{"id":10519,"date":"2014-09-19T15:39:59","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T19:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quantumnew.esu.edu\/insider\/?p=10519"},"modified":"2014-09-19T15:39:59","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T19:39:59","slug":"esu-alums-artwork-chosen-for-new-abc-crime-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/esu-alums-artwork-chosen-for-new-abc-crime-show\/","title":{"rendered":"ESU Alum\u2019s Artwork Chosen for New ABC Crime Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

East Stroudsburg University alumna Abigail Braman is involved in a crime drama, and the only way she got her hands dirty is through her paintings.<\/p>\n

If you watch ABC\u2019s new crime drama \u201cForever\u201d this season, you might get to see some original artwork by Abigail Braman \u201913.<\/p>\n

The ABC television network is renting the images of six of Braman\u2019s paintings, for use on the set of \u201cForever\u201d as posters in a character\u2019s room.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of those nights spent painting instead of sleeping worked in my favor,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\"abigail-2WP\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cForever\u201d premieres on Sept. 22 and 23, is about a medical examiner who works on criminal cases while trying to solve his own personal mystery: why he is immortal.<\/p>\n

Braman, a freelance artist and illustrator, was thrilled to have her work chosen for a show that will be televised across the country. It is all thanks, in part, thanks to two ESU professors.<\/p>\n

She thanks David Mazure, an assistant professor of Art + Design, and Yoshinori Tanokura, assistant professor of Theatre, for helping her make the connection with ABC.<\/p>\n

Mazure explains how Tanokura \u201csent me an e-mail saying he had a contact in the [comic book] industry who was looking for an illustrator to do a noir comic book.\u201d. Mazure thought of Braman, who graduated last December with a bachelor\u2019s degree in fine art with a concentration in art history for the gig.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought her style would be perfect,\u201d Mazure says. \u201cIt\u2019s unique. The way she used a very dark color palate with a dark type of scenery kind of lends itself to that noir style where there\u2019s extreme lighting with a lot of dark backgrounds. And she\u2019s a very talented illustrator as well so she could draw anything more or less. Whatever they needed her to draw, I was pretty confident she would be able to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mazure passed the information on to Braman, who applied for the noir comic book commission. The person she contacted turned out to be the art director for \u201cForever.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Art Director told Braman she really liked her portfolio but they were looking for something different for the comic book covers. The director did, however, ask to rent images of six of Braman\u2019s original paintings for the ABC drama. Braman was told the images might appear in Episode 6 of the first season.<\/p>\n

That connection and the national exposure Braman\u2019s artwork will receive is invaluable to an artist, says Joni Oye-Benintende, chairwoman of the ESU Art + Design Department.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce people know that somebody else wants you, it makes you that much more attractive,\u201d Oye-Benintende says. \u201cIt\u2019s good for her resume.\u201d<\/p>\n

Braman says she learned a lot about illustrating from Mazure.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe challenged me,\u201d Braman says. \u201cHe definitely helped me get better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Braman also credits Melissa Geiger, an associate professor of Art History, for fueling her passion for art history and helping her become a better student and a better writer.<\/p>\n

When Braman isn\u2019t painting and illustrating, she\u2019s making music and working part-time in the Big Bug Music store in Stroudsburg.<\/p>\n

Braman plays banjo, guitar and sings with the band, The Killer Pines, a Rockabilly\/Swing\/Folk music band that sometimes performs at the Sarah Street Bar & Grill in Stroudsburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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