About Striped Cat Studio

Striped Cat Studio is a journal about making pictures, letters and things from paper, with a small shop of prints, cards and patches beside it. Its seven sections run from the first sketch and the first brush-pen alphabet to the framed print on the wall and the booth at a weekend fair.

Who runs it

June Albright is an illustrator who has drawn animals, pets and city streets for eleven years, in gouache and ink and now often in Procreate. She sells her work as prints, cards and repeat patterns, and a few of her animal designs are printed for the shop. She writes about drawing technique, building repeats, preparing files for print, and framing and hanging art.

Camille Duarte has taught brush lettering and modern calligraphy for eight years, in workshops at stationery shops and libraries and in her own online classes, and letters wedding stationery, signs and cards to order. She writes the lettering tutorials and drills, planner and journal setups, and card projects.

Miles Kerrigan has sold screen-printed posters and greeting cards at craft fairs and holiday markets for nine years, and runs a small print shop with an online store alongside the booth. He writes about where to sell, what to charge, fair applications, shipping and platform fees.

What we cover

• Illustration: drawing by hand and on a tablet, from pet portraits to travel sketches.
• Hand Lettering: brush pens, dip pens, chalk and the iPad.
• Stationery: planners, journals, pens and paper.
• Paper Crafts: cards, stickers, linocuts, patches and mail art.
• Pattern Design: repeats for fabric, wallpaper and print on demand.
• Art Business: selling online and at fairs, pricing and shipping.
• Wall Art: choosing, framing and hanging art at home.

More on each writer is on the authors page; questions and corrections go through the contact page.