Art Career Information

1. Artwork Portfolio
By Ms. Hadden &
Arts Career Information
for Students

2. Careers in the Field of Art
Arts Careers are flourishing with modern day
technology. Skills you learn in this course and other
more advanced levels we teach, can prepare students
for future employment opportunities in fields such as
Animation, Photography, Graphic Designer,
Architecture, Illustrator, Communications
Coordinator, the Sign & Silk Screening industry and
as Gallery Curators. This is mainly a compilation of
Graphic Design jobs, Gallery Artwork and Sign
Painting work I have been employed at over time.

3. Setpoint Inc. Web Design: Websites are made for each School’s
Automation controlling Kawartha District School Board’s buildings.
Controls entire buildings operational system (new technology)

4. Setpoint Inc. Page Layout. As the sole Graphic Designer at
Peterborough office, I was responsible for both the Public &
Catholic Schools operational updates throughout entire district.

5. Parts Illustrations-
Thermostat
Designed with
Adobe Illustrator
Illustrations designed by
myself on a computer were
often made with
Observational Drawing
skills by looking at “a real
Electrical part” sitting at my
desk. They had to be built
to scale with the utmost
accuracy to ensure School
Board Electricians and
Engineers could quickly
assess building functions.

6. Setpoint -Cross Section of Architectural drawing
Designed - Adobe Illustrator

7. Setpoint Inc. – Heater Sketch
Each buildings room temperatures could be monitored and
modified by engineering code from our office

8. Parts Illustrations-Boilers
I built part libraries of boilers
and other intricate parts
that were updated constantly
for the corporation, while I
also upgraded laptops for
School Board employees in
the maintenance departments.
Often working in an office
environment means you will
be multi-tasking and involves
a level of organization to
accomplish all of the work.

9. Wedding Invitation that I custom designed.
Upper right side is a ribbon addition that I marketed to match
brides choices of wedding colors. I also photographed teachers
and students at schools, weddings, real estate properties and
purebred agricultural animals. Freelance work is a great start.

10. Business Cards
Custom at Clients Request
Be sure you keep a
customer happy and
understand what their
needs are for it leads
to repeat business.
Some of these were
for my friends and family
and that is the
best way to start.
It lead into Agricultural
Sales Catalogues and
this turned into School
Photography & Graphics!

11. Tempera Washable Sign Graphics on Glass Windows for
Business/Restaurant & Nightclub Venues Sales Promotions

12. Tempera Washable Sign Graphics for Business/Restaurant &
Nightclub Sales Promotions. To get this weekly client I did a sample
painting on canvas because the boss selected the artist that way.

13. Gallery Sign
Installation
Project:
Totem
Painting
I researched
Native style
painted this
Totem Pole.
Volunteering at Artist Run Galleries lead me into my first
Public Relations Sales Job at a Privately Owned Public Art
Gallery where I met up with International Cliental.

14. Mixed Media Sketch &
Native Loom Weaving
with Seed Beads.
Jewellery pieces from 2011
Jewellery making is another art
form in itself for self-expression.

15. Found Art
Paintings for farm use
when exhibiting cattle at
Royal Winter Fair or at
4-H Club exhibits.
Rusty milk cans or
plough points were
sandblasted after finding
them in fields, given use
& new meaning.
Quilt was hand sewn
by Ms. Hadden after
studying Textile Arts
at Wilfrid Laurier U.

16. Ms. Hadden’s dog in watercolors: A King Charles Spaniel
A local Animal Portrait Artist in my area volunteers her skill to
paint shelter animals increasing their chances to find homes!

17. My Scottish Clan
Inherited Family Badge of Arms
Acrylics 2010
Ne Oublie-Never Forget
As an Artist you will always
paint the things that hold
Personal Meaning to you

18. James Graham of
Montrose
Historical Sketch 2010
“He either fears his fate too
much
Or his desserts are small
That puts it not unto the
touch
To win or lose it all.”

19. 2010 Painting-Grandma Little’s Passage from Scotland 1928
Built by the same company that made the Titanic, my
Grandmother sailed like many Scottish citizens to Canada
after the collapse of the Scottish shipbuilding industry
sponsored by the Salvation Army to work as domestics

20. Spitfire Painting Painted in 2010
This is the second airplane painting I ever did.
The first one was a commission sold to a Bank Manager and
included a pilot beside his plane in full military clothing.

21. Pastiche Painting Christian Art history of 2 time periods

22. Acrylics Still Life
Original Sold in 2010
while on display
at a local gallery
Galleries tend to charge
artists a percentage of the
sale price. A Consignment
Contract is often signed
binding the business and
artist to a financial
agreement.

23. Acrylics Original
collaboratively
painted by:
Jeannette Hadden-Boden
& her father, Douglas Hadden
Lifelong Learning

24. One of my father’s (Douglas Hadden) Decoy Carvings
SOLD to hockey legend Bobby Hull (father of Brett Hull)

25. Gesture Warm-Up Quick Sketches are often used by Artists

26. Conte
Pencil
Warm-Up
Sketch
At Senior Art levels
Warm-Ups are a great tool

27. Night Time Photography by Jeannette “Bay Bridge”
I had the opportunity to work with many Photojournalists
when I worked at School Photography
before I became an Ontario certified Teacher

28. Plaster Sculpture by Jeannette
Sold 2004 to a Real Estate Appraiser

29. Thank-You For Viewing
Questions or Comments?
The end
Watercolour Pencil Crayons
Butterfly Sketch from Nature
by Jeannette Hadden-Boden
Art is a fun
Subject for
Personal Growth
Don’t Be Afraid
To Experiment
These skills can be used
In the Real World!