About

Annie Link is an interdisciplinary artist whose experience ranges from art direction, conceptual design, and illustration to physical production and implementation. Her work focuses on environments, portraiture and narrative illustration and is inspired by mythology, sacred traditions, poetry, literature, and her own travels.

Annie attended the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, graduating with a B.A. in Concept Art for Game Development. While at school, she studied both traditional and digital methods for illustration and design.

Annie has been working as a freelance artist for over 10 years and is excited to share her skills and love of art with her students. She is currently teaching at Lumen Gentium Academy and Our Lady of Mount Carmel School.

In her free time she enjoys exploring new places, questing for the best third-wave coffee, long walks, getting lost in books, video games, and of course drawing and painting. Annie and her husband Brenden currently reside Boonton, NJ.

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A fun acrylic painting I did for the playbill cover of the OLMC middle school production of Twelfth Night. Looking forward to seeing the students performance tonight!
In my painting class we have moved from black and white into color. We been studying the Zorn palette and creating our own Zorn palette color charts. The Zorn palette is a limited palette of colors used by the artist Anders Zorn (1860-1920). The pale
Some B&W spheres and 5-value scales from my students. Definitely harder than it looks at first, but a good exercise for getting used to any medium and learning value control, blending and how to create hard and soft edges.
Some of my freshmen and sophomores' charcoal portraits of each other. Very proud of them and their work this semester. Next week, starting acrylic painting with the juniors and seniors.
Wrapping up a semester of teaching figure drawing and charcoal portraits. These are portraits I did of two of my students, Siena and Alex to have as sample portraits for next time I teach the class.
Corfe Castle, Dorset, England. Acrylics on canvas. Painted this over the weekend in my new studio set-up.
Visited St. Bernard's church in Keene. Everywhere you look inside there is gorgeous art. Unfortunately a novice photographer with a phone camera doesn't do it justice. Definitely stop in for a visit if you are traveling nearby.