Selfie of Aliya with her cat, Jeremy. Aliya is wearing a pink and red dress and a pink cap. She and Jeremy are sitting on a wicker couch and her arm is around him. He is a Balinese cat (color point with light body and a dark face, ears, tail, and paws). They both look calm.

Another selfie of Aliya with her cat, Jeremy. This time, she is smiling and he is yawning and his yawn shows his fangs and makes him look ferocious.

The baby and the beast

#balinesecat #balinese #colorpointcat #colorpoint #agirlandhercat

Idk why there’s not an option to post both a still image and a video in the same set, but here’s a time lapse of my sketch from today.

#nokingsday #nokings #procreate #digitalart #digitaldrawing #drawing #illustration #illustrator #makeart #speakup #createdaily #drawdaily

Illustration by Aliya showing a crow atop a gold, bejeweled crown. The crow has a red jewel in its mouth that it took from the crown. The jewel appears still connected to the crown by something that looks like tendons. There is a split orange circle in the background and behind that is all black. The subjects are lined in red and the crow has red eyes.

A bit different from my usual work, but obviously had to sketch something up today.
Love you guys. Stay together, stay safe.

#nokings #nokingsday #illustration #illustrator #makeart #createdaily #drawing #drawdaily #speakup

A sketch of a bust of Black man in colored pencil on a piece of paper that has been gouache- and ink-washed. The sketch is in red, pink, orange, and yellow hues. There are stars around the man. He is looking to his left (the viewer’s right). He has a beard with a connecting mustache and he has fairly short locs pulled up into a ponytail.

Another sketch. Colored pencil on gouache- and ink-washed paper.

#sketch #drawing #portrait #portraitsketch #coloredpencil #prismacolor #womenwhodraw #drawdaily #sketchdaily #makeart #atlantaartist #artist #illustrator

A small piece of paper with deckled edges on a cardboard background. The paper is blue toned but has a fluorescent pink ink wash on it. On top of the wash is a sketch of a woman looking to her right (left for the viewer). Out of her eye is a triangle of increasing darkness with a couple of stars in it. In her chest is an open doors with the same darkness/space and stars are flowing out of it and around her.

Pretty little sketch the other night to warm up

#sketch #coloredpencil #inkwash #drawing #womenwhodraw #feminineart #celestialart #stars #sketchdaily #drawdaily #createdaily

A photo looking down at Aliya’s shoes and the bottom third of her maxi dress. The shoes are (intentionally) mismatched loafers. The left shoe is orange, coral, highlighter yellow/green, mint, and has a black sole. The right shoe is yellow, medium green, coral, bubblegum pink, and has a brown sole. The dress is black with a print featuring a woman in a bikini riding a moped but the wheels are pink magic 8 balls. There are also hands holding knives and rats smoking cigarettes in the print lol.

Literally never could’ve imagined these mismatched loafers so PERFECTLY matching an article of clothing.

Shoes: Charlotte Stone
Dress: Nooworks

#shoes #maximalistfashion #charlottestoneshoes #nooworks

Mirror selfie of Aliya post-haircut. She is in a salon, seated at the mirror, wearing a pink maxi dress with vertical red squiggles (she loves pink and red together). She looks so good y’all. Like wow.

My friend Lo got me into a proper haircut again and I feel *so beautiful.* Nothing quite like having one of your best friends know how to make you feel the most like yourself.

Dress: nooworks

Photo of one of Aliya’s mixed media pieces on a wood panel. The piece is sitting partly on her lap and partly leaned against a pink metal outdoor table. It features a feminine figure with light purple skin and vibrant yellow-orange hair and there are red/pink flowers growing out of her chest. On the table behind, there is a set of Prismacolor colored pencils, a white paper cup, and a bottle of green juice.

Got this babe back from a show and am playing to bring her more to life.

#illustration #painting #drawing #womenwhodraw #womenwhopaint #womenartists #atlantaartist #illustrator #painter #artist #wip

Mirror selfie (Aliya) showing off an outfit. She is wearing: - A light, muted green and muted rosy color cap - A crop top from Morning Witch with a black background and large print of pomegranates, snakes, and doves - Chartreuse pants from Big Bud Press with a hand stamped print of ladybugs, grasshoppers, and praying mantises. The print is very spread out - A floral belt with a black background - A muted deep rosy corduroy jacket - Lots of jewelry, including a pearl necklace and dangly pearl earrings She is in a bathroom with a gallery wall behind her.

I’m gonna see how many ways I can style these new BBP bug pants. I feel freakin precious.

#bbp #bigbudpress #morningwitch #ootd

Uh oh it’s* back

*that impossibly heavy bad feeling

Finally starting Severance.

10 min in and my interest is *piqued*

You’re so right

when that breakfast is had at lunch and made of lunch foods

Girls trip to LA just for fun!

The way she was able to bring about that level of anger and hurt in such a short span just blew me away. Def picking up Women and Economics next.

Ok yeah loved it (my heart aches).

A photo of a hand holding the book The Yellow Wallpaper open to the title page. It is lying on a blanket with a floral print and there is a rainbow cast onto lefthand side of the book from nearby window light (due to a privacy film meant to cast rainbows).

Reading The Yellow Wallpaper for the first time. Wish me strength.

Thank you! 🩷❤️🧡

Bird’s eye view of a square painting, an open sketchbook, and a slew of tubes of gouache and colored pencils all on a pink blanket. The painting is of two hands (one light-medium purple, one sort of dark pink) coming from opposing corners and holding the face of a woman looking up. The woman is painted orange with bright red-orange hair. She does not have pupils or irises (this is very common of my work). There are red flowers growing out from where the hands are touching the face. And there is a ripple effect around the face of brush strokes and implied petals and leaves. There is a black background behind all of this. The open sketchbook shows it has been used as a palette for the gouache.

🌷Ripple Effect🌷

New 8x8” piece for Making Our Mark, a women and nonbinary artists’ show at Empire Arts in Atlanta. I started this piece over x2 because my first idea needs to be on a larger surface. But I’m happy with this pretty baby!

#painting #painter #atlartist #illustration #gouache

When are we as a society gonna learn to stop staring at each other?

except me it doesn’t count for me because I should be allowed I’m just taking in my surroundings I’m just being present try it some time (but don’t stare)

Yesss loofah!

Wtf I love this so much

THIS. Comfort, safety, and security for all. THAT is innovative.
And no not with militarized pol*ce or attempts at taking us back to England with that dork ass monarchy kink. And certainly not by defunding federal programs for marginalized groups. Come on.

Screenshot of an email that reads as follows: Dear Artist Applicant, We received your RFQ submission for the Walls Between Waters mural festival. We are grateful for your interest in this project. We are writing to share that you were not chosen to participate in Walls Between Waters. We had nearly 100 qualified applicants from all over the world submit their interest in the project, and only a handful of applicants were asked to move forward in the process. The decision was difficult. We reviewed applicants on the scale of their previous work, consistency of style, style of work, artist resume, and the artist’s statement of interest.

First rejection of 2025. Just part of the process.
Instead of feeling dejected, I responded asking for feedback on my application. If it was purely the style of my work, we just weren’t a good match. But if something else lacked, I want to know. Don’t be afraid to ask, “Why?”

#muralist #muralartist

I desperately need more hours in my days to just catch up on my baseline needs right now.

Where’s that guy who thinks he has three days per day? I have some questions.

Yeah like it’s an overwhelmingly positive thing. And we can still be a little envious lol.

Thank you so much for this. Gonna be useful as hell going forward.

There are so many cool mural opps in Colorado and Oregon and 90+% of them are for local artists. And I *deeply* love that commitment to supporting the creatives in their areas. But good god do I wish I lived in these states sometimes so I could apply.

Oh god same. This was my first in over a year I think. Can’t let that much time go by again.

Monthly massages for everyone should be considered a human right. I literally forget how much pain I’m in all the time until I see someone trained to get my body right again.

Can you imagine being the kid whose grandpas are Tony Hawk and Kurt Cobain?

I mean I can’t ‘cause Tony was my first celebrity crush and Kurt wasn’t far behind. But you guys. Can *you* imagine?