Tiffanie Mang

Tiffanie Mang is an illustrator and plein air artist born and raised in San Diego. Aside from working in the animation industry as a freelance concept artist, Tiffanie’s biggest passions is telling stories and creating landscapes through shapes and light landscapes in gouache and digital media. In 2016, Tiffanie was hired as a painter animator to work on Loving Vincent, the world's first fully hand painted feature film in oils, about the final years of Vincent Van Gogh. The film was a 2018 Oscar nominee for Best Animated Feature. Flying over to Gdansk, Poland, she worked on the film for 6 months. It was an absolutely incredible experience that changed the direction of her life. Tiffanie knew that when she went back to the states, she had to pursue her passion for fine art more and make it a reality. After living in LA freelancing as a concept artist for various studios including Fiction LA, Mustache Productions, HuevoCartoon and BartKresa Studio, Tiffanie moved back to San Diego in 2018 to pursue her passion as a fine artist. Since then, she has taught many gouache workshops in San Diego, Los Angeles, Georgia, and even internationally. Since then, Tiffanie has been in more than 21 gallery shows, and has participated in plein air painting competitions around the world such as Capitola Plein Air 2019, Plein Air Curacao 2019 (awarded second place for her final competition piece “Morning Shadows on Maduras Street”) and the Pacific Northwest Annual Plein Air Competition (awarded the National Scenic Award for her piece titled “At the Top of Mosier”). As a traditional painter and digital artist, Tiffanie is always striving to explore the possibilities of how she can combine her traditional painting skills with digital media to create engaging narratives. Tiffanie currently lives in San Diego as a freelancer and gouache painting instructor. She also recently launched her own online 8 week painting mentorships in 2020, working with 5-8 students each term to help them bring their digital and traditional painting skills to the next level.