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Banana on Cat
@bananaoncat.bsky.social
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😸 Analogue Illustrator, craft & printmaker
🌈 Illustration, Editorial, 3D, Facilitation
👋 Contact me at [email protected]
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Banana on Cat @bananaoncat.bsky.social · Jan 31
Hello Bluesky 🦋 My name is Ben and I run Banana on Cat, a creative studio that loves analogue work, creative facilitation and printed goods. I ❤️ Horror movies • Japanese culture & folklore • Op shops • Bowser Cat • Mid century ceramics • Family art club • Stationery 😻 Hope to get to know you 🤟
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きつね - kitsune
🦊🧡
July 3, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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りゅう - ryū 💚🐲
July 2, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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さるがみ - surugami
🐵👑
July 1, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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あおおに ao-oni 🔵👹
June 30, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Happy democracy day fellow Aussies! Make it count and more importantly, have a lovely day 🌞
May 3, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Japan’s iconic horned & fanged troublemaker. A bad temper, crushing bones and guarding hell’s gates… and sometimes… unlikely protectors?

I enjoyed a more simple approach with this 👹 Oni – おに illustration.

#Yokai #Oni #CutPaperArt #JapaneseFolklore #Illustration
Cut paper collage of the Yokai, Oni, in textured blues & reds on a warm textured paper background. Cut paper collage of the Hiragana Kana Oni with an English translation underneath in dark blacks & purples on a warm textured paper background.
March 20, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Edit: Uploaded the wrong image. 20% more Kana! 😅

Next kana in my cut-paper yokai series: O お

Life has thrown everything at me this week, so I reckon I’ll hit the path of least resistance.

Let me know if you can guess it before I post 🤔👹

#Illustration #CutPaper #Yokai #Hiragana #HandmadeArt
Cut paper collage of the Hiragana Kana O in dark blacks & purples on a warm textured paper background.
March 20, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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More fanning out, this time with one of my all time favourite anime – オッドタクシ Odd Taxi.

These two chuckleheads, 田中一 Tanaka Hajime & 今井旬 Imai Shun 🐈‍⬛🦨🤷‍♂️❤️

#Illustration #FanArt #oddtaxi #CutPaperCollege #HandmadeArt #オッドタクシ
Cut paper collage of two central characters from Odd Taxi - Tanaka Hajime, an anthropomorphised grey cat in a blue hoodie & Imai Shun, an anthropomorphised skunk in a red jacket. On a lime green painted paper background.
March 19, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Sketchbook scenes from last weekends Makers Market 📖✏️✂️

#Journal #CutPaperCollege #IllustrationJourney
March 17, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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I have a Kirin… kinda close? 🌞🌝
March 12, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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feeling… skull 💀

#CutPaperCollege #Illustration #ExperimentsInPaper #Skull
Cut paper of a skull in textured greys and vibrant dark blue eye sockets on a warm textured paper background.
March 12, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Occasionally caught fanning out 👀 Fury Bowser snip style 🐢🔥🖤✂️

#Illustration #Bowser #BowsersFury #CutPaperCollege #HandmadeArt
Cut paper college of Fury Bowser from Bowser’s Fury in dark blues, red, neon pink on a bright orange backround
March 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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🍌🐈‍⬛❤️
March 6, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Had a hyper focus moment late last year where I was determined to create a vTube avatar to use somewhere… got as far creating Banana Cat 😸🍌

Looking to buy: time pocket dimension to get all my side projects done 🥲

#SideProject #HyperFocus #CharacterDevelopment #CutPaperIllustration
March 6, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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New illustration!

The え in Enenra – えんえんら – curls & twists up just like this yokai 👹🔥

Made from smoke and darkness it is said to emerge from the smouldering embers of bonfires. Legends claim only the pure of heart can glimpse its true form.

#Yokai #JapaneseFolklore #CutPaperCollege #HandMadeArt
Cut paper college of the smokey indistinct face of the Yokai Enenra. In dark blues and orangey reds on a warm textured paper background. Cut paper college of the Hiragana kana Enenra with the English translation underneath. In dark blue on a warm textured paper background.
March 5, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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My illustration journey so far has been a lot of this 👇 So much so that I wrote a Substack about it a while back…

bananaoncat.substack.com/p/keep-tryin...

What is your tactic for setback?

#IlustrationJourney #CreativeBusiness #Mindset
March 4, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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For anyone in Naarm / Melbourne on the weekend of 15/16 March, I’ll have a stall at this crackin’ makers market!
🤟✂️😸

Maybe see you there for chats & vibes.

#Market #SupportLocalArtists #Illustration
March 4, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Looking at you え 👀 for the next Hiragana Kana Yokai creation ✂️

Not sure if there’s much choice from my brief look, but looking forward to researching.

#Illustration #CutPaper #Yokai #JapaneseFolklore #Hiragana #HandmadeArt
Dark blue cut paper collage of the Hiragana kana E on a warm paper backround.
March 3, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Mr beany big foot silky paws baby esquire 😽🎩
March 3, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Condiment City

#Watercolour #IllustrationJourney #Kuretake
A painted watercolour collection of bottled condiments.
March 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Nakiryu - なきりゅう - Crying Dragon - of Nikko Toshogu Shrine

Little quick procreate sketch of this famous Kano Eishun temple painting. Would work well as a RISO print 🤔

Interesting fact: If you clap loudly under the dragon’s mouth, the echo reverberates like a dragon’s roar 👏🐲⚡️

#JapanFolklore
A colourful procreate sketch, in the style of s RISO print, of the Crying Dragon, Nikko Toshogu Shrine painting.
February 27, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Cut paper faces ✂️🙂

#Illustration #CutPaper #HandmadeArt
February 26, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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The leftovers ✂️
February 24, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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うしおに – Ushi-Oni.

Hello Mr Bovine headed, spider bodied, venom-spitting, six-legged nightmare.

Sir, please, I’d rather not be dinner… ♉️🕷️🍽️🙀

#Yokai #JapaneseFolklore #Illustration #HandCutPaper
Cut paper college of a 6 legged spider body with a scary Ox head climbing over a Torii Gate. Cut paper illustration of a the word Ushi-oni with a Hiragana Kana version above it.
February 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Watery inky faces 👹👺

#Illustration #Kuretake #Yokai
February 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM