A lifelong artist, Gretchen Kish Serrano

has always enjoyed painting. As a graduate

of Northern Illinois University, she studied

graphic design and advertising. While

working as an art director at Leo Burnett Advertising in Chicago on various accounts including Hallmark Cards, Gretchen also

studied at the Art Institute of Chicago.

These experiences together with the life-

changing adoption of Sophie, her rescued

beagle-whippet from the Anti-Cruelty Society 

in Chicago, has been the inspiration behind 

the creation of Paw Palettes.