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Cat

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About Me

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Graduating in 1994 with a Bachelors degree in Fine Art from the University of Texas, San Antonio, Cats specialty was in portraits. She put these skills to the test in late 2004 illustrating over 130 cards for the Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith project. Staggs says she loves the fact that all fans have a chance to be mini-art collectors thanks to Topps. Many fans that collect the Topps Artist Sketch Cards may recognize Staggs' uniquely realistic style from her portraits of such characters as Darth Vader, General Grievous, Chewbacca, Yoda and her favorite Jedi, Obi-Wan Kenobi.
The highly-collectible artist sketch cards brought Staggs into the Star Wars fan forefront and she quickly took on other projects including a Celebration III Convention exclusive print, drawing tutorials, and Halloween masks for the kids section of starwars.com.
Last fall, Topps returned with another sketch card project, this too for a large franchise, The Lord of the Rings:Evolution. This time, Cat completed over 500 mini masterpieces, each one as unique as the last. She also ventured out into color with a good portion of the total in full color. She was pleased to join the other forty-eight artists involved in one of the best selling sets, having sold out of the hobby edition in its first week.
Spring 2006, Cat again was asked to work on another sketch card project for Breygent. This set would be for the classic Wizard of Oz. She completed 250 cards, including 50 full-color, large format cards. While working on this project, another came to her desk: X-Men: The Last Stand for Rittenhouse(page 1 and 2). Cat completed 300 cards. Both sets released in the summer of 2006.
In between card projects, Cat has also worked on cover work, including two covers for Mortal World entertainment as well as a collector's edition program cover for the Dallas Comic Con featuring Karen Allen.
The end of 2006 included sketch card projects featuring 200 5" x 7" cards for the Complete Marvel Avengers, 231 cards forThe Lord Of the Rings Masterpieces and 300 cards for Universal Monsters: Frankenstein.
Upcoming projects include Hellboy: Sword of Storms sketch card set another exclusive print for Lucas Film and Celebration IV as well as a project for DC Comics and various other sketch card sets.
Lord of the Rings Masterpieces will be updated regularly until the cards release in October 2006
The 2006 Sketchbook
"Can I borrow your underpants for ten minutes?"
is available through airbrushcat.com web store

My Interests

ART, Movies, TV, Music...typical I know...watching sports..GO CUBS!! someday...maybe..it could happen. Playing softball. Going to Basketball games, men and women...Talking shop with fellow artists. Having a great time with friends and loved ones..chatting on the computer when I should be working.

I'd like to meet:

Friends and Relations..oh and people who just want to quote movies ad nauseum

Music:

Anything from the 70's..Earth, Wind and Fire to Charlie Daniels Band...Bee Gees to Kiss.. I mean ANYTHING..80's, new wave, british invasion, punk,pop you know..the stuff that made MTV so good) up to 1985 then it gets kinda..."I wanna dance with somebodyish"..Cyndi Lauper, Go Go's, The Who, Blondie, Elton John,Techno Music that makes you dance your ass off untill 4 AM. Robbie Williams; the Killers; Franz Ferdinand; 5,6,7,8's; Daft Punk;

Movies:

hmm..lemme think..um..Star Wars, Blade Runner, JAWS, Bond movies, Bourne movies, Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, Ferris Buller, Weird Science, Lord of the Rings, John Waters Films, Tommy, Spinal Tap, Best in Show, Amelie, Poltergiest, Tron, Close Encounters of the Third Kind; American Werewolf in London, Baseball movies(Bull Durham, League of Their Own,Bad News Bears,ect), Magnolia, Boogie Nights, Life Aquatic, Almost Famous, Kill Bill 1 and 2, The Exorsist 1 and 3, The Goonies, A Christmas Story, Akira, Princess Mononokee, Casshern, Sin City, Batman Begins, Spider-man, Superman, II, Returns, Fire and Ice(Bakshi), Yellow Submarine, Silence of the Lambs, The Omen, Planet of the Apes series, Run Lola Run, Flash Gordon, Indiana Jones series, Sean of the Dead, The Quest for the Holy Grail and the Meaning of Life and anything else Python, Anchorman, Meatballs, AIRPLANE!!, RENT, Moulin Rouge, Bound, Hedwig and the Angry Inch Grease and Grease II (sue me)Victor/Victoria(!!),Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (wanna make something of it?), Xanadu..ok.. I think you may have an idea

Television:

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TNT-They know drama.Law and Order, any version; Without a Trace; CSI; CSI:Miami(gotta love Caruso one-liners) Saturday Night Live; Family Guy; Futurama; Daily Show; Weeds; the L-Word(duh);Dexter; Heroes; Cubs games...I can't help myself; sports in general; oh and I have an amazing addiction to BRAVO(can you say Workout..*sigh), TLC(oh Stacie London, please tell me What Not To Wear), and BBC America(There has to be Cash in my Attic somewhere),Boomerang(bringing Saturday Morning back everyday!), VH1 Classic..love it but it makes me feel old.

Books:

Oh I wish I had the time to read more often, but when I do it is a nice forensic mystery.. Cornwell mostly. Stephen King, Anaïs Nin, some comics here and there.

Heroes:

My Mom and Billie Jean King. Art wise.. Michelalngelo, Caravaggio, Da Vinci, Mary Cassatt, Tamara De Lempicka, Norman Rockwell, Georgia O' Keefe, Frank Frazetta, Ralph Bakshi, Chuck Jones, Charles Schultz, Hanna/Barbara, Drew Struzan.

My Blog

Cat is Accepting Commissions....really!?

That is right folks after a year and a half...I actually have enough time to work on projects AND take on a few commissions a month. So that being said..here we go.Depending on what is commissioned(ca...
Posted by Cat on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:54:00 PST

Orphan Works Legislation

Reposted:Protect our rights as ARTISTS to own our works ! Do not let the Orphan Works bill to pass !Its about us as artists loosing the rights to our work.[link]You HAVE to listen to this!this is the ...
Posted by Cat on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:17:00 PST

Lord Of The Rings Masterpieces II Auction

Galadriel is on the block    ...
Posted by Cat on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:08:00 PST

Heroes Cards are Go!!

Second return Card up for Auction    ...
Posted by Cat on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:38:00 PST

This Weekend!!! Jan 12-13

I am off to Dallas this weekend for the Dallas Comic Con!! Hope to see some of you there!!! ...
Posted by Cat on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:44:00 PST

How to Draw...

I recently submitted another How to Draw for starwars.com. It is now up on the Official site in the star wars kids section. Get those pencils ready!!...
Posted by Cat on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:21:00 PST

Star Wars Tie-Shirt design

HA!! they are UP!! I was asked by starwars.com to submit a design for the new Hyperspace Membership t-shirt. It is now up for a vote with four other designs. Man I wish I had time to come up with som...
Posted by Cat on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:44:00 PST

Still time to Vote!

Poll closes on December 11th!I was asked by starwars.com to submit a design for the new Hyperspace Membership t-shirt. It is now up for a vote with four other designs. Man I wish I had time to come up...
Posted by Cat on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:18:00 PST

Young King Arthur

Wow..I can actually show something I have worked on...go figure I was asked to do a pin-up for Mike Oeming's "Mice Templar". My job was, oddly, a human character pin-up. I was asked to create a young...
Posted by Cat on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:20:00 PST

They Were Expendable Update!

UPDATE! I guess the Gods of Star Wars shop are feeling gracious as they have left these up longer than anticipated. I know I am grateful, as are the 8-9 folks who bought one over the weekend!! Thank ...
Posted by Cat on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:08:00 PST