Jaime Zollars

***"And when I asked why he supposed I might be able to do the impossible, he said, 'Because I believe you are special.'"*
Liao to Lucy on Blister, *Bluecrowne*, p. 133
*This article is on a subject existing outside the universe of the Greenglass House series.***

## Biographical information

### Family

* Husband
* Son
* Daughter

## Association information

### Affiliations

Greenglass House series

****J******aime Zollars** is the artist of the covers of the Greenglass House series, as well as the illustrator of *Greenglass House*, *Ghosts of Greenglass House*, and *The Thief Knot*. She lives in California with her husband, son, and daughter. In addition to illustrating novels, she has written multiple picture books.

## Official biography

Jaime Zollars began making art at a young age, but her illustration career didn't take off until second grade, when she started drawing unicorns on friends’ Trapper Keepers for shiny nickels. She went on to draw local library brochures and elaborate student council campaign ephemera, quickly sealing her fate. To make it official, Jaime spent seven years in college, earning a BA in photography from UMBC in 1999, and a BFA in Illustration from the Art Center College of Design in 2003.

While waiting for her first illustration jobs, Jaime worked as an extra on movie sets, tried out for every game show imaginable, and went for runs on the beach, because this is what people do in Los Angeles. Five game show appearances and a first (and last) marathon later - she was making art full-time.

Jaime has illustrated children’s books, magazines, newspapers, and ad campaigns. Her clients include Little, Brown Books for Young readers, United Airlines, Random House, The American Red Cross, Simon & Schuster, Scholastic, Clarion Books, Quarry Books and the L.A. Weekly. She has also created artwork for galleries including Copro Nason, Gallery Nucleus, and Giant Robot.

Jaime’s art has been recognized by a bunch of great publications and societies, including Taschen’s Illustration Now, American Illustration, Communication Arts, The Society of Illustrators, 3x3, Spectrum, Curvy Australia, Design Taxi, XFuns Taipei, DPI Taiwan, BBC’s Culture Shock, Small Magazine, Creative Quarterly, the SI-LA, and the SCBWI.

Jaime happily lives and works in Newbury Park, California with her dashing husband, sarcastic 14-year-old boy, and sunny 9-year-old girl. While in Baltimore, Jaime was lucky enough to teach up-and-coming art superstars in both the MFA and undergraduate illustration programs at MICA (The Maryland Institute College of Art). Jaime has also served on several boards, including the Los Angeles SCBWI, the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles, and The Illustration Conference (ICON).

Jaime is inspired by fairy tales and Flemish painters, non-fiction books, forgotten paper, found textures, and flea market photographs. When she isn’t painting for commercial clients or gallery walls, you’ll probably find her eating eclairs, taking an improv class, reading up on North Korea, making mechanical paper toys, eating more eclairs, or driving her children to and from all of those activities she said she'd never drive her kids to and from.

## Trivia

* Sometimes, for inspiration, Jaime will go to bookstores and take note of which covers she likes, so that she can get an idea of what makes an eye-catching cover.
* She enjoys fairy tales and how they change overtime.
* Sometimes she will draw small things, pick what she likes best, blow it up, then add more detail.

## References

1. ↑ http://www.jaimezollars.com/about
2. ↑ https://birdmeetsworm.blogspot.com/2018/08/super-star-interviews-jaime-zollars.html
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://as.vanderbilt.edu/nashvillereview/archives/1911