Hi #portfolioday I'm Zara, a Canadian artist working mainly on Magic: The gathering and painting for myself in my free time 🖤

Novice Occultist for Magic: The Gathering🖤🕯️ AD: Cynthia Sheppard #art #painting

Blue & Gold 🖤 #art #painting

Novice Occultist for Magic: The Gathering🖤🕯️ AD: Cynthia Sheppard #art #painting

Hi #portfolioday I'm Zara, a Canadian artist working mainly on Magic: The gathering and painting for myself in my free time 🖤

My newest card Dualcaster Mage for The Magic: The Gathering Secrets of Strixhaven Special Guests! 🖤 AD: Jameela Wahlgren & Sarah Wassell The original oil painting has been sold to a generous private offer. Prints are available & the sketch will be looking for a home soon 😊 #art #mtgsos #oilpainting

Sketch for Dualcaster Mage 🖤 #art #sketch

Blue & Gold 🖤 #art #painting

The painting may be sold, but the original sketch for Dualcaster Mage by @zaraalfonso.bsky.social is available! Link in my bio, available at a friendly fixed price with best offer for a Special Guest and Staple!

The prelim drawing for my newest MtG card Dualcaster Mage is looking for a home 🖤 zaraalfonso.com/live/

My newest card Dualcaster Mage for The Magic: The Gathering Secrets of Strixhaven Special Guests! 🖤 AD: Jameela Wahlgren & Sarah Wassell The original oil painting has been sold to a generous private offer. Prints are available & the sketch will be looking for a home soon 😊 #art #mtgsos #oilpainting

Dualcaster Mage by @zaraalfonso.bsky.social l Oil on Board, 12" x 16" For the Special Guests of #MTGSOS This work has been sold to a generous private offer. An offering for the preliminary work is forthcoming.

I’m a guest artist today and this weekend at the F2F Vancouver magic event! Come say hi if you’re here 🖤

My Spirit Token painted for MtG Tarkir Dragonstorm was selected for Infected by Art Volume 14! This is my favourite oil painting I’ve done for Magic so far, so it holds a really special place for me 🖤 #art #magicthegathering #oilpainting #traditionalart

My Spirit Token painted for MtG Tarkir Dragonstorm was selected for Infected by Art Volume 14! This is my favourite oil painting I’ve done for Magic so far, so it holds a really special place for me 🖤 #art #magicthegathering #oilpainting #traditionalart

Today I got 6 of the 11 tokens from @zaraalfonso.bsky.social that my favourite commander deck Grand Warlord Radha produces!! They look soooooo good!!!

I'll be a guest artist this weekend in Toronto at the F2F Magic: The Gathering Spotlight Series Event! Come say hi if you're there 🖤 #magicthegathering #mtg #artist

I'll be a guest artist this weekend in Toronto at the F2F Magic: The Gathering Spotlight Series Event! Come say hi if you're there 🖤 #magicthegathering #mtg #artist

I'm excited to share that I'm part of the Magic: The Gathering, In Miniature III show at Gallery Nucleus! I oil painted three artist proofs for the show, and two of them sold during the preview 🖤 #art #oilpainting #traditionalart #mtgart

I'm excited to share that I'm part of the Magic: The Gathering, In Miniature III show at Gallery Nucleus! I oil painted three artist proofs for the show, and two of them sold during the preview 🖤 #art #oilpainting #traditionalart #mtgart

"Things Left Behind", personal piece from 2019 or so. I'm always trying to remind myself to save some time for personal work like this, but I haven't been terribly effective at doing so.

I’m really excited to share that I won the Frank R. Paul Award for Best Magazine Cover Art! My painting Stasis, a self-portrait about invisible illness, was featured on the cover of Uncanny Magazine Issue 58 🖤 #art #painting #portrait #illustration

I’m really excited to share that I won the Frank R. Paul Award for Best Magazine Cover Art! My painting Stasis, a self-portrait about invisible illness, was featured on the cover of Uncanny Magazine Issue 58 🖤 #art #painting #portrait #illustration

I’ll be at the Calgary F2F tour this weekend, come say hi if you’re there 🖤

I’ll be at the Calgary F2F tour this weekend, come say hi if you’re there 🖤

Little pumpkin witch pencil sketch 🖤🎃

Little pumpkin witch pencil sketch 🖤🎃

Congratulations to Zara Alfonso, Galen Dara, and John Picacio! Their 2024 Uncanny Magazine covers are all finalists for 2025 Frank R. Paul Best Magazine Cover Art Awards! buff.ly/qvJxWdL

It's cheap and versatile. Want to protect your creature after farewell? Remove an attacker that would kill you? Remove a blocker to make sure your hit connects? Remove a combo piece? Need one extra point of damage in your turn? All for the low price of 1 blue mana thanks to @zaraalfonso.bsky.social

I'm so happy!! Sami!

I’m at MagicCon Atlanta! Come say hi at table 10092 🖤

I’m at MagicCon Atlanta! Come say hi at table 10092 🖤

Pencil sketch of young Medusa 🖤 #art #pencil #sketchbook #drawing #sketch

Pencil sketch of young Medusa 🖤 #art #pencil #sketchbook #drawing #sketch

Fairy pencil drawing 🖤 #art #pencil #sketch #sketchbook

Fairy pencil drawing 🖤 #art #pencil #sketch #sketchbook

Ouroboroid for Magic the Gathering Edge of Eternities! 🌱

I’m at GenCon! Come see me at booth 74 🖤

I’m at GenCon! Come see me at booth 74 🖤

My sketch for Sami, Ship's Engineer is looking for a home! 🖤 zaraalfonso.com/live #art #mtg #sketch #pencil

My sketch for Sami, Ship's Engineer is looking for a home! 🖤 zaraalfonso.com/live #art #mtg #sketch #pencil

My oil painting is looking for a home until tonight at 10pm ET 🖤 #art #mtgart #painting zaraalfonso.com/live/

@zaraalfonso.bsky.social I got a print from you a couple years ago at a magic con and I finally got it framed and hanging in my home 😁

My oil painting is looking for a home until tonight at 10pm ET 🖤 #art #mtgart #painting zaraalfonso.com/live/

Excited to share my newest oil painting Sami, Ship's Engineer for Magic: The Gathering! 🖤 I'm a big fan of sci-fi, as well as being very into cute and cozy aesthetics, so this was an extra fun one to paint 😊 #art #mtgart #oilpainting #traditionalart

Excited to share my newest oil painting Sami, Ship's Engineer for Magic: The Gathering! 🖤 I'm a big fan of sci-fi, as well as being very into cute and cozy aesthetics, so this was an extra fun one to paint 😊 #art #mtgart #oilpainting #traditionalart

Sami, Ship's Engineer by @zaraalfonso.bsky.social Oil on Ampersand Gessoboard, 16" x 20" A featured legend in the story, and a Limited signpost. Plus a cat! Auction ends Sunday mtgart.auction/Sami

At Magic Con Las Vegas! 🖤

@zaraalfonso.bsky.social continues to bless us with incredibly attractive characters