Julia Staite

Name: Julia Staite
Website/shop: www.juliastaite.com
Location: London, UK

1. If I wasn’t an artist I would be a florist!

2. My worst habit is starting projects and not finishing them
before moving onto the next one.

3. I am in love with knitting!

4. Who/what inspires you?
Lots of things – other illustrators, reading creative blogs, childrens books…

5. What is your biggest accomplishment to date?
Teaching myself to knit and crochet.

6. What is your biggest fear?
Carp. They have got really scary mouths…

7. If you could have superpowers, what would it be?
I would like to be able to teleport myself home when I really cant be bothered to get on the bus or tube. Dont think I would be able so save the word or anything with that
though…

Loaded Hips Press

Name: Shannon Buck
Website/shop: www.loadedhipspress.com
Location: Portland Oregon

1. If I wasn’t an artist I would be a mad scientist.

2. My worst habit is cracking my knuckles. And starting more
projects than I can finish.

3. I am in love with opaque white.

4. Who/what inspires you?
Postal cancellation stamps, flamenco dancers, old advertising
illustrations, 19th century paintings, rich colors, the Great Northwest, faded signs, imperfections, unrealistic figures.

5. What is your biggest accomplishment to date?
Still doing what I love to do.

6. What is your biggest fear?
Nothing good ever comes from fear!

7. If you could have superpowers, what would it be?
The Electric Dance Touch. Anyone that I touch would get down and get funky. I’d
start with the conservatives.

craftyFOLK

Name: Sarah Golden
Website/shop: www.craftyFOLK.org ; www.craftyFOLK.etsy.com
Location: Portland, Oregon USA

1. If I wasn’t an artist I would be a music publicist. That’s what I
was before I quit to pursue the creative side 100%.
The only things I miss is the regular pay check, getting all those
records months before they hit the stores and being on the guest
list.

2. My worst habit is procrastination.

3. I am in love with that perfect shade of light blue, childlike design and coffee.

4. Who/what inspires you?
Color, the weather, my husband and my mood mostly. A clean house and the open day ahead has to be one of the most inspiring things for me.

5. What is your biggest accomplishment to date?
The release of my first album, I’m in a band called The Battle of Land and Sea. I sing and play guitar.
It took me years to get an album out there, but I’m grateful that the earlier stuff never made it into the world, this is a record I will always stand behind. You can hear us here – www.myspace.com/battleoflandandsea

6. What is your biggest fear?
Getting in a terrible car accident. I have dreams and realistic flashes of it when driving. I’m a good driver, it’s the other people I fear, please don’t use your cell phone when driving folks!

7. If you could have superpowers, what would it be?
To be able to snap my fingers and be in another place and to take someone with me. I’d want there to be restrictions
though so I wouldn’t take it for granted. This would be good for the
environment and get rid of that fear of car accidents I suppose.

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