Kristin Perry

A flexible mixed media collage activity that helps children explore shape, texture, color, layering, composition, and visual storytelling.

TLDR Showing art online and showing art in a room full of people are completely different experiences. Online, someone can stare at a piece for five minutes without you knowing they exist. At a live art event, the artist may…

TLDR Why Full-Art Cards Are Less Forgiving Full-art MTG proxies can look cleaner and more dramatic than conventional framed cards, but they expose file-preparation mistakes quickly. A normal border can hide slight cutting movement. On a full-art card, weak bleed,…

Magic: The Gathering is a game of creativity. Some players express that creativity through deckbuilding. Others express it through card alters, cube design, fan art, or custom themed projects. But many creative ideas are hard to test if every card…

A Magic: The Gathering cube is already a custom format. Every card is chosen by the cube designer, which means the experience reflects that person’s taste, goals, favorite mechanics, and favorite styles of play. But a cube does not have…

Magic: The Gathering is already one of the most visually rich tabletop games ever made, but altered cards take that connection between play and art even further. For many Commander players, a deck is not just a stack of cards.…

Basic lands are easy to overlook. They do not usually win the game by themselves, they do not have long rules text, and they are often the first cards players add to a deck without thinking too much. But in…

A sketchbook is one of the best tools a young artist can have. It is a place to practice, test ideas, make mistakes, collect references, doodle during quiet moments, and slowly improve without the pressure of creating a perfect finished…