The shop’s closing this week on Saturday, May 27th, 2023 at 11 PM ET, and this is your last chance to grab any of my classic pieces of fat and disabled people before they leave the shop for good. Let’s take a look at five retiring Classics before we bid them adieu!

Winter Flower: Viola
Made With
- Watercolor Paper
- Watercolor Paints
- Faber-Castell PITT Artist Pen, size S
- Pigma Micron Pen, size 005
About the Piece
With the Winter Flower series, I wanted to make a series about fat people in winter, playing around with the idea that winter and fat, disabled bodies are often regarded as dull or undesirable. I looked up some flowers that are known to bloom in winter around the world and paired them with three fat, disabled characters, emphasizing their scars and rolls and cellulite. Their smiles are shown in defiance of the viewer, in the knowledge that they are beautiful as they are.
For Viola, I chose to include a spinal fusion scar.
Viola is my favorite of the three pieces for its composition and its color palette; something about the combination of purple and yellow makes my heart soar. It’s so vibrant and lively!
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Cozy Witch
Made With
- Canson XL Mixed Media Paper
- Faber-Castell PITT Artist Pens, sizes S and XS
About the Piece
I made Cozy Witch in 2018, which was a time where I was very into drawing fat and disabled witches. I love the association with both nature and magic, something that I think fat, disabled people are well representative of. We are resilient people through necessity, and while we struggle often, we also find ways to celebrate and appreciate our bodies, our lives, and our experiences. That’s kind of what I wanted to capture here, along with normalizing representations of us in perfectly normal (or magical in this case) situations, something I still strive to do today.
Cozy Witch was the first piece I ever entered into a competition at the Queens County Farm’s Fair in 2018, and it won first place! I got a huge boost in self-confidence that day, especially considering how many other pieces were there that I thought I would win because of how beautiful they were.
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Crocus Mother
Made With
- Watercolor Paper
- Faber-Castell PITT Artist Pen, sizes S and XS
- Watercolor Paint
About the Piece
Crocus Mother is another one of my published pieces; it appeared in APÉRO in the Nature issue of September 2019.
For this piece, I wanted to really emphasize the idea of fat bodies as generous and nourishing, to associate them with the idea of Mother Nature herself. I chose to utilize the folds of the skin as representative of soil, giving birth to crocus flowers that bloom across the person’s body.
For Crocus Mother, I chose to include a person with polydactyly and to again use that purple and yellow combination that I so love.
View Crocus Mother in the shop

Rolling Hills
Made With
- Canson XL Mixed Media Paper
- Faber-Castell PITT Artist Pens, sizes S and XS
- Faber-Castell PITT Artist Pens, brush nibs in gray
About the Piece
Rolling Hills was one of my earlier pieces attempting to include more environments and fantasy settings. I chose the title as a play on both the hills in the scene and on the person’s rolls in the piece.
My goal here was to emulate the sensation of getting lost in the world of a book when reading.
I also wanted to explore working with values and new materials like the brush pens as I was ready to begin working beyond my regular line art. This piece was well received at the time, which pleasantly surprised me!
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Winter Flower: Hellebore
Made With
- Watercolor Paper
- Watercolor Paints
- Faber-Castell PITT Artist Pen, size S
- Pigma Micron Pen, size 005
About the Piece
As with Viola, Hellebore is all about challenging the idea of fatness and disability are undesirable. I explored a pink and green color palette here with the watercolors, leaning even more into the fantasy element by painting the nipples in shades of green.
For Hellebore, I chose to include a heart surgery scar.
Hellebores are one of my favorite flowers. With their name, I wanted to invoke the idea of a person not backing down, so I chose a pose directly facing the viewer in a comfortable position.
View Hellebore in the shop
Thanks for going on a short trip through memory lane with me! If you’d like to bring any of these pieces home with you, be sure to head on over to the shop before 11 PM ET on Saturday, May 27th.
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If you enjoyed this look at some of the stories behind these pieces, I recommend checking out my series Behind the Design which goes in depth into the process of a featured piece. And as always, you can find me on Instagram, Twitter, and Hive!
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