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Aliya
@aliyailsa.bsky.social
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Muralist. Illustrator. ADHD. Language-obsessed. Searcher of weird. Sower of gentle chaos. Lover of all things living. she/her
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The baby and the beast

#balinesecat #balinese #colorpointcat #colorpoint #agirlandhercat
Selfie of Aliya with her cat, Jeremy. Aliya is wearing a pink and red dress and a pink cap. She and Jeremy are sitting on a wicker couch and her arm is around him. He is a Balinese cat (color point with light body and a dark face, ears, tail, and paws). They both look calm. Another selfie of Aliya with her cat, Jeremy. This time, she is smiling and he is yawning and his yawn shows his fangs and makes him look ferocious.
June 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Idk why there’s not an option to post both a still image and a video in the same set, but here’s a time lapse of my sketch from today.

#nokingsday #nokings #procreate #digitalart #digitaldrawing #drawing #illustration #illustrator #makeart #speakup #createdaily #drawdaily
June 15, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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A bit different from my usual work, but obviously had to sketch something up today.
Love you guys. Stay together, stay safe.

#nokings #nokingsday #illustration #illustrator #makeart #createdaily #drawing #drawdaily #speakup
Illustration by Aliya showing a crow atop a gold, bejeweled crown. The crow has a red jewel in its mouth that it took from the crown. The jewel appears still connected to the crown by something that looks like tendons. There is a split orange circle in the background and behind that is all black. The subjects are lined in red and the crow has red eyes.
June 15, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Another sketch. Colored pencil on gouache- and ink-washed paper.

#sketch #drawing #portrait #portraitsketch #coloredpencil #prismacolor #womenwhodraw #drawdaily #sketchdaily #makeart #atlantaartist #artist #illustrator
A sketch of a bust of Black man in colored pencil on a piece of paper that has been gouache- and ink-washed. The sketch is in red, pink, orange, and yellow hues. There are stars around the man. He is looking to his left (the viewer’s right). He has a beard with a connecting mustache and he has fairly short locs pulled up into a ponytail.
June 14, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Pretty little sketch the other night to warm up

#sketch #coloredpencil #inkwash #drawing #womenwhodraw #feminineart #celestialart #stars #sketchdaily #drawdaily #createdaily
A small piece of paper with deckled edges on a cardboard background. The paper is blue toned but has a fluorescent pink ink wash on it. On top of the wash is a sketch of a woman looking to her right (left for the viewer). Out of her eye is a triangle of increasing darkness with a couple of stars in it. In her chest is an open doors with the same darkness/space and stars are flowing out of it and around her.
June 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Literally never could’ve imagined these mismatched loafers so PERFECTLY matching an article of clothing.

Shoes: Charlotte Stone
Dress: Nooworks

#shoes #maximalistfashion #charlottestoneshoes #nooworks
A photo looking down at Aliya’s shoes and the bottom third of her maxi dress. The shoes are (intentionally) mismatched loafers. The left shoe is orange, coral, highlighter yellow/green, mint, and has a black sole. The right shoe is yellow, medium green, coral, bubblegum pink, and has a brown sole. The dress is black with a print featuring a woman in a bikini riding a moped but the wheels are pink magic 8 balls. There are also hands holding knives and rats smoking cigarettes in the print lol.
April 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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My friend Lo got me into a proper haircut again and I feel *so beautiful.* Nothing quite like having one of your best friends know how to make you feel the most like yourself.

Dress: nooworks
Mirror selfie of Aliya post-haircut. She is in a salon, seated at the mirror, wearing a pink maxi dress with vertical red squiggles (she loves pink and red together). She looks so good y’all. Like wow.
April 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Got this babe back from a show and am playing to bring her more to life.

#illustration #painting #drawing #womenwhodraw #womenwhopaint #womenartists #atlantaartist #illustrator #painter #artist #wip
Photo of one of Aliya’s mixed media pieces on a wood panel. The piece is sitting partly on her lap and partly leaned against a pink metal outdoor table. It features a feminine figure with light purple skin and vibrant yellow-orange hair and there are red/pink flowers growing out of her chest. On the table behind, there is a set of Prismacolor colored pencils, a white paper cup, and a bottle of green juice.
April 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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I’m gonna see how many ways I can style these new BBP bug pants. I feel freakin precious.

#bbp #bigbudpress #morningwitch #ootd
Mirror selfie (Aliya) showing off an outfit. She is wearing: - A light, muted green and muted rosy color cap - A crop top from Morning Witch with a black background and large print of pomegranates, snakes, and doves - Chartreuse pants from Big Bud Press with a hand stamped print of ladybugs, grasshoppers, and praying mantises. The print is very spread out - A floral belt with a black background - A muted deep rosy corduroy jacket - Lots of jewelry, including a pearl necklace and dangly pearl earrings She is in a bathroom with a gallery wall behind her.
March 31, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Uh oh it’s* back

*that impossibly heavy bad feeling
March 30, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Finally starting Severance.

10 min in and my interest is *piqued*
March 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Reading The Yellow Wallpaper for the first time. Wish me strength.
A photo of a hand holding the book The Yellow Wallpaper open to the title page. It is lying on a blanket with a floral print and there is a rainbow cast onto lefthand side of the book from nearby window light (due to a privacy film meant to cast rainbows).
March 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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🌷Ripple Effect🌷

New 8x8” piece for Making Our Mark, a women and nonbinary artists’ show at Empire Arts in Atlanta. I started this piece over x2 because my first idea needs to be on a larger surface. But I’m happy with this pretty baby!

#painting #painter #atlartist #illustration #gouache
Bird’s eye view of a square painting, an open sketchbook, and a slew of tubes of gouache and colored pencils all on a pink blanket. The painting is of two hands (one light-medium purple, one sort of dark pink) coming from opposing corners and holding the face of a woman looking up. The woman is painted orange with bright red-orange hair. She does not have pupils or irises (this is very common of my work). There are red flowers growing out from where the hands are touching the face. And there is a ripple effect around the face of brush strokes and implied petals and leaves. There is a black background behind all of this. The open sketchbook shows it has been used as a palette for the gouache.
February 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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When are we as a society gonna learn to stop staring at each other?

except me it doesn’t count for me because I should be allowed I’m just taking in my surroundings I’m just being present try it some time (but don’t stare)
February 27, 2025 at 5:37 AM
aliyailsa.bsky.social
THIS. Comfort, safety, and security for all. THAT is innovative.
And no not with militarized pol*ce or attempts at taking us back to England with that dork ass monarchy kink. And certainly not by defunding federal programs for marginalized groups. Come on.
ninaturner.bsky.social Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · Feb 20
Americans want universal healthcare, not a colony on Mars.

And don’t tell me it’s about “innovation.”

Making sure every American has housing, food, and healthcare is innovation, too.
February 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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First rejection of 2025. Just part of the process.
Instead of feeling dejected, I responded asking for feedback on my application. If it was purely the style of my work, we just weren’t a good match. But if something else lacked, I want to know. Don’t be afraid to ask, “Why?”

#muralist #muralartist
Screenshot of an email that reads as follows: Dear Artist Applicant, We received your RFQ submission for the Walls Between Waters mural festival. We are grateful for your interest in this project. We are writing to share that you were not chosen to participate in Walls Between Waters. We had nearly 100 qualified applicants from all over the world submit their interest in the project, and only a handful of applicants were asked to move forward in the process. The decision was difficult. We reviewed applicants on the scale of their previous work, consistency of style, style of work, artist resume, and the artist’s statement of interest.
February 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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I desperately need more hours in my days to just catch up on my baseline needs right now.

Where’s that guy who thinks he has three days per day? I have some questions.
February 19, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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There are so many cool mural opps in Colorado and Oregon and 90+% of them are for local artists. And I *deeply* love that commitment to supporting the creatives in their areas. But good god do I wish I lived in these states sometimes so I could apply.
February 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
aliyailsa.bsky.social
Monthly massages for everyone should be considered a human right. I literally forget how much pain I’m in all the time until I see someone trained to get my body right again.
February 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Can you imagine being the kid whose grandpas are Tony Hawk and Kurt Cobain?

I mean I can’t ‘cause Tony was my first celebrity crush and Kurt wasn’t far behind. But you guys. Can *you* imagine?
February 18, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Someone said “morning beauts” after talking about coffee and this was what happened to me. 🫘
aliyailsa.bsky.social Aliya @aliyailsa.bsky.social · Feb 18
Read this as “morning beanuts” like it was a nickname for the coffee itself. So I guess that’s what I’ll be calling it forever.
February 18, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Everyone please go freeze your credit with all three credit bureaus right now.
We are collateral in DOGE’s new site getting hacked within *hours* of existing.

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February 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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February 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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I want y’all to know that you can have under 10k IG followers and have impressive clients that most artists never work with. You can also have impressive clients and not be sure if you’ll ever get another.
Being a full time artist is feast or famine. And I’d still never want to work a desk job.
February 15, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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I’ve applied to 20 opportunities so far in 2025. Searching for RFQs, rosters, and individual calls is fun. Applying is tiring but motivating. Waiting to hear back? Fresh hell.

#muralist #muralartist #artist #painter #illustrator
February 15, 2025 at 4:03 AM