“Snowy White, Rosy Red, will you beat your lover dead?” #art #illustration #fairytale

Mami Wata #art #illustration

Mr. Miyazaki and Totoro. #art #illustration #studioghibli #totoro #トトロ

Tangles and tadpoles. #art #illustration #watercolor #ink #traditionalart

A woman to bring the dawn—may these soothing, pastel colors bring peace and light to your life. #art #illustration #graphite

A memory from childhood: orchids and family. #art #illustration #sketch #graphite

Welcoming the Year of the Snake. Happy Lunar New Year! #art #illustration #ink #watercolor

Tigers and bulldogs. #art #illustration #graphite #drawing

“Ah” and “un”, the beginning and the end. #art #illustration #graphite #kitsune

Whenever I'm Lost, I Return to the Sea. A dragon appears from the swirling depths, but this woman warrior is not afraid. #art #illustration #dragon

One day my Etsy shop will be open again, so if you’d like to watch it, check out caitlinono.etsy.com.

Irises and axolotls. #art #illustration #ink #watercolor

“All is vanity, and remember you must die.”

Tigers are auspicious in Japan, but they aren’t native. Inspired by Chinese scrolls and legends, traditional Japanese artists who’d never seen tigers used imagination to design “tigers”. Based on that, a young girl paints stripes onto a scowling beast surrounded by whimsically designed tigers(?).

"Till human voices wake us, and we drown." I dreamt of mermaids through the spring-- of princely, lady lovers and fairy tales of seafoam. #art #illustration #mermaid #mermaidart #fairytale #fantasyart #romanticart

The ʻakiapōlaʻau is one of Hawaiʻi’s endangered honeycreepers. #art #illustration

Testing out this.