About EILEEN Kansas City's ORIGINAL ARTIST
DRAWING THE CROWDS 35+ years
Widely known for her lively caricature artwork,custom illustrations and painting commissions, Eileen McCoy is a Kansas City artist who has a reputation for “drawing the crowds”. For over 35 years, Eileen provides proven professional art services, specializing in caricature art entertainment and custom orders.
Eileen is award-winning prolific painter. Essentially self-taught, the artist has enhanced her skills over the years with study in private studio settings and workshops with other prominent artists. She holds a degree from the University of Missouri in Speech Communications/ Public Relations/Art. Eileen’s award-winning paintings have placed first in juried exhibitions and are in collections world wide.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Her artist’s work resume began at Kansas City Hallmark Cards as a production artist where she honed her brush skills and line work. Then, as a freelance artist, she mixed and applied color to complex figurines in the Keepsakes Ornament department. She also worked as a display artist for Macy’s where she crafted large complex displays for merchandising.
Since then, in addition to Caricature art entertainment, her freelance services have been employed as a courtroom sketch artist, a muralist, a car-decal designer, a logo creator, an illustrator, landscape painter and portrait artist. She accepts commissions for both paintings and caricature artwork
CLIENT LIST
Artist Eileen has drawn over 3000 caricature art faces annually for private and corporate events. Custom paintings and caricature artwork for clients including Hallmark Cards Kansas City , Humana, Crossroads Hotel KC, KC Live, KC Jas Museum, Show Me Productions, H&R Block, Hy-Vee, Sprint, Kansas City Royals, Kendra Scott, KCTV 41 Live, At&t, KC Chiefs, Garmin International, Anne Taylor, Nebraska Furniture Mart, NARI, Price Chopper, KC Zoo, Curry real estate, local and national corporations & civic organizations; Numerous area hospitals, universities, colleges, magazines, publications, & municipalities; sports teams, teachers, students, employers, your neighbors, your friends, and the kid-around-the-block.