All About Janna's Creativity
Welcome to the Neighborhood
When you buy a piece of my work, you aren't funding a corporate boardroom or a mass-production factory. You are directly supporting an independent creator who refused to be broken by the world and chose to create beauty instead. You are helping me keep creating, keep adapting, and keep sharing a bit of hard-won imagination with a world that desperately needs more light.
This website is the new home base for my creative future.
The New Frontier: Right here on my new shop and website, you’ll find all of my latest design releases, apparel, and fresh creative experiments going forward.
The Classics: If you're looking for my established catalog of 80 classic, fan-favorite designs, you can still find them going strong over on Amazon.
Thank you for wandering into my corner of the internet. Thank you for standing with an independent artist, and thank you for being part of a community built on grit, heart, and pure creative joy! If you want to learn more about me, keep reading.
More About Me....
The Art of Survival (and a Lot of Sparkle)
Some people choose a creative life because it sounds romantic. I chose it because it was my way out. But if you think a lifetime of survival has made me cynical, think again! I am a naturally bubbly soul, a lover of the whimsical, and someone who firmly believes that no matter how dark the storm gets, you’ve got to keep looking for the joy, the magic, and the fun.
I was a throwaway kid, living without the safety net of family that most people take for granted. Born in Southern California, raised in the UK until my late teens, and later scattered all across the United States, including a chapter surviving the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, my life has been a nomadic masterclass in resilience.
When I was 17, an art teacher cut a deal with me: if I promised not to disrupt her class, she’d leave me alone and let me use the school's supplies. I used that classroom to teach myself how to silkscreen. That raw, DIY hustle became my sheer survival. I then, once I was homeless, started airbrushing t-shirts and painting leather jackets on the streets just to make enough money to get by and help out the group of street kids I had taken up with for safety and survival.
I’m 54 now. I have survived an abusive childhood, a toxic marriage and divorce, natural disasters, and the constant displacement with no safety net of family of having to build a life entirely from scratch, on my own terms. Today, I navigate life as a disabled artist with limited use of my hands and arms.
But through every single storm, there has been one beautiful, loud constant: I never stopped designing, and I never let the world steal my joy.
From the Streets to the Screen
For nearly four decades, graphic design and illustration have been my anchor and my happiest escape. My hands might not move the way they used to when I was airbrushing on sidewalks, but the fire, the technical skill, and the sharp, playful creative eye I developed over a lifetime of independent hustle are stronger than ever.
Every single t-shirt design, fantasy coloring book, and piece of digital art you see here is a piece of that journey. It is completely original, fiercely independent, and packed with the resilient optimism of a solo artist who knows exactly what it means to rebuild from the ground up, and have fun doing it.
Once again, thank you for standing with an independent artist.Â