Market tomorrow! I'm most nervous about...waking up in time lol

Got my hair cut yesterday and it's more of a classic mullet than I intended lol I wanted it to grow out so I asked for it shorter but...it's pretty short lol it's ok. It'll grow out

Sketches of Aiba from Arashi. Even though I was a big fan for many years, I wasn’t drawing much at the time. now that they have ceased activities, I want to do fan art (>.<) I will always be a fan of Arashi so it’s ok (｡T ω T｡) #arashi #aibamasaki #嵐 #相葉雅紀 #fanart #art

Watercolor and gouache portrait of my cousin's late dog who was a huge sweetheart ❤️🐶🕊️ #art #watercolor #watercolorportrait #petportrait #animalpainting #dogpainting

Some gobyfish or walking fish in my sketchbook. They are so silly looking :p #art #watercolor #watercolorillustration #illustration #natureart #sketchbook

Market prep for the rest of the summer should be chill so I'm excited to paint again ( ˙꒳˙ )

The market got moved a day due to weather and it was still windy and cloudy today. Traffic was lower this year but I did pretty well considering ⸜(⸝⸝⸝´꒳`⸝⸝⸝)⸝ #art #smallbusiness

Made a cabbage leaf bag charm. I'm still a newbie at crochet but I think it's so cute!

Phew. I think I've finished prep for my (first) market. Just gotta pack up everything for transport (￣^￣)ゞ I may try to make some small originals in the meantime

New sticker packaging. I'm so please with how they turned out (*´▽`*) #art #stickers #smallbusiness

Had a meet up with people from the art crawl today. My area has a lot of older artists who are more traditional about art, like original art on canvas or framed watercolors, so their first question for me was "what do people do with your stickers?" Lol

The Cricut wasn't able to cut all the way through on most of my stickers but that could be because it's a shared resource so the blade is dull. I may grab my own to bring with me next time. Spending today with a craft knife to free the remaining stickers

In the end, this is my entry for #TrueRefDT013 <3

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I was so excited to find out my public library had a Cricut machine but omg the hoops I have to jump through for the software to let me do what I want. It even craps out when I try to use it the way its intended ლ(¯ロ¯ლ) Hopefully it'll speed up my sticker production and this'll all be worth it...

I wear size 5 women's shoes so I often don't bother looking for shoes at the thrift store since it's rare to find my size. Imagine my surprise to find these beauties in the boutique section! I had to snatch them up (I don't need more shoes)

Recently, Marcel has started to lay on my chest to make biscuits around 5am. It's very precious but also quite painful lol how could I deny such a face though?

A portrait of my late mother for mother's Day 💐 missing her everyday Kapeek Oil on birch board 6x4 in #art #oilpainting #portrait #traditionalart

Signed up for two more art markets for this summer. A little nervous about keeping up with stock cause I do everything by hand. A learning lesson for the future, perhaps (；´∀｀) #art #doodle

Hoping to do a proper illustration but I wanted to do a good ol’ figure study first. The lines made in this reference were too gorgeous #art #figurestudy

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today is my thirtieth 🕯️ it is a milestone I crawled to, but one that art helped guarantee. thank you for being here to share in the woes and wonders of life — but most importantly the imagination. the stranger, the better. here's to that strangeness.

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

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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