Hello! My name is Karina and I’m a Calligrapher currently living in Oregon.

I’ve been doing Calligraphy since I was a teenager. I primarily work with Pilot Parallel Pens and Sharpie markers. It just depends on the project I am working on. I started working with sharpies as a teenager without access to traditional calligraphy tools. I imitated the graffiti I saw in Miami, my hometown. Eventually I developed my own graffiti lettering style. In 2020, I had paid off all of my student loan debt and my car. Now that I had paid off my past, I had wondered what the future might hold for me. I decided to finally pick up a traditional calligraphic tool and took my first course on calligraphy with the Portland Society for Calligraphy which I am still an active member of today. Since then, I’ve learned over 10 scripts but mostly focus on 2 traditional scripts (Uncials and Blackletter).

In my late teens and early 20s I was in the Army. At that time, I still focused on my graffiti style work. With my respect for the military, I create pro-military and service member quotes from time to time. I am a fulltime federal employee working in the Forest Service with a goal of transitioning to making custom pieces for families. I mix nature in with some of my projects to my love of nature. I enjoy doing ink and charcoal prints of plants with fine lettering.

I incorporate my Scottish heritage into some of my work. My favorite script is traditional Uncials from 6th century Book of Kells. My goal is to work on family trees based around Celtic Knots, the Tree of Life knot, and Uncial Script. I want to bring families together with custom pieces which focus on the people they care about the most.