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Kate Wong

@katewongillo.bsky.social

illustrator / childless cat lady Katewongonline.com Katewongillo.substack.com

Kate Wong @katewongillo.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Real Americans stand against dictators. Read about this week's (Ukrainian) good luck charm, the motanka doll on Substack, and tell your reps to demand US support for Ukraine.

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Kate Wong @katewongillo.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Weekly good luck charm: swallows (one of my favorite birds!) Read more about them on my Substack.

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Kate Wong @katewongillo.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Head's up, US Mint, I have some design suggestions for when you reboot the penny

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Kate Wong @katewongillo.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I started a substack newsletter, go subscribe and get art delivered right to your inbox! It will feature occasional round ups of my illustration work and process, and serve as the home to the catalog of good luck charms I'm slowly building.

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Kate Wong @katewongillo.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Happy almost Valentine's Day! I hope everyone has the day they voted for, I'll just be here painting flowers and screaming inside to deal with it!

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Kate Wong @katewongillo.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Fingers perpetually crossed for a good week! I'm introducing a weekly series of good luck paintings, the illustrations will be posted here, but details about the charms and symbols will live on my new Substack, as a sort of catalog of good fortune. You can follow and subscribe (for free!)

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Kate Wong @katewongillo.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Any guessed on the content of this Valentine?

A hand holds a folded Victorian puzzle purse between thumb and forefinger. It is decorated with four pink hearts, and held over a palette smeared with gouache paint.

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Kate Wong @katewongillo.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Friday treat: the almond cookies you get with the check at some Chinese restaurants

A gouache painting of a round almond cookie in a clear plastic wrapper on a pink background

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Kate Wong @katewongillo.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Good luck, it's Monday! This week's charm is the first star of the night. You might be familiar with it from the nursery rhyme, or if you live in someplace less cloudy than me, the sky.

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Kate Wong @katewongillo.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Sunday afternoon project: weekend treats. I want to make a habit of regularly painting "little treats" instead of actually having one (since many treat ingredients give me headaches). This is a Hong Kong egg tart; if you know where to get a good one in PDX, please share!

A gouache painting of a Hong Kong egg tartbsitting in the center of a blue and white floral plate

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Kate Wong @katewongillo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Happy (lunar) new year! Here's my annual zodiac themed illustration for the year of the snake!

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Kate Wong @katewongillo.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

A good luck charm for Monday, the last one in January! Who's ready for a fresh new month of horrors?

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Kate Wong @katewongillo.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Really excited to share that my houses of the zodiac art is available at Anthropologie! I painted these ages ago, and they remain one of my favorite projects, but haven't been published widely until now. #blueskyillustrators

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Kate Wong @katewongillo.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Inspired by an excerpt from @austinkleon.bsky.social Keep Going about the Woolfs, the prelude to WWII, and planting a garden that will outlast the tyrants. Also, childless cat ladies forever.

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