Karen Theusen Designs

Karen has been creating illustrations and painting murals for over 25 years as a published illustrator of children’s books, magazines, and a line of coloring and note cards. Her murals can be viewed around Bellingham, WA: outside back of Pepper Sisters, inside the restaurant EAT, plus the Mc Donald’s Play Places in Whatcom County to name a few, in addition to all the numerous residential murals in this area, Seattle and around the country.
She is inspired by the different elements of our environment such as form, texture, nature and color. The love of experimentation with different styles, mediums and subjects is an integral part of her work. For 12 years she painted murals in model homes for a developer in Seattle. Each new housing development had multiple homes built near the sales office, all with different themes and color schemes. It was in this environment that the love of various styles and ways to work was born and nurtured. She believes that it’s the variety in art and the different ways to “see” things that keeps her artistic fires going.