I am a full-time parent and part-time artist living in Massachusetts. In a previous life I was a neuroscientist.
I have a bad habit of starting too many projects in too many different mediums. This website started as a strategy to motivate myself to actually finish projects (finish your projects so that you can write a blog post about them!) but then it just became another unfinished project itself…
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I took a couple drawing and painting classes in college, and I also took a summer class on comics through the CCA Extension program. Mostly I just experiment and ask friends for feedback.
My illuminated manuscript style work is usually done with iron gall ink (I use McCaffery’s Penman’s black), quill pen, G-nib pen, and egg tempera paint (I used the Sennelier premixed egg tempera, although I keep thinking about buying pigments and mixing my own paint…) on Pergamenata parchment paper.
My bigger paintings are mostly oil paint. I usually use Gamblin paints and Gamblin solvent-free gel.
My digital art is mostly done with Procreate on my iPad, but for some things I use Clip Studio Paint and sometimes I’ll go to the library to use their Adobe subscription. I used to have a Huion tablet that I found satisfactory (although not as good as the iPad), but it seems to have disappeared when I moved, which is very annoying.
Crochet, sewing, or other fiber arts projects probably have a blog post with materials listed.
Right now, my shop only sells and ships to the US because I haven’t figured out how to handle taxes and shipping fees for other countries. I’m sorry about that! If you are interested in buying something and live somewhere else, send me an email at [email protected].
There is a page for that.
I don’t speak any French, so I usually say it in the most American way possible. But if you would like to make it sound pretty and French, please go ahead!