Dear Artist,       Thank you so much for inquiring about doing art for GreenPrints! I depend greatly on the work of freelance illustrators-they bring the magazine to life! And I'm always on the outlook for new artists.       I need two things most of all:       1) Artists who can draw Both Plants And People. GP is not a normal garden magazine-one that focuses entirely on plants-it's about the relationship between humans and plants. Both partners in that weird cross-species relationship are part of most GP illustrations.       2) Artists who can Both Illustrate And Interpret. GP is a mag of stories, one that shares and illumines the experiences of plants and people. I need art that captures both the content of a story and the mood and meaning of it. It needs to show something from the story (to illustrate) and to share its feeling and impact (to interpret).       That's it, in a nutshell. (I'm assuming you're willing to draw to fit the prescribed space for a layout and to email or fax me a rough on stories so we can be sure we both agree on treatment.) Black & white art. I pay $75-200 a story and send you two contributor copies.       Here's the real hitch. The hardest thing for me to do is to figure out how to feel comfortable with a new illustrator, how to get a feel for what you do, to determine how well it fits with what we run, to decipher what kind of stories you might best be able to draw. I admit: it's really a stumper for me. Once I'm comfortable with an artist, I try to give him or her work almost every issue, but because I'm not sure what I'll get, I'm hesitant about assigning stories (and committing $$) to people whose work I don't really know. So anything you can do to help resolve my anxieties about working with an unknown illustrator (you) will greatly improve the chances of our working together. Send me samples (both people and plants), tell me a story you've seen in our mag you think you could have illustrated well, illustrate a story we've already run just to show me how well your work would go with what we do-anything! Help me want you! Best,             Pat Stone, Editor GreenPrints P.O. Box 1355 Fairview, NC 28730 pat@greenprints.com