✷ Casey Q Doe ✷
Chicago tattooer, printmaker, and puppeteer.
✷ Casey Q Doe ✷
Chicago tattooer, printmaker, and puppeteer.
Hi! Welcome to puppet world ;) Find all my cool puppet things here!
Last updated: 7/7/26
I will try to keep it up to date here as best I can, but it is possible that for events occurring in the future, especially friends events that I may be in but not organizing, my instagram is still better. For process posts and smaller more granular puppetry updates, check out instagram or the Blog page of this website!
Upcoming Puppet Events:
--> I will be at Bread and Puppet Theater through 7/28/26.
--> I will be performing in Rough House's "House of the Exquisite Corpse" this October! Stay tuned for more details :)
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Open Season
Blood & Miracles
Fishin'
Planet Earth
Rat Dance Macabre
Masks for the Modern Age
Debuting at Rough House Theater's May 12th 2025 Nasty Brutish and Short Puppet Cabaret, and recently remounted at Shoestring Puppets Fantastical Freaks puppet slam with live foley by Nick Sekits, Fishin' features a standoff between doppelgangers... one girl's peaceful afternoon on the river is interrupted by a tantalizing treat dangling down from above! Puppet design, writing and direction by me, puppeteering by myself, Bree Perry, Tori Londrigan, and Josie Klaus. Sound design and performance by Eli (@elmandvine). Photos above taken by Greg Inda, and you can find the recording here on youtube.
Characterized by variable-weight linework, naturalistic or textured shading, and often more color mixing.
Color work can exist within other style categories, but I want to specifically highlight some super bright super fun color work here because it's a style I'd love to do more work in. I enjoy bold flat colors as well as more painterly styles, and am developing my use of color linework as well.
Of the styles I work in I draw the least flash for this style, though I am working on making more. The reason for that is that these are often bigger pieces, aiming to connect and enhance existing work or highlight the body's natural shapes.
For me this style also means working mainly with a mag shading needle, which creates slightly softer edges to the piece than a standard lining needle and allows for a huge variety of cool textures and gradients. This lineless method helps me to work fairly quickly and keep these large pieces financially accessible.
Here are some photos of healed tattoos I've done, and I'm always on the hunt for more! If you've been tattooed by me in the past I hugely appreciate a good quality photo of the healed result, preferably taken in natural light.
If you run into complications healing for any reason I offer free touch up work no questions asked to anyone who has been tattooed by me, any amount of time after the original work was completed. It's important to have my best work on display walking around out there!
