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Cope Aesthetic Customs
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I custom paint sneakers...
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About Cope Aesthetic Customs
About Cope Aesthetic Customs
Cope Aesthetic Customs started with two murals, a jean jacket, and a stranger who followed the art back to me. In 2018, a woman spotted my signature on a downtown Raleigh mural and asked if I could paint her friend — in a tropical theme — on the back of a denim jacket. That one request turned into another… and then another.
Graduation caps. Custom sneakers. Timberlands to match an RV mural I painted. What started as “one-offs” became a calling.
In August 2023, I trained in Chicago with one of the country’s top customizers. A few months later, I studied with another customizer — later featured on the Today Show — sharpening my process and elevating my standards.
And the name? Cope is my maiden name — and aesthetic is my filter.
Every painting, mural, or one-of-one custom piece begins with your idea… but it's told through my eye, my lens — the Cope Aesthetic.
As an Outlaw Muse and Sacred Channel, I don’t just make things pretty — I translate the emotional, the unseen, the too-big-for-words into bold, statement pieces. Everything I paint is a kind of alchemy: your essence, rendered visible.
Follow along or reach out — I’m always painting something bold.
You break rules to spark creative revolution. You're a vessel — translating unseen or emotional truths into bold, wearable expression. You channel deeper meaning, not just make things pretty.
Brand Archetype = outlaw muse as sacred channel
Cope Aesthetic Customs started with two murals, a jean jacket, and a stranger who followed the art back to me. In 2018, a woman spotted my signature on a downtown Raleigh mural and asked if I could paint her friend — in a tropical theme — on the back of a denim jacket. That one request turned into another… and then another.
Graduation caps. Custom sneakers. Timberlands to match an RV mural I painted. What started as “one-offs” became a calling.
In August 2023, I trained in Chicago with one of the country’s top customizers. A few months later, I studied with another customizer — later featured on the Today Show — sharpening my process and elevating my standards.
And the name? Cope is my maiden name — and aesthetic is my filter.
Every painting, mural, or one-of-one piece begins with your idea… but it's told through my eye, my lens — the Cope Aesthetic.
As an Outlaw Muse and Sacred Channel, I don’t just make things pretty — I translate the emotional, the unseen, the too-big-for-words into bold, statement pieces. Everything I paint is a kind of alchemy: your essence, rendered visible.
Follow along or reach out — I’m always painting something bold.
You break rules to spark creative revolution. You're a vessel — translating unseen or emotional truths into bold, wearable expression. You channel deeper meaning, not just make things pretty.
Brand Archetype = outlaw muse as sacred channel
I turn identity into art — your passions, your survival, your scars, your story.
Each piece becomes a ritual of self-expression you can wear into the world.
I’m not here to decorate you. I’m here to armor you. To announce your allegiance.
To mark your magic. To make you seen.
I’ve jumped out of planes, crossed 25 states in 87 days solo, and almost died dirt biking
— and yet nothing makes me feel more alive than creating a custom that hits someone
in the soul.
I turn identity into art — your passions, your survival, your scars, your story. Each piece becomes a ritual of self-expression you can wear into the world.
I’m not here to decorate you. I’m here to armor you.
To announce your allegiance. To mark your magic.
To make you seen.
I’ve jumped out of planes, crossed 25 states solo, and almost died dirt biking — and yet nothing makes me feel more alive than creating a custom that hits someone in the soul.
The Canvas is You
It’s not about me — it’s about what I channel for you.
It’s not about me — it’s about what I channel for you.
xx, ~buffy
You don’t need permission to be unforgettable.
Your passions deserve a spotlight,
not a back seat.
I create for the misfits, mystics,
and main characters.
Fandom is devotion. Fashion is expression.
I fuse both.
Customs aren't decoration.
They're declaration.
You don’t need permission to be unforgettable.
Your passions deserve a spotlight, not a back seat.
I create for the misfits, mystics, and main characters.
Fandom is devotion. Fashion is expression. I fuse both.
Customs aren't decoration. They're a declaration.
What I Believe
xx, ~buffy
You don’t need permission to be unforgettable.
Your passions deserve a spotlight,
not a back seat.
I create for the misfits, mystics,
and main characters.
Fandom is devotion. Fashion is expression.
I fuse both.
Customs aren't decoration.
They're declaration.
You don’t need permission to be unforgettable.
Your passions deserve a spotlight, not a back seat.
I create for the misfits, mystics, and main characters.
Fandom is devotion. Fashion is expression. I fuse both.
Customs aren't decoration. They're declaration.
What I Believe
Not just the work — the world behind it.
A glimpse into the moods, moments, and magic that shape every custom I create.
The Frequency: Moodboard of a Muse
who is Buffy?
You may be wondering:
That’s a long and complicated answer — but the short version?
I’m a social chameleon who can fit in with any crowd. I love pink (fuchsia, to be exact). But really… I’m a badass, motorcycle-riding adventurer forged by fire and wrapped in powerful femininity.
In 2014, I earned my BA in Communication Arts with a concentration in Visual Communications from Framingham State University, with minors in Art Studio and Information Technology. I also studied abroad at Griffith University’s Queensland College of Art in Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Mentored by elite artists from Cleats for a Cause and the Today Show feature circuit. Educated globally. Guided by instinct. Built for the bold.
About the Founder
Translation:
You lead by intuitive fire. You’re not here to “play nice” — you’re here to wake people up creatively, spiritually, and visually. You don’t ask for permission. You create what needs to exist.
I paint loud — creating what needs to exist — not what’s trending.
As an Untamed Oracle, I vibrate on high. Tapping into empathic intuition, I imbue my intentions into each custom piece. Those intentions carry the kind of magnetic energy that’s felt before it’s understood.
Founder Style Archetype = The Untamed Oracle
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But degrees didn’t make me an artist. That was innate. My imagination was a safe place I escaped to — from the nightmarish horrors of my youth, through my tumultuous teen years, into the traumas that followed me into my twenties, and through the toxicity of troubled relationships and bad decisions that imploded my life in my early thirties.
Degrees gave refinement and understanding to my raw creative ability — first explored in childhood and built on day by day, year by year, even when art lived only in stolen moments and side hobbies.
Then in 2016, the universe course-corrected my life after a serious injury and major surgery.
That was the moment art stopped being something I fit in — and became something I stood in.
So no, degrees didn’t make me an artist.
Complete with beautiful highs and tragic lows.
Dirt trails did (even the one that nearly killed me).
So did motorcycle riding, sky diving, white water rafting, hang gliding, zip lining, hot air ballooning, parasailing, dog sledding, Snowmobiling, skiing, snow shoeing, mountain hiking in all seasons, canoeing/kayaking, camping, riding my mountain bike on dirt trails or my push bike on paved & rail trails — and every road trip that turned grief into grit.
I’ve zigzagged this country and traveled the world. I’ve crossed 13 eastern states from Massachusetts to Florida by motorcycle — turning adversity into adventure and discovering what I was capable of when I thought I couldn’t go on.
I crossed 25 states in 87 days by car — a stick shift I had only just relearned to drive days before I began my circumnavigation of the U.S.
I survived it all.
And now I live to
I channel all of that lived experience — the scars, the sparks, the soul of it — into every custom I create.
Life Did.
tell it in color.
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My Becoming: From Scars to Statements
Origin Story
I come from shadow.
From places most people won’t talk about — and many wouldn’t survive.
I don't need to relive it. But I carry it — and I transmute it.
Painting became the ritual that helped me return to myself.
A way to reclaim story, shape, and self-expression.
That path led me to painting large-scale public art — murals for commercial spaces, private homes, and even parks and rec projects.
Now, I channel that same power into one-of-one customs — for people rewriting their own narrative, expressing their passions, or just daring to be seen.
My scars aren’t my aesthetic — but they’re my origin.
And everything I create is proof that beauty can spring from the ugliest origins and you can wear survival like art.
My Becoming: From Scars to Statements
Origin Story
I come from shadow. From places most people won’t talk about — and many wouldn’t survive.
I don't need to relive it. But I carry it — and I transmute it.
Painting became the ritual that helped me return to myself. A way to reclaim story, shape, and self-expression.
That path led me to painting large-scale public art — murals for commercial spaces, private homes, and even parks and rec projects.
Now, I channel that same power into one-of-one customs — for people rewriting their own narrative, expressing their passions, or just daring to be seen.
My scars aren’t my aesthetic — but they’re my origin.
And everything I create is proof that beauty can spring from the ugliest origins and you can wear survival like art.
