I find few things as delightful as animals wearing flower crowns. For years, illustrator Mia Charro has imagined what cats, dogs, sloths, and even hippos would look like adorned with colorful blossoms placed atop their heads. I’m not the only…
I find few things as delightful as animals wearing flower crowns. For years, illustrator Mia Charro has imagined what cats, dogs, sloths, and even hippos would look like adorned with colorful blossoms placed atop their heads. I’m not the only…
The open water is full of contradictions. It can be a site of rebirth or intense distress; the same place that delivers an idyllic calm can become instantly tempestuous. Because of its conflicting nature, everyone’s relationship to the water is…
Illustrator Chris Hagan honors an analog way of creating imagery. He prefers working by hand to craft collages rich in texture and with a fantastical subject. And in a field where an illustrator’s career can go in any number of…
Lexi Mire is a wedding photographer who has unexpectedly created a booming career embroidering hats with colorful floral designs. Lexi’s first forays into stitching were just meant for herself until a friend asked her to embroider a blank hat. After…
Illustrator Aitch is inspired by the offline world. Citing “naive art, childhood memories, legends, and folklore” as fodder for her colorful and intricate work, her imagery recalls a world unsullied by digital technology. It’s refreshing and alluring, and her illustrations…
Raya Sader Bujana keeps plants that many of us dream of owning. While you might fret about the amount of sunlight your fiddle leaf fig is getting, she doesn’t have to worry about where the plant is placed. Her lifelike…
I’ve known Lisa Perrin for a long time. We met in graduate school nearly seven years ago and have been pals ever since; seeing Lisa’s work develop over that many years has been incredible. She went from not knowing how…
Artist Fleur Woods takes a multidisciplinary approach to her textile art. Combining elements of stitching and painting, her images have an ethereal quality that celebrates nature—in many ways. The impressive pieces are simultaneously figurative and abstract; they let the two…
Netherlands-based Lieke van der Vorst, aka Liekeland, is an illustrator creating scenes of a quiet existence that are sure to resonate with anyone who prefers their garden to the hustle and bustle of a booming metropolis. Her ballpoint pen and…
One of the best parts of being an independent maker is, of course, being independent. You’ve got the chance to experiment and expand your business because you find that there’s something lacking in the market. Michelle Galletta of Kiriki Press fame experienced…