Cliff Cramp's illustration work spans a wide range of genres in the entertainment industry; including background painting for animation, storyboard and visual development art for feature film, CD / DVD cover art, board games, editorial and book illustration.  His paintings have been exhibited in many international juried competitions.

In the year, 2000, a studio fire destroyed more than ten years of artwork. After the fire, Cliff switched to digital painting media for much of his illustration assignment work. He has received award-winning status on CGTalk, the largest online community of professional illustrators using digital media.  Cliff continues his freelance career while serving as area coordinator for the illustration program at California State University Fullerton. He instructs illustration courses in traditional and digital media.  

Cliff's artistic influences include John Singer Sargent, Howard Pyle, Harvey Dunn, NC Wyeth, James Montgomery Flagg, and Dean Cornwell.   His contemporary influences are too numerous to list.  

Cliff enjoys old things; old cars which he likes to tinker on, old houses which he would like to live in some day, old furniture which he likes to restore, and elderly people who he enjoys talking with.   He lives with his wonderful wife and two energetic boys in sunny Southern California.

juried competitions

2009 Corel Painter XI Software Release

2009, "Macworld 2009" San Francisco CA

2008, "Corel Digital Art Expo, Montreal Canada

2008, Imagine FX Annual

2008, Velocity, The Art of Motion, Hopkins MM

2007,"Corel Digital Art Expo, Montreal Canada

2007, "Expose 5, The Finest Digital Art in the Known Universe", Ballistic Publishing

2007, CG Society's Featured Artist

2007, American Illustration 26 disTRIBUTE Web Gallery

2007, Selection into the AutomotiveArtists.com website

2007, North American Motoring.com Photo Contest - Winner

2006, "The Journey Begins" CG Challenge, CGTALK , International Competition, 5 th Place

2006 "Painter, The World's Finest Painter Art", Ballistic Publishing

2006 "International Festival of Cinema and Technology 2006"

2005, Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, Illustration Contest #10, 1 st Place

2005 Fargo Fantasy Film Festival

2005 (March) ) CGTalk Digital Illustration Award Winner for Outstanding Work

2005, Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, Illustration Contest #10, 1st Place

2004, Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival for 2004, San Diego Convention Center,   San Diego, CA.

2004, 6 th Annual Artsfest Film Festival, Stage Two Underground at Whitaker Center, Harrisburg, PA.

2004, 2 nd Annual Transdimensional Short Film Festival, Long Beach, CA.

2004,  New York Short Film Festival, New York, NY

2004, 19 th Annual Made in California Juried Exhibition, City of Brea Gallery, Brea, CA.

2004. 2 nd Biennial Orange County Juried Exhibition, Muckenthaler Center, Fullerton, CA.

2003-2004,. Miniature Show, Mountainside Fine Art Gallery, Monrovia, CA.

2003. Denver Underground Film Festival, Denver, CO.

2003, Tucson Back Alley Film Festival, Tucson, AZ.

2003. New Hampshire International Film Expo. Tradeshow Expo Main Theater, Manchester, NH.

2003, SOCALPAPA Paints Back Bay, Peter and Mary Muth Interpretive Center, Newport Beach, CA.

2003. California Landscape Juried Exhibition, Artisans, Mill Valley, CA.

2003, Southern California Plein -Air Society juried competition, Costa Mesa CA

2002, Los Angeles Society of Illustrators   40 - International Illustration Competition

2002, Valleys and Vistas - California Plein-air Juried Show, Brea Gallery, Brea, CA

2002, Southern California Plein -Air Society juried competition, Costa Mesa CA

2000, California State University, Fullerton "Faculty Show" Fullerton, CA

2000, Eileen Kremen Gallery, 26 th Anniversary Show,   Fullerton CA

2000, Art of California Juried Show, Brea Gallery, Brea, CA

1999, Grand Central Art Gallery, Illustration Show, Santa Ana, CA

1997, Reconstructive Gallery, group show, Santa Ana, CA, March  

1997, Reconstructive Gallery, one man show, Santa Ana, CA, December

1996, Reconstructive Gallery, group show, Santa Ana CA, May

1996, Reconstructive Gallery, group show , Santa Ana, CA, December

1994, Images Gallery, Images of the West, Grass Valley, CA

1994, Orlando Gallery,   group show, Sherman Oaks, CA

1993, New York Society of Illustrators - international illustration competition

1992,  Los Angeles Society of Illustrators - international illustration competition

1991, Los Angeles Society of Illustrators - international illustration competition

film festivals - contribution to chuck grieb's film "exact change only"

2008, Newport Beach Film Festival

2007, Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIFF)

2007, Chicago International Children's Film Festival

2007, Hermosa Shorts

2007, Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival

2007, California International Animation Festival

2007, Jersey Shore Film Festival

2007, Los Angeles International Children's Film Festival

2007, Temecula Valley International Film Festival

2007, 2D Or Not 2D Animation Film Festival

2007, Merging Arts Short Short Film Festival