Missmonster.com is the portfolio website of Melita Curphy. Hey.
I currently live in Chicago, though south Texas is my original home. My work varies from gouache and acrylic paintings, to cast plastic, plush, sculpey, leather and wood to the variety of materials used for my costumes, dolls and sculpture.
I attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago ’96-2000 after graduating from the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts in California. I taught illustration techniques for (almost) four semesters at a community college in Texas, leaving to work on the animated film A Scanner Darkly in Austin. Moving back to Chicago, I worked as a graphic designer at Motorola while doing freelance work on the side. Hey guess who’s totally not cut out for corporate office life?
March 2008 was the start of full time self employment and making that move was the best thing I ever did. Things have been going strong since thanks to many supportive, wonderful people who actually pay me to make monsters for them.
The majority of my time is spent running my online store out of my studio basement. I design all the items there and make most of them by hand. It’s a crazy way to make a living but it’s way better than a “real job” ;P
I can be contacted at missmonsterstore at gmail dot com. Due to my schedule I’m not open to custom work at this time.
You can see much more of my work by checking out my flickr sets.
or use the following links to keep up with my recent news and artwork:
https://twitter.com/#!/missmonstermel
http://www.facebook.com/missmonstermel
http://missmonster.deviantart.com/
My art has been shown or sold in the following fine establishments:
Oh no! Doom! Gallery- Chicago , IL
Revolution Tattoo- Chicago, IL
A-Okay Official Gallery- Chicago IL
Suite 100 Gallery- Seattle, WA
Observatory Room- Brooklyn, NY
Bear and Bird Gallery- Lauderhill, Florida
Continental Club- Austin TX
Monkey See, Monkey Do- Austin, TX
Parts and Labor- Austin, TX
Lift Gallery- Detroit, Michigan
San Diego Comic Con- San Diego , CA (Mezco custom Toy Show)
Make a Wish Foundation Charity Show ( 501st Custom Helmet show)
It can also be seen in the following published books:
Torso: Streetwear T Shirt Graphics Exposed
The Best of Instructables Volume 1
DragonWorld
Ta-da!
