Greta Mantooth is obsessed...

with exploring cities big and small, buying vintage wrapping paper, snuggling her children, adopting rescue dogs she doesn’t need, becoming less afraid of snakes and listening to Billy Joel records. Her obsessions are many and varied.

But more than anything else, she is obsessed with books. 

Is there anything much better than getting good and lost in a wonderful book?

As a child, Greta made books with her parents to help figure out tricky situations, and later, laugh about them. (Like that one time at the doctor’s office when her usual pediatrician was nowhere to be found, and in her place was… a stranger! Can you imagine?)

As a grownup, she reads a LOT, gets an unfortunate amount of overdue emails from the library and writes and draws stories for kids. She likes to think she is in the hope-and-humor business, with a wink and a smile.

How?
Mark-making and color and patterns and lines are more of her many obsessions. Greta combines pencil drawings and gouache on paper with some digital magic to bring her stories to life. She sketches a lot, especially while trapped on a cold, hard, little league bleacher seat. 

What else?
Greta holds a B.F.A. in Illustration and an M.F.A. in Advertising Design from Savannah College of Art and Design. She hones her craft through art classes, group critique, and a very diligent school lunch note drawing practice.

Greta has lived and worked all over the United States, and has designed all kinds of goodies, like fancy beverage packaging (for grownups), punny holiday advertisements, and Halloween costumes for baby carrots. 

At home in Austin, Texas, Greta lives with her wonderful family (the Manteeth), including two smart, creative kids and two big rescue dogs. They eat lots of tacos, and read lots and lots of books.

Can we work with Greta?
Yes, please! Greta is represented by fellow dog- and book-enthusiast Natascha Morris at The Tobias Literary Agency. For illustration and book projects, please contact Natascha.

Greta is also a creative entrepreneur available for freelance design and brand illustration projects. (You can check out her commercial design portfolio here.)