• Name: Joanna Michalak
• Nickname: Ellaine
• Birthdate: June, 3th 1978 (Gemini)
• Country/City: Poland/Lodz
• Occupation: freelance artist/Germanist (theory of literature)
• Interrests: art, literature, film, music, history (esp. The French Revolution), history of fashion, psychology, horsemanship, mountains - a little bit of everything
• Tools: pencil, watercolour, ink, coloured pencils, pastels, charcoal, Corel Painter and Photoshop

PUBLICATIONS

~2008~

• Two Questions&Answers Tutorials done for Corel Painter Official Magazine
• Renaissance Painting Tutorial done for Corel Painter Official Magazine
• Picturesque Painting Tutorial done for Corel Painter Official Magazine
• Art Nouveau Tutorial done for Corel Painter Official Magazine
• Almost Like Mrs. Siddons published in Exotique 4
• Paint like Gainsborough Tutorial done for Corel Painter Official Magazine
• Morgan published in Adele Lorienne S.' Artbook The Art of Faeren & The Art of Morgan
• Paint like Renoir Tutorial done for Corel Painter Official Magazine
• Promotional material for the Polish premiere of J.K.Rowling's "Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows" done for Empik
• Paint like Klimt Tutorial done for Corel Painter Official Magazine

~2007~

• Painter Ink Tutorial done for Corel Painter Official Magazine
• Moonlight Lullaby published in Expose 5

~2006~

• cover illustration and 10 interior illustrations for E. Bialolecka's "Roza Selerbergu", done for AW RUNA
• 2 internal illustrations for E. Bialolecka's "Naznaczeni Blekitem II ", done for AW RUNA

~2005~

• 5 internal illustrations for E. Bialolecka's "Naznaczeni Blekitem I", done for AW RUNA

~2002~

• 6 illustrations for Christoph Ransmayr's "Morbus Kitahara" published in "Erinnerung, Gedaechtnis, Geschichtsbewaeltigung. Oesterreichische Literatur der neunziger Jahre".