As a freelance illustrator, sometimes something you create takes on a life of its own* and you see it being used all over the place. With it getting to be back-to-school time, I thought I’d share this.
This particular piece of art was created many years ago for the Discovery (Channel) Education Clip Art Gallery. I often see it (and rip-offs of it) as well as a lot of the hundreds of other pieces of clip art from the Gallery I created. I even saw some of my clip art being used at the chemotherapy infusion center where my late wife was being treated for metastatic hereditary cancer. Which, I might add, was actually heartbreaking on many levels.
Way back in 1999, there were basically no free online clip art galleries for educators, so Discovery licensed my whimsical collection for exclusive use. I had originally created much of the clip art for my elementary school teacher wife to use in the classroom and in newsletters to parents. Discovery used my clip art collection for twenty years until the contract expired and they changed their focus. However, since I still owned all rights to the artwork, I created my own website where the art can be downloaded for use by educators gratis at www.EducatorClips.com.
If you want to learn more about the history of my clip art, please visit the site. And if you ever want to see how others are using the posted image, just do a “thinking cap” image web search.
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*As you might imagine, my Thinking Cap art is just one of numerous creations to take on lives of their own. And sometimes it can be very frustrating. My Chartpak International Typeface Competition winner, La Fiesta (aka Tijuana), is an example of that.
