Blog – Reine Kurth

Goats, Mexican street art, and supporting a more wholesome digital world – Letter from the studio, November 2025

Post author By Reine
Post date 2025-12-06

So I did not manage to send a letter from Mexico 😌. I thought I could just say hello, but on the other hand I had prepared material for a full-blown letter, while not really knowing how to handle it from my mobile phone. Also, jetlag, illnesses, and overwhelm from so many strange and new experiences (and no, in Mexico City – a.k.a. CDMX for ‘Ciudad De MeXico’ 😊️ – you can’t get far speaking English / no Spanish 😬️). So the letter did not happen…

Anyway, here I am now with some eye candy for you 😘️!

Tags diademuertos, freeinternet, freesoftware, goats, illustratorslife, letterfromthestudio, mexico, mural, mushrooms, newsletter, precolumbianart, process, squirrels, stickers, stickersheet, streetart, teotihuacan, truck

Creating a repeating pattern with a hand-carved stamp – Day 6 and final

Post author By Reine
Post date 2025-10-05

Actually I want to print the front papers too, in a different colour scheme, so there should be a follow-up at some point ;) But for now let me show you some process pictures of the actual printing!

Tags blockprinting, botanical, flowers, fluopink, pattern, process, sketchbook, stampprinting

Sketches, a tractor, and an inspirational illustrator – Letter from the studio, September 2025

Post author By Reine
Post date 2025-09-30

As I’m scrambling to prepare for the Frankfurt Book Fair next month – creating new pieces, promotional material, and a book pitch – all while continuing to work on my comic, I’m taking a moment to write this letter, a calm moment to reflect.

I hope that reading the letter is creating a calm moment for you too, a pause in your busy day :)

Tags buntehunte, goats, illustratorslife, juttabauer, letterfromthestudio, newsletter, plantspattern, sketchbook, stickers, stickersheet, tractor, tree

Creating a repeating pattern with a hand-carved stamp – Days 3-5

Post author By Reine
Post date 2025-09-27

I’ve made it to the test print! …but let’s first pick up where we left 😌️

Tags blockprinting, botanical, flowers, pattern, process, sketchbook, stampprinting, wip, workinprogress

Creating a repeating pattern with a hand-carved stamp – Day 2

Post author By Reine
Post date 2025-09-20
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So I’ve reworked the base hexagonal tile for my repeat pattern.

Tags blockprinting, botanical, flowers, pattern, process, sketchbook, stampprinting, wip, workinprogress

Creating a repeating pattern with a hand-carved stamp – Day 1

Post author By Reine
Post date 2025-09-18
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It’s been a moment since I last tried my hand at repeating patterns, or stamp carving. Today I’m diving back with an obviously much too ambitious project: carving a stamp for an hexagon-based pattern – also, small enough to repeat on the “end papers” of my A6-size sketchbook 😅️.

Tags blockprinting, botanical, flowers, pattern, process, sketchbook, stampprinting, wip, workinprogress

Thistle! Hares! A quirky church ceiling! And other wonders (plus, news from my comic project) – Letter from the studio, July 2025

Post author By Reine
Post date 2025-07-29

Sorry (not too sorry ;)), this will be a long one! At the time I would have been supposed to write the June letter I was in Swedish Lapland, paddling in a packraft, sleeping in a hammock, hiking in a pathless forest, or driving our camper van… It was a bit too much so I had to skip the letter – but shot all the more photos 😅.

Tags chicken, flowers, goats, hare, illustratorslife, letterfromthestudio, lostplace, mirabelles, newsletter, sheep, signs, sketchbook, sweden

Vintage computers, and a bee – Letter from the studio, May 2025

Post author By Reine
Post date 2025-06-02

This month (as opposed to the last) I found a lot to choose from, both art-wise and photo-wise, so here’s an eclectic mix – plus our artist of the month. Enjoy! :)

Tags childrenillustration, clouds, comic, computers, drawthisinyourstyle, dtiys, flowers, illustratorslife, krissydiggs, letterfromthestudio, newsletter, onlocationdrawing, rhododendron, sketchbook, sneakpeek