Coco26

I'm a jack of all trades and a master of nothing! I paint, draw, cut, color, collage, sculpt, and decorate.

I'm a scientist, a thinker, a dreamer, a pragmatist, a cynic, an optimist, and am finally confident enough to say.. I am an ARTIST!

I work in forensics and love all things related to science, the medical field, and vintage detectives and criminal investigation.

I love love LOVE to collage! I typically work on canvas or upcycle found substrates for larger pieces (anything up to 3 or 4 feet) but I'm also a big fan of art journaling, artist trading cards, & funky mail art. Cut it! Paste it! Paint it! That's my motto :)

I love to use a variety of techniques and am always looking for new ways to learn and experiment.

I love to explore the darker, macabre, morbid, and just creepier side of things and juxtapose them with items of beauty.

I incorporate science into almost all of my artwork through technical drawings, schematics, vintage biological illustrations, macro photography, and human/animal anatomical illustrations.

• Images of the human body contorted into any variety of beautiful ways (mostly black and white)

  • Avant garde art and fashion photography

  • Small handmade envelopes

  • Glazes or glazing mediums

  • I absolutely LOVE Basic Grey brand scrapbooking papers, especially the Obscure, Sublime, and Recess collections but these are super hard to find now. I'd love to do a private trade for these if anyone has these.

  • Liquid and spray inks

• Vintage papers/book pages

• Foreign language papers/book pages

• Stencils

  • Alcohol markers, paint pens, watercolor pencils/pens/markers (new or used, as long as they still have some life left in them)

  • Antique medical, dental, veterinary, or biology images, advertisements, or ephemera

  • RUB-ONS!! I absolutely love the Basic Grey Olio's but they must have stopped making these

  • Alice in wonderland-esque supplies (just not playing cards - I already have every size, shape, color, and theme imaginable)

  • Transparencies and transparent images

  • Embossing powders

  • For all you die-cutting machine addicts... I make art with layer upon layer upon layer! I would love handfuls of paper die-cuts in swirly shapes, silhouettes (people or plants), outlines of various geometric shapes, lacy papers, flowers, and again... lots of swirly shapes! :) I use them for background texture. Paper doilies are so thin though that they're practically useless for my needs.

The types of stickers I like and use the most are ones that I can easily incorporate into collages or are just plain funky and cool :)

Design elements

Stickers on clear backing

Swirls, whorls, abstract shapes

Anything you might expect in a Tim Burton movie (the odd and unusual)

Vintage stickers from the 80's and early 90's!!! I love cartoons from this era

Pretty much anything except preschool age kiddie stickers or superhero stickers.

Scrapbooking phrase/word/title stickers

Brads, eyelets, or ribbons

Letter stickers (I have a huge tupperware box of them!)

Religious themed items.

Cutesy, country kitsch - little girls with bonnets/roosters/buckets of flowers/geese - you know what I mean

Candy wrappers/food wrappers

I don't use buttons. I don't like buttons. Please don't send buttons

Used postage

I really don't care for tea or hot cocoa. But I'd never say no to real chocolate!