Some crayon doodles to celebrate Asian heritage month with some of my fav fruits! What's your favorite Asian fruit? Longan and rambutan hold special memories for me cause my mom would peel them for me and be mad cause it was expensive lol #art #asianartist #illustration #asianfood #sketchbook

I had so much fun painting this, so I have to share it again... #cats #artsky #kleineKunstklasse

'Naturaleza muerta con frutas' Creación de 1873. Técnica: Óleo sobre tela. Dimensiones: 65,5 × 85,5 cm. Ubicación: Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brasil. Autor: Agostinho José da Mota (brasileño, 1824-1878) #arts #paintings

Masayo Fukuda, contemporary master of kirie, or Japanese paper-cutting, crafting hyper detailed creatures from single sheets of paper #womensart

Played around with making a font from my handwriting. It'd make a great comic font imo. My handwriting is rarely this neat though irl lol I used www.calligraphr.com/en/ to make it! #art #doodles #handwriting #font

Horror

siren warship #mermay

Come get your resources, photo ref, tutorials, and more! 📣

I updated my Etsy shop with two new prints and critter stickers! This month, get 15% off on 3 items with code "May15". Visit stephanylayart.etsy.com ⋆⭒˚.⋆ (Currently only shipping within Canada) #art #smallbusiness #watercolor #stickers #prints

I want to do some AAPI inspired work for this month but I'm actually quite busy (why does this always happen to me) it might just be exploration and not any final work and I gotta remind myself that's ok

I may have accidentally put too much salt in my tone when someone *told* me we used to have them and I replied "no, we didn't." We haven't since I've worked there and I should have redirected them to making their own. It can be hard to manage the snark in retail (￢_￢;)

Camomille [Id 1 to 4: Four points of view of a wooden prairie dog standing up. On a workbench with a chisel and woodchips. The eyes are painted in black with white and grey dots.]

Began market prep and I'm already exhausted ( ; ω ; )

whimsical 🌙✨ [ sparkles o' mischief ] more art: cosmicloak.square.site [ #repostyourart #cat #ocsky #furryart #originalart #traditionalart ]

Reject AI, embrace 愛

I will never forgive AI for destroying one of my favorite emoji/symbols the humble sparkle

Swallowtail caterpillar sketch I must admit, I was not expecting this shift in colour palette to be quite as revolutionary as it turned out to be. I immediately feel more connected to my work. It just feels like me (´• ω •`) #art #sketchbook #watercolor #natureart

Received a lovely card from my friend who just went back home to Korea 💌

I work at an art store and I've been asked about ATCs a few times. No serious judgement but you could just cut your own, ne? (￣▽￣*)ゞ

Some digital vampire mouth studies #art #digitalpainting #csp #vampire

It was a beautiful day today so went for a walk on a local trail. It was fun finding little critters

Cutting stickers. Maybe one day I'll get a Cricut lol

Watercolor snail and beetles from my sketchbook. New stickers incoming 🐌🪲 #art #watercolor #illustration #stickerdesign #bugart #snailart

My niece was getting bored at an event so I loaned her my sketchbook and watercolor. She did an amazing job! I definitely want to get her a small sketchbook she can carry with her but do I spoil a 7 year old with artist grade watercolor? (￣▽￣*)ゞ

Applied for a market in June. Not sure if I really fit the theme but I dont not fit the theme 👀🤞

Watercolor sketch from this morning. Trying to hone in on my personal color palette #art #watercolor #foodart

I spent this morning going through my finances to prepare to do my taxes. Every year I say I will keep on top of it but every year at this time I am scrambling haha

I was visited by this interesting looking Easter bunny yesterday #art (?) #cat #photomanip #mixedmedia

Hoppy Easter everyone 🐇🥚 some loose watercolor bunnies to celebrate #art #watercolor #illustration #animalart #bunny

shrimpo #art

Some thrift store finds~ Pinking sheers that are actually in great shape and this charming chicken print fabric I plan on making a furoshiki from ( ´ ω ` )

Some more flower studies 🌹 see below for timelapse #art #digitalpainting #botanicalart

Practicing painting flowers for another illustration I'm working on. See timelapse below 🌹 Whenever I paint flowers I get so overwhelmed and it seems I paint them often enough that I should finally do some proper studies. Reference from Pexels #art #digitalpainting #botanicalpainting #stilllife

𝕭𝖆𝖙𝖙𝖑𝖊 𝕭𝖊𝖊𝖙𝖑𝖊 ✦

I doodled this dramatic frog the other day and I love him sm. I'll likely turn him into a sticker :3 #art #sketchbook #doodle #illustration #frogillustration

Take time to enjoy the little things. Another in the ‘Motivational Kaiju’ series #art #kaiju

A piece I made for a colourful prompt which made me think of clowns and excitement but also overstimulation and uncertainty. I aimed to capture dual emotions in her face, meant to be a bit unsettling. I'm really pleased with the painted edges, bringing the theme together. #art #portraitart #clown

I did a knitting challenge to raise funds for cancer research in Feb (raised $300!). I ended up making a floor turtle to mop up spills in the kitchen, a holder for my hand sanitizer and socks for my partner (*´▽`*) #knitting

I had started a Valentine's inspired illustration but I had to study this week and didn't have time to finish. It's not explicitly valentines so I will still finish it for sometime soon :D

From sketch to a finished watercolour painting. I tend to sketch from faces, so when I get to the body, it leaves a lot to be desired :P I took the sketch onto my iPad make the drawing more interesting after learning some things from my fanart era last year. #art #watercolor #illustration #portrait

Experimenting more with an abstract workflow for portraits plus a limited palette. I'll first lay down a wet in wet layer and then define the portrait after that layer has dried, leaving parts of the underpainting visible. #art #watercolorportrait #watercolor #portraitpainting

I have a commission I've been sitting on for a little while and I realize I just don't like how I did it. The figure is fine but I hate the background. I will try to rework the background but I may just have to redo the whole thing

I need to make more silly art.

Year of the Horse print is now live on my Etsy! 🐎🏮 Man, horses are hard to draw but I had fun learning! This is my year, so hoping for good fortune for all my horse friends 🐴 Visit stephanylayart.etsy.com #art #smallbusiness #chinesenewyear #lunarnewyear #illustration #watercolor #yearofthehorse

I get a bulk order for my new years cards every year and this year I decided to get them printed by a 3rd party. I did not foresee it being so difficult to paint the gold details on this paper >.< I have a few more days to get it figured out

Made myself a DIY "in the round" row counter using shrink plastic. The proportions are a little funny tbh but the beads are so cute! I need to make more with shrink plastic. It's so satisfying when they are shrunk down #art #knitting #fiberart #diy #craft #shrinkplastic

Year of the Horse print is now live on my Etsy! 🐎🏮 Man, horses are hard to draw but I had fun learning! This is my year, so hoping for good fortune for all my horse friends 🐴 Visit stephanylayart.etsy.com #art #smallbusiness #chinesenewyear #lunarnewyear #illustration #watercolor #yearofthehorse

I somehow got it in my head Chinese New Year was at the end of February (like 20 something) but it's the 17th (*ﾉ∀`*) gotta get a move on omg

Working on my yearly Chinese new year illustration 🐎 #art #illustration #watercolor