One of our Forest Fables artist, Kristina Collantes is one amazingly talented artist whom we’ve admired for a long time. So when she emailed us last fall, we jumped at the chance to work with her. We love her beautiful landscape and fantastical landscapes she created for us in the wallets and mousepad.

For our Illustrated Interview series, We asked her a several questions and asked her to illustrate the answers and we got some interesting answers. See if you can figure out for yourself.

Check out her work for Poketo here.
Find out more about Kristina here.

We love this illustrated interview with artist, Andrea Kang. It perfectly wraps up her cute style. If you don’t know, the original artwork of the Poketo wallet and mousepad are skilled, intricate cutouts from paper. Andrea’s art is part of The Forest Fables series, full of whimsy, nature, and mystery. Why are Andrea’s girls dancing in a circle together? What are they celebrating? How do they get along so well with wolves? All I know is that I want to be in their world.

Check out Andrea Kang’s wallet and the entire Forest Fables series here.
Click here to see Andrea’s Poketo mousepad.
More from Andrea Kang at AndreaKang.com.

Sometimes, we like to break it up a bit and introduce our artists in the form of as illustrated interviews, illustrated by the talented artists themselves!

First up in our Forest Fables series is Glaswegian artist, Lesley Barnes. When Lesley reached out to collaborate with Poketo, we couldn’t have been more thrilled!

Check out the Lesley’s Poketo wallet here. And, her mousepad for Poketo here.
More from Lesley Barnes here!

Meet Lesley!

We’re super stoked about our partnership with nonprofit art center Creative Growth up in Oakland and we wanted to share the work of another artist with you.

John Hiltunen is a master of collage. Before he found his medium, he dabbled in rug making, woodworking and even ceramics. Now living in Fremont, California, his collages surprise, shock and elicit a bit of laughter with their jarring juxtapositions. We asked him a few questions, he sent back some collages…

If animals were people, what would they look like?

Show us your favorite animal as a collage.

Thanks so much, John!
Check out Creative Growth wallets on here.
Learn more about Creative Growth Art Center here.