This is a graphics heavy site. Please allow load time if your internet is not speedy as I would like my images displayed as best as possible - this is my online portfolio. I am Kathleen Joyce Figueroa or KAT JOY. I am a fine art artist and digital designer/artist, photographer, video maker/editor, content manager with web design abilities, and more. My graphic design career began as I needed to mock up the signs and murals, that I would paint, for nearly eight years.
Way before high school I was into photography, video editing, and drawing. I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing and Painting, from CSU Long Beach. My strong fine arts foundation and now 10+ year passion for the graphics, digital video arts and web technology, all of which I’ve received formal training, was a seamless progression. Several years of study and professional work in the fine and digital arts has given me unique abilities to take on a wide variety of projects with excitement, creativity, confidence, and solid skills.
Today, while I continue to gain experience in ever-changing best practices of digital media, I remain open for engaging opportunities with limitless possibilities.
Examples of my work are followed, displaying a range of styles and for different types of industries and projects.
Images photographed and prepared in Photoshop, then animated in Animate CC by me (KAT JOY). Includes a rollover sound on. Rollover, sound off.
Wm. Warmboe site is no longer active. See W. Warmboe Etsy site for Wm. Warmboe and Co. items for sale
Banner for Holiday Sale for Wm. Warmboe's Etsy store. Done in Photoshop
Spec-Tek Wheel Flyer Graphic for Instagram Rucci Forged, Montebello, CA.
Facebook ads.
Facebook ads.
DESIGN / HTML EMAIL
HTML Email smaple.
HTML Email smaple.
DESIGN / GRAPHICS for PRINTS + other GRAPHIC WORK
Image manipulation for marketing poster and social media.
Mock-up for painting on large (30" height) metal letter shapes.
Ideas for Key Art, Movie Posters.
Made for 4 color process print for t-shirts of a photo of the original Behan's An Irish Pub sign.
Image manipulation and text placement for marketing poster.
Original concept to creation for marketing postcard.
Image manipulation (each flower, fruit, and background were single seperate images needing trimming and cleaned and then arranged) and text placement for marketing poster.
Posters (2015 and 2016) for Bill Warmboe's space at Stuff, 150 Valencia Street San Francisco CA 94103, USA.
Poster for World AIDS Days awareness.
More posters for World AIDS Days awareness.
Book cover started with drawings then finished up in Photoshop.
DESIGN / PACKAGE DESIGN
Package design mock-up for CBD beverage.
Package design mock-up for pet care product.
Package design mock-up for CBD Chocolate.
Product mock up.
Label layout.
Package layout following SpaRx style guide.
Logo, package design.
Package designs for boxed lighting.
Photo-image manipulation for marketing postcard.
DESIGN / BRAND and LOGOS
Motion graphic to show finishing touches of logo design and branding development.
Logo for Vintage Jewelry Today Twentieth Century etsy site.
Various logos and symbols.
DESIGN / ILLUSTRATIONS
Progression of the synovial fliud and cartilage deteriating within three to five years and then the ball of the femur ultimately crushing unknowingly by the person carefully walking with a cane during her normal gardening routine. Caused by osteoarthritis.
A request by the hiring team for a graphic design position I applied for - asked for me to draw a pirate fighting with an octupus.
Lavender line art drawings for product labels. Product labels with selected illustrations.
Sagital view drawing of Periostomy procedure.
Forehead with nerve selection.
Sample: Accurate prep to scale drawings for trompe l’oeil lettering painting.
DESIGN / "FINE ART"
Hand Painted signs. Paintings. Drawing.
Metal letters approx. 30 inch in height painted over with snow ski resort names.
8' x 8' sign ad painting on side off wall.
Hand painting statement to acknowledge the land that the home resides on was once of the Gabreilino-Tongva people stolen by European colonizers.
Trompe loiel painting lettering at San Martin Catholic Hospital in Las Vegas for Evans and Brown Co. Me and Christine Bosworth. About 8' across.
Wedding ceremony painting. Acrylic on canvas, 4'x 3'.
My reproduction painting of Tamara De Lempicka's Spring 1928. Acrylic on canvas, 7'x9'.
Trompe loiel lettering painting at San Martin Catholic Hospital in Las Vegas for Evans and Brown Co. Me and Christine Bosworth. About 8.5' across.
Custom sign made for over elevator. It is in Greek for something like, "Only those knowledgeable in 'something' may enter".
Large mural of Oakville Grocery on wall in Oakville Grocery Market, Cupertino, CA in 2004.
Trompe loiel lettering as book spines at Easton Library in Burlingame, CA. Done for Evans and Brown Co.