This is the story of Carla Miller Art, our projects and approach.

Carla Ventresca animal lover screen printing

There's a reason I go through the long, messy process of screen printing my art. Screen printing is amazing! And it's old - from a thousand years ago, when it...

You know that feeling when you dive into the cold water on a hot summer day ...

Before I start any new project, I think about the emotion of the moment. What am I feeling? What do I want the viewer to feel? Here I talk about the...

Big Cats VS Domestic Cats - How to Draw the Differences

As I was working on a new project drawing big cats (cougars, lions, etc.) I was really curious to understand the differences in features between these guys and their small cousins, like my...

~This is part 3 in a series. Click here for part 1 and part 2. So far what we knew about our main character, Claire, was that she was a single 20-something, unsure of what she wanted to do with her life, and really clueless about adulthood. This might make for a few funny strips, but we still didn't feel Claire had the depth of that of a character like Charlie Brown or Calvin to carry the strip over the long term. We looked everywhere for inspiration. Books, Plays, Movies. Then Henry recalled...

Carla shows how to draw a French Bulldog

Before I start any new illustration project, I always do realistic studies beforehand so that I know what I'm drawing. Once I do that, I can get looser and do a...

Assignment: Horse Calendar, Part 2

~This is part 2 in a series. Click here to go to part 1.~ One of my favorite cartoons to work on for the calendar was called “Horse Show or Bust”. The...

Getting our Comic Strip Syndicated, Part 2

~This is part 2 in a series. Part 1 begins here It was Henry's idea that I try doing a comic strip. “Really?" It hadn't even occurred to me. Comic...

Pretending I'm high-tech!

Hope you guys find this interesting! Any questions, go ahead and put them in comments. --- Transcript: So the other day, I sat down to draw, and everything was coming out really weird. I looked closely at my pen nib, and it looked like it got stepped on. So I thought oh my gosh, I need to fix this right away, so I went online and B&H Photo had nibs, so then I thought oh, I have another problem, I don't have the tool to take it out. So Henry...

Halloween 2018

I wanted to share a Halloween "On a Claire Day" comic we did. Writing a comic that's funny is hard enough, but for this we set an even harder goal: to create a comic that was actually scary. Who knows if we succeeded, but in any case, what we ended up with has always been one of my favorites. Hope you like... Happy Halloween!!!

Assignment: Horse Calendar

~This is part 1 in a series. For part 2, click here About a year ago I got contacted out of the blue to do a calendar for a horse association. Sure! I said, not really knowing what I was getting myself into. I imagined drawing lots of cute horsies “Have you estimated how long this is going to take you?” Even Henry had reservations. He knew I'd often jumped into projects without getting all the specifics. “Um, a couple of hours per cartoon I think.” (My math turned...

Getting our comic strip syndicated, Part 1

~This is part 1 in a series. Part 2 starts here Sometimes I think back to when my husband, Henry, and I were doing our syndicated comic strip, between 2005 -...

Alcatraz Island Night Tour Short-Sleeve Men's and Women's T-Shirt

Black Kitty Love on soft cotton t-shirt

Black Panther Embroidered Polo Shirt

Black Panther On Pocket Bella Short-Sleeve Men's and Women's T-Shirt