Northern Irish illustrator Claire Miskimmin's work mashes up the stuff of nightmares with something you'd quite like to pet on your lap. Her gothic beasts wouldn't look out of place in Tim Burton's back garden, foraging for grubs for dinner.

Claire's work is available to take home at http://blooddraw.bigcartel.com and at her blog www.blooddraw.tumblr.com the bizarre menagerie is added to often.

Locally, you can view, buy, or have tattooed onto you these beasties at Skullduggery Tattoo, Belfast, N.Ireland. I'm very tempted to adopt one onto my skin myself in the coming year.

She also plays in the band Girls Names http://girlsnames-deadtome.tumblr.com/ check them out.