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Samantha Mash
@samanthamash.bsky.social
freelance illustrator✎౨ৎ
of jewish descent
oregon/california
samanthamashillustration@gmail.com
www.samanthamash.com
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Having lived in VERY run down apartments up until five years ago when I moved into a much newer building, it still shocks me when something breaks down in this place and a person shows up within a day or two and brings in a new part and fixes it at no additional cost. This was not fathomable before
November 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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I finished labeling my misprints so they can be sold at all my markets this season

But if you can’t get to any, Inprnt is offering free shipping on perfect prints with orders over 30 USD worldwide right now! That’s a great deal and it ends tomorrow!

www.inprnt.com/gallery/samanthamash
November 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Went to the post office to buy stamps and made a joke about how empty it was since we’re so close to the holidays, and the person working the counter said “yeah no one is shipping stuff because no one has money right now”

Dark, but very true
November 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I finished labeling my misprints so they can be sold at all my markets this season

But if you can’t get to any, Inprnt is offering free shipping on perfect prints with orders over 30 USD worldwide right now! That’s a great deal and it ends tomorrow!

www.inprnt.com/gallery/samanthamash
November 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
When you go to buy from an individual creator this season please remember the price at checkout (in person or online) is not what they will see reflected in their account

Fees, immediate taxes, and future taxes cut what they would make often in half

We price for that, so please be understanding!
November 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Bringing back the peace dove I drew for my winter markets🕊️
November 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Crawling out of my early seasonal depression because I remembered latkes exist and can be made
November 12, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Another new bit of client work, this time for Bicycling Magazine with Senior Designer Eleni Arpino (Dimou). The article this illustration was for is “I’m A Personal Trainer. Here’s Why I Don’t Tell My Clients To Lose Weight” by Natascha Grief
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Find your senators at reps.fyi or call 202-224-3121
November 9, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Oh no the people at the coffee shop complaining about how their adult kids won't use ChatGPT to make their life’s “easier”. I fear this is more common than I’d like to admit

The amount of people in my life desperately trying to get me to use AI to make my art is weirdly high so I guess I knew this
November 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Whenever language around what people deserve and what they don't deserve in the US comes around I am reminded at how much this is a game to people, how they can't fathom real lives

Not just politicians, but literally our neighbors. The cruelty people will put onto others without a second thought
November 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
A pug I don’t know came up to me, sat on my feet, and just stared up into my eyes. His owner came to find him and said he doesn’t do this normally, but how do I tell them not to apologize cause a dog just deciding it randomly likes me a lot is probably enough dopamine to get me through another month
November 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I made the hard choice to pause my Patreon at least until the new year. I posted there, but just in case anyone who is a patron didn't see it yet

I'm exhausted. My body has developed muscle twitches again which means I'm at my breaking point. So I will focus on tabling at least until the new year
November 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Last year on election night I took a friend to the ER at midnight. I had expected the election results, but it still was bad especially as the other folks in this waiting room were giddy about it

Tonight is a small but significant push back, I celebrate with veggie tacos and no emergency rooms
November 5, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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US friends, please go vote today in local elections (I voted early by mail already). Fewer people turnout in smaller elections so your engagement really matters.
November 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Lots of adoration for the person I saw just now riding a Lime scooter while yelling out Lady Gaga’s Abracadabra like it was a very serious Shakespearean sonnet

May we all live life like this
November 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Had the chance to illustrate for Quanta again, and got to draw one of my favorite animals: sharks! This is for “Shark Data Suggests Animals Scale Like Geometric Objects” by Joanna Thompson. It was really fun to focus on all sorts of species, from the large Whale Shark to the small Spiny Dogfish
November 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Never underestimate the awkward exchange of a "you should make XYZ! I'd buy it!" and then showing the very thing existing as a buyable item and the other person disappearing
November 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
When people hear that I'm returning to part time work they often ask "are things not going well with your art?"

The problem really is things are going well, but the world is so unstable that I long for some consistency and income that I don't have to pay quarterly taxes on
November 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Thank you everyone for enjoying the short, but sweet Monster Mashtober run this year. Life got in the way, and I had to return to current work and prepping for an upcoming return to part time work. I hope I can draw more monsters next year

Happy Halloween everyone!
October 31, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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I had the absolute honor of getting to make a piece for the
@gallerynucleus.bsky.social Over the Garden Wall 10th Anniversary Tribute Show

I believe this piece is being made into a print with the gallery so keep your eyes peeled, give them a follow! The opening reception will be on Nov 2nd🎃
October 14, 2024 at 3:42 PM
While I was only able to draw two more Monster Mashtobers, they are both now up at my Etsy as stickers and mini prints (just showing off the Mothman since I forgot to show him off in the last sale post)! The Werewolf print is almost sold out already so jump on it!

samanthamash.etsy.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Emotionally I'm not sure I can explain to one more human what a harpy is and that I didn't invent it, nor is it fanart of anything contemporary, when I am tabling
October 29, 2025 at 12:33 AM
The Montreal Cognitive Assessment is what led to my grandmother’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis when I was a kid. We couldn’t afford in home treatment nor a nursing home so she lived with her illness and died in the room next to mine. Everything about this represents so many frustrations I have with so much
October 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM