Small Towns, Wisconsin Southwest Region Winter 2014 | Page 23

This business is on the Cloud! Sign up to recieve their deals In the village of Brooklyn, there is a small company called Moonlight Designs Studio. On the surface, it looks like your typical design company--busy cranking out marketing materials for local small businesses. As it turns out, however, the creative mind behind it all is…a painter? Brit grew up dreaming of the arts, honing her skills by drawing the latest Disney characters repeatedly in hopes of one day becoming an animator. By high school, she was drawing her own comic strip detailing the shenanigans of her classmates. Eventually she moved past the idea of animation and decided she wanted to become a painter and teach art. From then on, her schedule filled with art classes. Although Brit loved to paint, she also fell in love with using Paint on the family computer, as she could now draw and color to her heart’s content, finding the perfect color schemes for her designs before finally putting brush to canvas. Paint, then Photoshop, became the blank canvas on which she would see a figure start to appear, waiting to be finished. After realizing that all of her paintings were starting out in Photoshop, Brit decided that computer design was the wave of the future and switched her degree in Fine Arts to a Computer Imaging emphasis (with a minor in painting, which she still loved). What tied together the worlds of painting and design for Brit was when she designed her first bus ad, in what was also her first time designing for print. She was so excited when she passed a bus displaying her artwork for the first time, realizing that the entire city had now become her gallery. She was no longer simply a painter, but a digital painter with the world as her canvas. As a multimedia designer, Brit looks at each new file or web page as a canvas waiting to be painted, and loves the way that a design comes to life, stroke by stroke and layer by layer, growing to match the image in her head. email. [email protected] | www.moonlightdesignsstudio.com www.facebook.com/moonlightdesignsstudio | www.twitter.com/MoonlightDS2012 www.cloudknocker.com/B007 Also at: www.Facebook.com/SmallTownsWI | www.Twitter.com/SmallTownsWI | www.Instagram.com/SmallTownsWI p.23