About
Lisa Grabenstetter was raised by trees. Or among trees, depending on how you'd like to phrase it. As a youngster, she had great hopes of becoming a Paleontologist. Eventually she realized that being a paleontologist didn't mean what she thought it meant, an if she wanted to be the one drawing the dinosaurs she'd better become an artist. Her love of dinosaurs and other monstrous and winged things has not departed, and continues to show up in her work.
Lisa
draws inspiration from artists of the symbolist movement, from art
nouveau, and from contemporary fantasy and comic book illustrators. Her work is primarily
in ink, graphite, and watercolor. Occasionally she has the good luck of being asked to print something.
A 2008 graduate of The Cleveland Institute of Art, she has a BFA in
Printmaking and a minor in Drawing. Lisa currently resides between DC and Baltimore. She likes DC better.