Creating mixed-media landscapes in my Lansing, Michigan Art studio using found maps, book pages, illustrations, and hand painted art paper.

Rainbow Alien mixed-media landscapes created for Lansing Pride 2024 using found maps, book pages, illustrations, hand painted art paper, and other art media. More on the way!

Should I...
1) Turn the HP novels wasting away on my studio floor into art and donate sales to Trans Lifeline or
2) Turn them into mulch because even it's for a good cause, no one would buy them?

#jkrowlingisgarbage
#Scrapscapes
#harrypotter

Aliens in a rainbow of colors dance along these horizontal mixed-media paintings created for Lansing Pride 2024. More on the way!

Creating all of these little postures is just so much fun. I have the best job! 🏳️‍🌈

#Scrapscapes #alien #lansingpride #illustration
#mixedmediaart

Digital illustration of a one-eyed orange cat driving a retro-futuristic space rover.

Framed mixed-media artwork featuring a one-eyed orange cat flying a retro-futuristic space rover through a pink sky filled with moons and constellations.

The inspiration for this doodle can be found in my exhibition at Nelson Gallery starting Saturday!

#the100dayproject #Scrapscapes #art #spacecat #cat #Lansing #nelsongallery #spaceart

Detail of a mixed-media painting featuring the curvy backside of an alien being waving to approaching friends.

'Flow Seekers' is a 12x12 inch mixed-media painting in the Scrapscapes series by artist Steph Joy Hogan. There us a yellowish alien being in the foreground with its back to the viewer. The being is waving at a group of 4 other aliens holding hands and waving back as they approach from the right side of the canvas. Above them a purple rocket zips around a huge crater-pocked moon.

🍑💖 We've seen a lot of alien creatures pop up in the Scrapscapes series over the last year or so... but we have yet to see their backside... until now!

'Flow Seekers' willbe available this Saturday, March 1st at Nelson Gallery in downtown Lansing.

#art #scrapscapes #alien #lunarsurface #lansing

A hand holding postcard invitations for the Scrapscapes by Steph Joy Hogan exhibition at Nelson Gallery.

A hippo wearing a crown and a crocodile wearing a green beaded necklace greet each other in this detail shot of mixed-media artwork by Steph Joy Hogan

A bright orange illustrated rockets zips through a nebulous sky. A smaller rocket can be seen in the distance.

Purple and gray illustrated aliens wave in this detail shot of a mixed-media painting by Steph Joy Hogan.

This collection is all about hope and seeking connection.

I look forward to gathering my community for the reception to hold each other close, to escape a little, and to stoke our joyful fires.

Nelson Gallery, March 20, 5:30pm

#lovelansing #Scrapscapes #art #mixedmedia #space #sciencefiction

A collection of framed space-themed mixed-media paintings featuring rockets and paper airplanes zipping through colorful nebulous skies over cheerful landscapes created with scraps of found print materials like maps, book pages, and wrapping paper.

Trapped between feeling like my art is frivolous compared to the world crumbling and *hoping* that Joy really *is* resistance and it's my *duty* to keep going. 💔 More little utopias to come!

#Scrapscapes #space #mixedmedia #artist #Lansing

Mixed-media artwork featuring the images of a crocodile wearing a necklace laughing with a hippo in a crown.

Mixed-media artwork featuring green rockets blasting off past several planets into a red constellation-filled sky.

Artists, do you have a mantra or go-to pep talk for reminding yourself that your work and creativity have value... even in a chaotic, intense world? Let me hear it!

#artist #art #blueskyartists #creativity #mixedmedia #Scrapscapes

A colorful mixed-media work in progress sits on an artists workspace that is cluttered with various drawing tools.

Today I start the most creatively taxing stage in my artistic process... here's where we find out if "I can do it with a broken heart".

#art #artisticprocess #wip #Scrapscapes

Three small mixed-media paintings featuring a miniature husky named Koopa exploring outer space.

A mixed-media painting featuring a miniature husky named Koopa sitting pretty on a planet in space with his front paws crossed in front of him. The artwork is shown next two two reference photos of Koopa sitting in his favorite position.

Koopa in Space!

#dog #Scrapscapes

A retrofuturistic space pod rocket launches into a multi-colored nebulous cosmos filled with planets and moons in this mixed-media artwork by Steph Joy Hogan.

Mentally I'm here. Escapism is self-care, right?

#Astronomy #astrophysics #nebula #Scrapscapes