Peter Strucic
Illustrator Peter Strucic was educated at the ‘School of Visual Arts in New York City and graduated with an honors BFA in 2003. Since then he has been a freelance illustrator and cartoonist residing in Westchester County, New York’. His work is dramatic and celebral, bridging that gap between the surreal and the grounded.
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arch102.03 2007 » Blog Archive » Best use of a polychrome stack of paper said | 24 July, 2007
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