kristinized

I've been really lucky to have art encouraged by family and teachers all my life. For the last few years I've been gaga over artist trading cards, and it's relaxing to lose myself in creating something after working all day in the corporate world.

I'm 32 and live with my boyfriend and 2 cats (the only children I'll ever need!) When I'm not making ATCs or wasting time on the internet I like to take photographs of gravestones in old cemeteries and read.

Supernatural, The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, Angel, The X-Files, Jeopardy, Dexter, The Tudors, LOST, So You Think You Can Dance, Jensen Ackles, Conan O'Brien...

mysteries, horror, classics, graphic novels, cheesy hard case crimes. nearly anything to do with vampires or zombies. fairy tales and modern versions there of. Jim Butcher, Raymond Chandler, Ellen Datlow, Stephen King, Agatha Christie, Mary Janice Davidson (Undead series = my guilty pleasure!), Janet Evanovich (Stephanie Plum series), Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Kurt Vonegut, Dorothy L. Sayers, Thomas Hardy, David Sedaris...

anything by and everything of Tim Burton, Christian Bale, Johnny Depp, Helene Bonham Carter, Bruce Campbell, John Malkovich, Steve Buscemi, Mary Poppins, Clue, Footloose, Indiana Jones, Tremors, Star Wars, The Godfather, Wizard of Oz, Billy Wilder, Jack Nicholson, Heathers, Halloween, The 'Burbs, Back to the Future, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Shawshank Redemption, Monsters Inc, The Little Mermaid, Pirates of the Caribbean...

I'm all about ATCs right now - drawn, painted and mixed media. I've started to narrow down the themes I'm interested in collecting, although it's still a big list! Themes I especially like: the caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland, creepy carnival/sideshow, skulls and skeletons, whimsical cats, gnomes, mushrooms, Tim Burton characters, mermaids... I'd better stop there!