Carol Coogan creates art, graphics and design for books, print materials, logos, signs, ads, websites, Music CDs, clothing, packaging, paper products, commissioned gifts and more., specializing in pen & ink, line art, acrylics, watercolor, gouache, mixed media, nature, charts, digital, informational graphics, editorial, decorative, PhotoShop manipulation. She also writes & illustrates the "Backyard Naturalist" a Times Union newspaper feature of upstate New York (since 2006), and is the weekly op-ed artist & cartoonist for the Altamont Enterprise, which she has won awards for from the New York Press Association. She also designs and illustrates cards and stationery for Crane & Co. Her "Common Loon" pen & ink drawing was exhibited in the "Focus on Nature X: Natural History Illustration Exhibit" and is now in the New York State Museum's permanent collection.