(photo courtesy of lynda.com)Artist and author Sharon Steuer loves the process of collaborating with contributing artists and members of the Illustrator WOW! team to produce the Illustrator WOW! Books.For three decades Sharon has pioneered the merging of traditional and digital art forms, including painting in Adobe Illustrator. Sharon's artwork often weaves together her oil paintings, drawings, digital paintings, photographs, and personal artifacts to explore and reflect fragmented memory. Awards for her artwork include the national Faber Birren Color Award, a Windsor Newton Painting award, an Artist Fellowship Grant from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts; her books have received three Benjamin Franklin Awards for "best computer book." In addition to being author of 14 editions of the Illustrator WOW! Books plus "Creative Thinking in Photoshop," Sharon's online video training courses are available on lynda from www.lynda.com/SharonSteuer (for a 7 day free trial use www.lynda.com/trial/SharonSteuer). Share is also a regular contributor to creativepro.com.Keep your WOW! up to date at WOWartist.com (www.wowartist.com)Visit her at: http://www.facebook.com/SharonSteuer | http://twitter.com/SharonSteuer | http://www.SharonSteuer.com