Valentine's Monsters: Owlsley Pencil/Make-up Pouch — Star Gazing

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.

Meet Owlsley!

· Funny

· Lily’s BFF

· Pretends to be a cat

· Trades other monsters random things for bottle caps