About me

Cara Peslak is an illustrator and hand lettering artist currently living in Northern New Jersey with her cat Bambino. She graduated with a Bachelors in Fine Arts degree with a focus in illustration from Maine College of Art in 2018. She is now pursing a Masters in Mental Health Counseling degree with a focus in art therapy. Cara enjoys painting detailed patterns, botanicals, and characters in gouache with a teeny tiny paintbrush. Her favorite subjects to illustrate are animals, snails, shells, pasta, vines, socks, houses, clouds, matroyska dolls, bugs, berries, umbrellas and hats. 

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Cara teaches part-time at Keep Creating Art Wellness Center, an art studio in Montclair, NJ. 

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