Showcasing DC Creators

I use images and manipulate them to make pop art.

As a graphic designer and artist, I like to share my work with others. I continue to explore the relationship between the visual communicator and the studio artist through my passion of seeing, creating, educating, and communicating the importance of creativity and design.

I utilize both digital and analog methods of mark making in my illustrative practice to create editorial, lifestyle, and narrative work typically centering female voices and experiences.

I paint, mostly in watercolor. I have recently joined the Capital Artist Collective and launched my own website where I post/sell original work and prints. I plan to continue to grow my portfolio and my shop!

I create with a semi-impressionist style with soft edges and a lighter application of oils than is standard. While most of my art is inspired from real settings or imagery, the end result is an intentionally painterly rendering.

I use digital and analog methods to create illustrations and patterns.

I am inspired by children’s art and often borrow their use of color, pattern, and movement. I tend to work with stylized flower shapes. I think our moods influence color and color can influence our moods as well!

I am a printmaker and multidisciplinary artist. I work in a variety of mediums, from screenprinting, intaglio, and relief printing to comics, artist books/zines, and paintings. My works play with organic forms and illustrative figures combined with layers of texture and color.

I'm a representational artist, working primarily from observation.

My work explores the nuances of everyday life and situations through traditional and digital mediums. With every piece I create, whether through illustration, comics or sketches, I aim to understand myself and the people around me more than when I began the piece.

Currently I'm working on a digital hand-lettering project in which I make honest and empowering phases for people on the creative journey. People who strive to achieve their scary big goals and dreams, but feel that they are alone in their struggles and self-doubts. I hope that people see a part of themselves in my words and art, and know that we share similar struggles as creative entrepreneurs and artists. We don't have to do this all alone. We can help each other little by little in whatever ways we are able to contribute, push past our limited beliefs, and thrive together.

My work is whimsical, lighthearted, inspirational, but can be edgy.

I use my life experience to create pieces that express something I've learned or something I want to say. I've always loved to draw. Being able to share that with other people who are interested in something I love doing is pretty amazing.

My work is very storytelling-oriented. It is inspired by cartography, gender, sensuality, transcendentalism. I make prints, murals and comics that are about spaces in the real world, but also about what it means to exist in a physical body and navigate physical spaces not built for you. I tend to oscillate between bouncy and broody, and will champion all that is handmade and hand-drawn.

I paint traditional tattoo flash designs in watercolor on wood.

Designer, illustrator, puckish rogue. I have many monikers. I like clean lines and strong elements. Words like sophisticated, elegant, heavenly may apply to my work not all the time but it's what I strive for. When I'm not creating the goods, I'm gazing into the distance "meta". My illustrative work is usually pop-oriented, where I remix old aesthetics and fuse them with a comic/anime feel. Design-wise I focus on identity creation and branding.

I've been an artist my whole life, and in my adulthood I realized that there wasn't much exposure of Filipino creatives in the DC area. I saw a lot of products made and sold by west coast artists and wanted to bring that representation and energy to the east coast. As a result, I started designing art prints that proudly represent my culture and selling at vendor events through DC.