Valentine's Monsters: Cute... but psycho, Norman Pencil/Make-up Pouch — Be My Valentine

Meet Valentine's Monsters!

When Valentine was a toddler, I made her Burgess from a pattern in Closet Monsters by John Murphy.

This summer, at ten years old, she pulled the same book off the shelf and began creating her own monsters — first following the patterns, then working free-form, practicing her sewing while inventing new creatures.
Almost immediately the monsters jumped into her favorite medium: ink and paper.

These are early portraits of an imagination in motion.
Valentine is still developing their stories and turning them into a comic.

Meet Valentine’s Monsters.

Cute… but psycho, Norman!

· He’s a psychopath, no doubt

· Lives somewhere in the woods

· Likes to ask Taylor if they’re a Swiftie