Hi! I'm Cheri

I am an Artist, in the last ten years I have turned in my conventional artist's tools and have gone strictly digital!

About Cheri Scheffer
Clearwater, Florida

For twenty-some years Cheri has been producing Architectural Renderings for Architects, Engineers and Developers from all over the world. She also creates custom sculpture from her home studio.

When Cheri was five years old her father, the renowned Dutch-American Artist Jules E. Scheffer, founded Scheffer Studios Inc. in 1955, . In the course of Cheri's apprenticeship there she rose from staff artist, doing basic B+W graphic floor plans at the age of 16, to Art Director and Vice president, managing a full staff of Artists. She supervised the quality of the art production, as well as managing the day to day operation of the Studio.

Cheri has spent considerable time and resources researching adaptable computer technologies as they could apply to Architectural Rendering. Successfully converting the Studio from a strictly (not to mention messy) hand-painted production (highly dependent on the mood of the artists) to photorealistic high quality digital artwork.

Cheri's experience working on a primitive analog computer, which created crude almost "hand drawn" perspectives, set the stage for her quest of high technology and the search for the ability to rotate a realistic model in 3D space. It is a great advantage to the artist and designers alike.

Cheri has been involved in literally hundreds of innovative architectural designs from the Tampa International Airport to hi-tech office buildings in Saudi Arabia. Fluency with blueprint interpretation and her perspective expertise has been a definite advantage in discussing the Most advantagious details of a project with a client. She has gained valuable experience dealing with the large and derverse clientele.

Cheri is making great strides into the Internet. As a logical sequence of events to her working knowledge of computer graphics Cheri has earned a reputation as one of the leading computer graphics consultants. Repeatedly sought after as speakers for architectural and engineering groups and has made guest appearances on TV and radio stations.

Now that Cheri has become a Grandmother she has had to start turning down the request for appearences as it was taking up too much time away from her genuine passion of creating and spending time with her Grandaughter. Watching my grandaughter grow has as good of effect on me as a deep peaceful meditation, maybe better."

Associations:

Appointed by Pinellas County Commissioners to the Pinellas County Arts Council

Who's Who of American Women Artists

Member of the National Association for Female Executives

The Marquis Who's Who Publications Board

Dunedin Chamber of Commerce

Builders and Contractors Association of Pinellas County

Education:

Noter dam de Sion, Elementary, Kansas

St Mary's Middle School , Prairie Village, Kansas

Shawnee Mission High School, Kansas

Ursaline Academy, Paola, Kansas

Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia, Kansas

Continuing Adult Education, Johnson County J.C. Kansas

parapsychology, St Petersburg J.C. Florida

Minolta Photographic Training Seminars, Tampa, Florida

Florida Real Estate School, Clearwater, Florida

SoftImage Advanced Training, Dallas, Texas.

Hobbies and Interests

I used to have other hobbies but this extremely active four year old has managed to squash that idea! Oh well, they are only little for so short of time and I don't want to miss a minute of it!

I had to install her computer program on the hard drive, after she kept blowing it up truing to run it off the (slow) cdrom! She must have spent three hours on it all by her self! She could actually handle a mouse better, at three years old, than some adults I know! (sorry mom)

This is my cat.

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