Missmonster.com is the portfolio website of Melita Curphy. Hi!

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. After moving back up to Chicago I worked as a graphic designer at Motorola. Office life was so not my cup of tea….

March 2008 was the start of full time freelancing and 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.

 

I can be contacted at missmonsterstore at gmail dot com. I’m not open to custom work at this time.

 

You can see much more of my work by checking out my flickr sets.

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