After having completed her A.A.S. degree in Multimedia Design and Production in December 2009 at Lake Washington Technical College, she decided to continue on directly to complete her Bachelor's degree. Chelsea was delighted to be accepted to Cornish College of the Arts as a transfer student for the Spring 2010 semester, and plans on completing her B.F.A. in Visual Communication Design by Spring 2012.
Chelsea Martin has been doing art since her middle school years. It started as doodles in the margins in her notebooks, and grew from there. As she realized her talent, she decided to enroll in more art classes to try to develop it, culminating in a year of Advanced Placement Studio Art in her senior year of high school.
Ms. Martin has always enjoyed and appreciated the fine arts, but she had a special flair for the digital arts as well. Throughout high school she continued to produce digital works of art using programs such as Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop, and Corel Painter.
Unfortunately, as she started her college years, Ms. Martin simply could not find the time to do the big digital works of art like she used to. But that did not stop her from attending the art classes her private liberal arts college offered her. It was in her first year of school at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA, that she discovered her love for oil painting. The techniques learned in that single class have been invaluable to her artistic style.
Ms. Martin is fluent in the following programs
in both Macintosh and PC platforms:
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe ImageReady
- QuarkXPress
- Jasc Paint Shop Pro
- Corel Painter
- Microsoft Frontpage
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Microsoft Excell