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Laya 🌿🍄

@layahimalaya.bsky.social

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Hugo award winning illustrator/designer (and sometimes cosplayer) in Aotearoa 🌼 I love fantasy, fungi & books! she/her layaroseart.com/links overgrowncomic.com

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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · Apr 12

I’m Laya, an artist who loves fantasy, nature, & books!
I design/illustrate covers/picture books, make bookmarks/stickers & other merch, and do lots of book fanart!

🌿 layaroseart.com/links
✉ layaroseart.kit.com

Photo of a bunch of paperback books, spines visible, with some picture books (cover forward) on the right, with some aesthetic vines and mushrooms around. The books include: Xenocultivars, No Man's Land, Errant, There's Magic Between Us, Common Bonds, Once Stolen, Ngake Me Whataitai, and The Eight Gifts of Te Wheke.

illustration of two girls in a spooky forest, surrounded by glowing mushrooms and moss and animal bones. The girl on the left is taller, with brown skin and braids, and is holding up a bone knife and protecting the other girl, in a thin dress with blank eyes and a white streak in her hair. Behind the tree trunks behind them is the silhouette of a large raven with its wings outstretched, blending into the sky, with glowing eyes.

Illustration of red and blue from this is how you lose the time war. They are floating on a white background, hands clasped, with the other hands on a knee and in the hair. Red is robotic, with a full face visor and black short hair with red tips, chest armour and armoured arms with cybernetic patters, a red hood, and a long split skirt over legs that go to points. Blue is planty and animalistic, with a mask-like face with 6 yellow eyes and fangs, long curly dark hair, insect wings, four arms with vines going up them and bent back feet. She is wearing a short sleeved top and long skirt.

flatlay of various prints stickers and bookmarks, all green/cream with bug and moss themes. There's a moth book spine bookmark, two moth stickers, a snail sticker, a sticker and print of bug themed book spines, and a sticker sheet of mossy skulls with a couple bugs, and some cicada wing earrings. Also a bookmark of a snake around a gold dagger (snakes can be bugs).

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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 12h

i sent one this morning without it hoping for the best LMAO

Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 12h

not super obvious unless you look so presumably there’ll be a grace period but :/

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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 13h

eugh. it'd be nice to hope that this will blow over and revert at some point but.........

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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 15h

just extra time consuming I guess, but man :/

Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 16h

I don't know if this is anyone from anywhere sending there or just NZpost being extra vigilant but. well it is so awesome to be an artist whose main customer base is americans buying stickers and bookmarks!!!!!

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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 17h

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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 17h

so now we apparently have to fill out customs forms to send LETTERS to the US.

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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 3d

I have prints & stickers of these on my store:

Guinevere prints & stickers from Laya Rose Art

prints & stickers from knights 0f guinevere! sticker: 13cm tall, textured sparkly laminate, waterproof but not weatherproof a5 print, 230gsm matte mini print 10x15 semi-gloss photographic

layaroseart.storenvy.com

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🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · 13d

vestigial

Swarm of butterflies drawn with a pencil texture. A small face is repeatedly peering through the wings

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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 4d

I looove Knights of Guinevere it's so interesting

#KnightsOfGuinevere #art

digital illustration of guinevere from knights of guinevere. she is the head and torso of a doll with an empty expression and messy shaved blue hair. she is laying in a bunch of pale periwinkle irises, in a pointed frame, with bunches by either side of her head. There's bright blue viney guts coming out of the bottom of her ribcage.

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 6d

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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 5d

some beautiful art I got recently from @evenlyevi.bsky.social!

photo of various illustration prints, mostly in blue tones of plants and flowers.

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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 8d

again today! i am a mushroom

Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 9d

i’m at great games with pals this weekend! if you’re in wellington come to the dominion museum 10-4 both days!

photo of me at my table, with lots of bright fantasy and nature themed art and a banner that says laya rose art

close up photo of my table showing my bookmark stand and some of my stickers

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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 9d

2 more hours today i just forgot about this site. tomorrow tho! also zinefest is just down the road to visit also!

Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 9d

i’m at great games with pals this weekend! if you’re in wellington come to the dominion museum 10-4 both days!

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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 12d

hahaha thank you!!

Also I listened to Audition For the Fox a few days ago! Enjoyed it a lot!

Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 12d

also rue my beloved!

#art #acourtoffeyandflowers #dimension20

digital illustration of rue from a court of fey and flowers, a green owlbear from the arms up, clutching a scroll with closed eyes and hearts. They have some pink roses on their shoulders and head. the background is green, with a swirly border.

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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 12d

they really are. absolute chaos...

Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 12d

i watched acofaf earlier this year and loved it a lot! here are the lords of the wing, gossiping about something...

#art #acourtoffeyandflowers #dimension20