Erika Moen

There is a very old little gentleman named Oscar who I've had the pleasure of catsitting several times while his owner/servant goes off on adventures. Over the winter holiday times, several friends and I got together for a Friendsmas that involved a homemade feast and a little gift exchange. I was r

Actually, maybe this isn't washi tape? I think "washi tape" specifically means those strips of decorative paper with really, really weak glue, so you can reposition it on your paper without damaging either surface. This stuff that I made, it's kinda a "Stick it down perfectly the first time, 'cos th

In December 2023 I decided to make a six panel comic explaining how to replace a busted zipper on your boot. From documenting my own boot repair, I had dozens of reference photos from which to draft up my comic outline... ...and a mere 9 months later- voila!- a fully collaged comic emerged! You can

Ho-hoooooooo! DONE! The boot zipper repair comic that I started about eight months ago is now, at last, completed! As before, I started with a digital mock-up of what I wanted the panel to look like: Then I cut out each individual shape from my paper stash. I realized the original title banner ("Zip

You know the drill: I'm making a comic out of collage to explain how to replace the busted zipper in your boots. Great news, I'm up to panel 5 out of 6! This is the part of the process where you secure your new zipper replacement into place, sewing through the pre-existing holes from the last zipper

Panel 4 of my Boot Repair Comic! To recap, here's the first three panels: Panel 1 : How to Replace Your Broken Boot Zippers. Panel 2: You will need: Thread, New Zipper, Binder clips, Seam ripper, Sewing needle. Panel 3: Rip out the original stitching. Now on to... positioning the zipper in place wit

What She Knows is an art practice by Lucy Bellwood that prompts you with a daily statement and I am answering in my native language of collage. My previous responses are collected here. The prompt today was: #9: When no one is around I... When no one is around I practice French. I pop in my earbuds

Remember that time I decided to make a simple six panel comic explaining how to replace your boot zipper and then I was like "Let's make this take one million times longer by illustrating it with collage'd paper and fabric"? There's no need to remember it like it's in the past because, baby, IT'S ST

Remember how I replaced the zipper on my boots? It was surprisingly easy and I wanted to show other people how to do it, too! The only way I know how to share information is to put it in comic form, so I made a mock-up with photos from my earlier documentation: And then I was like "Uhg, this is waaa

What She Knows is an art practice by Lucy Bellwood that prompts you with a daily statement and I am answering in my native language of collage. My previous responses are collected here. The prompt today was: #8: I Show Up for What I Love by... I show up for what I love by creating a space to hold my

What She Knows is an art practice by Lucy Bellwood that prompts you with a daily statement and I am answering in my native language of collage. My previous responses are collected here. The prompt today was: #7: The time of day I feel my best is… The time of day I feel my best is in the morning. Don

What She Knows is an art practice which prompts you with a daily statement and I am answering in my native language of collage. My previous responses are collected here. The prompt today was: I am nourished by... I am nourished by my relationships. The teacups of people are my various communities. T

What She Knows is an art practice which prompts you with a daily statement and I am answering in my native language of collage. My previous responses are collected here. The prompt today day was: I feel embodied when... Ok, so I didn’t really know what “embodied” meant. I mean, I sort-of knew? But n

What She Knows is an art practice which prompts you with a daily statement and I am answering in my native language of collage. My previous responses are collected here. The prompt this day was: I feel held when... I feel held when I am in my garden- especially when my hands are actually in the soil

What She Knows is a workshop which prompts you with a daily statement and I am answering in my native language of collage. The prompt on our second day was: I want to dress like... I like the way I dress. My two default outfit settings are a pretty good visual summary of me as a person, I think. One

My brilliant, beautiful, bootylicious friend Lucy Bellwood is running a kind of workshop (although she does not call it that) which centers on answering a question about your core beliefs and senses over the course of 100 days. It is called What She Knows. (Enrollment for this non-class is already c

This is my first day of feeling comparatively better since I got knocked off my ass by Covid (first time around for me! I only coughed up a little blood, hardly worth mentioning U_U) You remember that I am obsessed with the late 1980s fantasy princess doll, Lady LovelyLocks, right? I've got that who

UPDATE 2/3/23: Submissions CLOSED. --------------------------------------------------- I went to bed with this Patreon still needing three more sign-ups before I could start the big collaboration project I had proposed, and this morning I woke up to that goal number not only having been met but actu

Appliqué is the practice of sewing one smaller piece of fabric onto a larger piece of fabric to create a decoration, pattern, or image. It’s super fun!! I love it! I wanna appliqué everything! I wanna appliqué! With you! When? When this account reaches 450 patrons (we’re currently at 412 as of Jan 4

My previous post summarized the first six months of the art I made in 2022, and now I present to you the second half! July Ok, so I found a buncha sketches from July that I could post but this (PARTIAL) batch of my potato harvest is way more impressive so I'd rather show that off. LOOK WHAT I MADE A

What did I make in 2022? More than can fit in one post, that's for sure. January During one of my routine visits to Goodwill (secondhand shop), I found this giant photo canvas print of the Flat Iron Building in New York City and I thought "I bet I could fill that up with tiny naked people cut out of

The first thing I do with a new sketchbook is label the cover with my starting month and year, and then add a second blank label below it for the future concluding date. It's a habit I started during my 2005 semester in France, since I was blowing through my sketchbooks faster than I ever had before

Normally it takes me well over a year to fill up a sketchbook, both the pages with my notes and the covers with stickers. This book, however, has been different. I only started it three months ago and I’m down to the last… 11 pages?!?!? I stopped writing here so I could eyeball how many are left (“a