Michele Frusciano is an illustrator and designer living in New Jersey with her husband, son and daughter, and 2 trouble-making kitties. Her art features a combo of traditional mediums, like watercolor, acrylic, ink and colored pencil, fine-tuned in Photoshop and Procreate. 

Michele is thankful to have had the opportunity to hone her skills in design, product development and illustration through her 18 years spent working in-house at a prominent stationery company. In addition, she has been licensing her artwork for the last 12 years. She is now delighted to be working as a freelance artist, a dream she has always had, even long before earning her BFA in graphic design at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. 

Michele’s work is bursting with vibrant colors paired with intricate patterns and fine details. Her passion for, and long-term experience with, hand-drawing suuuuper detailed patterned foil masks to adorn her greeting cards has become a full-blown love affair (and borderline addiction at this point) that carries over into all of her art and provides the finishing details that set her work apart. Michele’s work is inspired by nature, female strength and beauty, and the ornate colorful pattern-work found historically in the artwork of various cultures around the world. 

In her spare time, Michele can be found enjoying good French press coffee with her better half, trying to get herself and her kiddos outside to play as often as possible no matter the weather, or getting a good heart pumping workout in at her local CrossFit. She is part book nerd, part meathead, a lover of nature and being outside, and a complete combo platter of introverted extrovert. (Yes…it’s a thing).