Recent Work

Animation by Block & Tackle.

2 Fables

This illustration is inspired by the book How to Be Both, by Ali Smith. Executed in a mysterious collage style, the image is of two eyes, bones and a sea shell in a dark, underground space.
Illustration for the book How to Be Both, by Ali Smith.
An illustration of a copper teapot, with two historical faces looking in from a dark background. There is an antique table sitting on a rug with a pink and copper zigzagged pattern. This is a stark and mysterious collage using found images as well as components built from paper.
A handmade collage with rabbit blowing a horn, making an announcement. Rabbit is surrounded by thorny plants.
An illustration inspired by the book Antkind, by Charlie Kaufman. This is executed in a collage style using found paper. There are three heads stacked Russian doll-style, with an ant poking out of one of them. A pair of mysterious eyes watches from the side.
Illustration for the book Antkind by Charlie Kaufman.
A portrait of Theodore Roosevelt, executed in a style that is both painted and collaged. In black and white, Roosevelt sits in an antique armchair that itself sits on a decorative, antique style rug.
Theodore Roosevelt
An illustration in a collage style of 2 California Condors, in mirror image to one another. The condors have almost human faces. They are perched on rocks looking out to the side, one of them looks out onto a full moon.
An illustration of a solar eclipse. This black and white, mysterious collage is made from scraps of ink painted paper, as well as marbled paper. It is an interpretation that captures the awe inspiring phenomenon of a full solar eclipse.

Virgo and Sagittarius; two from a complete set of astrological signs made from a single antiques catalog.

Animation by Block & Tackle.

An illustration of shards of pottery. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

An illustration inspired by the book Wayward, by Dana Spiotta. This image is executed in a paint and collage style, showing a woman on a ladder cleaning the woodwork in her home. A fireplace with green tile is at her right.
Illustration of the book Wayward, by Dana Spiotta.
An illustration inspired by the book Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders. This collage is a dark and image of a graveyard at night, with a bright white bloom of flowers, shells, and other glimpses of nature creating a flash in the dark sky.
Illustration of the book Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders.
A playing card depicting the King of Hearts. In this collage the silhouettes of two males face each other seeming to share a thought. Planets from inside one silhouette move to the other. This illustration is animated by the NY based design company, Block & Tackle.
animation by Block & Tackle
Students who choose to apply for an arts high school in New York City are asked to submit a portfolio, including the assigned “fantastical sandwich.” In solidarity, this is my version of a fantastical sandwich.
Patti Smith
Interlude, a black and grey piece of marbled paper, handmade by Stefanie Augustine.
Pianist and poet, Cecil Taylor
2 Element Collage. Visit my instagram for others in a small series.
Meg White
Nikolai Kondratieff
Spotted Lantern Fly

STEFANIE AUGUSTINE