design for Woodstock TimeBank
completed 12/20/2008
website: woodstocktimebank.org

This was the first version, then the coins were replaced with hands.

Project: Website Design

The HeavenWork
completed Jan. 2008 - I still update this site
website: theheavenwork.com

A website designed to be an introduction to the HeavenWork, a calendar of workshops, and a contact resource.

Project: Website Design

Elders Drum Project Inc.
completed in Jan. 2007 - I still update this site
website: eldersdrumproject.org

This was my first website and is in the process of a redesign.

Project: CD Package Design

Ubaka Hill - Beyond The Wind
completed 2006
website - ubakahilldrumsong.com

For this cover I photographed Ubaka and then designed the cover with all the different elements she wanted. I also did the art for the back cover and interior pages. Someone else put in the type.

Project: Logo Art

for Star Potter
completed 2006

I made this mandala from a photo of a lotus in a pond in her backyard.

website: learnenergyhealing.com

Project: Portfolio of Photoshop Work

completed 2006
Link to portfolio (pdf)

This portfolio has over 20 projects that show my abilities with photo-montages and photo retouching. Most of these were done for Spirituality & Health magazine, under the direction of Don Wright, during the 6 years that I worked there.

Project: Book

Angels & Orbs: A Visual Documentary
published 11/20/2009

I wrote and designed this book from start to finish.
It contains over 85 photos that I took. It is an experiencial artbook exploring the expansion of consciousness.

Look inside at Amazon.com

Project: Nature Photography

The Visitation
taken in 7/7/2009

This piece is currently being shown at my ImageKind Gallery
I used some filters in photoshop to make it look more painterly.

Project: Nature Photography

New Life
taken in 9/3/2009

This piece is currently being shown at my ImageKind Gallery
This is a photo from a series, Life of a Sunflower.

Project: Photoshop Illustration

Angel Wings
completed June 2009

This piece is currently being shown at my ImageKind Gallery
One of my best sellers, this piece speaks about the angelic energies coming into the earthplane at this time.

Crystal Star has been "freelancing" since she set up a studio in her closet as a kid. Her journey has taken her down many diverse roads, but the need to be creative, to reach into spirit and give back as art has always been a constant.

She started doing paste-up for local newspapers, then tried out board artist in various design firms, and then, finding a love for publications, she worked for 3 national magazines, moving from paste-up and layout into photo editing and montage creation.
They were:
Spirituality & Health Magazine, out of NYC, from 2000 - 2006
Ocean Navigator Magazine, out of Portland, ME., from 1988 - 1989
Outside Magazine, out of Chicago, from 1984 - 1987

She attended Paier College of Art in Hamden, CT, and then The Art Institute of Chicago for formal training: and she is always joining groups and taking classes and workshops as her interests and technology broadens.

SKILLS:
• Photo-retouching, montages, and optimization
• Graphic Design
• Illustration and Hand-Lettering
• Photography
• Proficient in Photoshop, InDesign, and Acrobat Pro; working knowledge of Illustrator and Dreamweaver.