Artists
Rebecca Salinas Art
Rebecca Salinas is an artist who loves painting cats, especially her cats Noodle, Atlas, Squid and Haku. She says, “They are the loves of my life.” That love comes through in her work. Her cat portraits are unique in how they capture personality and dynamics, bringing their subject to life. She has limited custom portrait…
A Bit of Birdsong
A Bit of Birdsong is powered by Lynn, a paper and mixed media artist in North Carolina. She loves sharing junk journals, new ideas, and especially making journals from trash and recycling. She publishes regular uploads of what she’s making, new things she’s found to work with in her workshop (which she calls “Papertown”), tutorials,…
Abrian Curington
Abrian Curington is a visual storyteller, cartographer and part-time sailor. For the last nine years, she’s been making and publishing comics through her company Blue Cat Co., resulting in multiple digital releases and three successful Kickstarter pre-orders for a full-length graphic novel (Woolmancy) and two graphic novellas. She incorporates her childhood love of science into…
Merry Blackbird Postcard Society
The Merry Blackbird Postcard Society is a community for lovers of vintage art aesthetics and “the gift of traditional mail” hosted by illustrator, printmaker, and bookbinder Marlowe Lune. Lune is a queer, non-binary illustrator who draws inspiration from the late 19th and early 20th century to create work that speaks to modern audiences in the…
silvi alcivar (the poetry store)
Since 2008, Silvi, The Poetry Store poet, has written and sold thousands of poems throughout the San Francisco Bay area and beyond (including Antarctica). In addition to creating on-the-spot poems, Silvi’s artwork has shown at numerous galleries and has been featured in 7×7 magazine, Daily Candy, the San Francisco Chronicle, Style Me Pretty, Weddings Unveiled…
Babs New
Babs New is a cartoonist, illustrator and art model. Their first all-ages comic book, “Billy Johnson and His Duck are Explorers” was published in 2020. They’ve been an art model for several years and have posed for numerous artists and classes. They also host Figure Drawing Club, a monthly membership that allows you to join…
Meg Hunt
Meg Hunt is an illustrator, mentor and maker of things. You may recognize her work from picture books like “Interstellar Cinderella,” “Reading Beauty,” “Werewolf There Wolf,” “Send a Girl The True Story of How Women Joined the FDNY” and more. A Society of Illustrators gold medal recipient, she has done work for New York Times,…
Birdstrips
Birdstrips is a daily webcomic about birds and what it means to be human, created by Jess. Patreon supporters get extras like digital wallpapers, process pictures and videos, sketchbook pages, and workshops. In addition to also being a fine artist, Jess produces a podcast with pal, Fiona, called Art Horse, about stepping out of your comfort zone.…
ArtsyPeach
ArtsyPeach is a Palestinian-American artist named Noor who’s been doing her thing on Instagram since 2016. She paints exuberant nature-inspired works on unexpected surfaces like winter squash, broken porcelain, wine glasses, her own and her friends’ skin, ukuleles, pieces of wood, clock faces, an old vinyl record album, and our favorite, a vintage television set…
Potchimew
Potchimew (Ayanna Johnson Steptoe) is an Afro American comic artist and colorist. She’s been drawing a webcomic since 2019 that has over 87K subs on Webtoon Canvas called Vampire Girlfriends, about the modern lives of two vampire girlfriends. Her second webcomic series is Memories of Amisi. Having lost her memory, with no idea who she…