Infected by Art Book - Volume 9

Julia Lundman is both a traditional artist and seasoned commercial artist in San Francisco, creating paintings and drawings inspired by myth, folklore and fantasy.

Julia graduated from the American Academy of Art in downtown Chicago in 1993. She began her professional career as a background painter in traditional animation and designed on two independent short films, "Heads Will Roll" (Dir. Wayne Brejcha) and visual art direction on "Stubble Trubble" (Dir. Joe Merideth), nominated for an Academy Award in 2000 in the Animated Shorts category. Her experience brought her to San Francisco to work in games and tv animation. 

During all the years of working in commercial studios, she studied after hours and on weekends at traditional ateliers and took many workshops near and far in the pursuit of learning traditional painting. She is now developing her personal work independently with a focus on fantasy, having been so inspired by books such as the CS Lewis Narnia series, Tolkein, and so many more.