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"Childhood toys," ref. exhibition at Sofia History Museum, August 2023.

screen print technique.

[ID: a colourful digital drawing reminiscent of vintage screen print style, depicting a variety of children's toys from sixties-seventies Bulgaria. Among the toys included are a miniature sewing machine, a teddy bear, a plush rabbit, tennis racquets, dolls, and a plush tiger. ID]

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My journal, recent pages.

[14.03.24]

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Happy birthday to me! 🎂 21 today!

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Happy 90th birthday Tom Baker!

Tribute to my favourite roles of his. 

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Thank you so much @chadtts for the lovely gift! I adore it ♡

‼️it's finished‼️my piece for the @secret-cyborg art trade is here 😎 @vanajinn hope you like it, your art is very lovely 🥰👍

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Well... my entry for the @secret-cyborg event! I fear I might have interpreted the prompt rather abstractly... "man in the mirror," or machine in the mirror? There's a certain element of symbolism I attempted.

Happy holidays @rubeau-art!

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[ID: a series of three digital drawings of the 1961 film A Taste of Honey. The drawings are all rendered in a black-and-white traditional style. The first depicts protagonist Jo in profile, holding a sparkler. The second depicts Jo and Jimmy from the waist-up, standing next to one another. In the background a single lamp is lit, illuminating their figures. The third depicts Jo from the shoulders up, glancing to the side. end ID]

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Time Ladies 

[ID: two digital drawings of Romana I and Romana II. The first depicts Romana I against a black backdrop lying down in a white dress with a feathered hood. She is gazing at the viewer with a look of superiority. Her white dress is flowing and iridescent. The second depicts Romana II from the shoulders-up, illuminated from the left by the light. She is dressed in a schoolgirl outfit with a dress over a white shirt and a red tie. Her hand is adjusting a straw hat and she is smiling with a knowing look. Both drawings are rendered with pencil, acrylic, and chalk-like brushes. end ID]

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[ID: eight square digital art studies of Loran Cehak from Turn A Gundam, referencing the soundtrack cover art. Loran is a dark-skinned boy with white straight hair and green eyes, and is portrayed close-up. Each of the squares is drawn using different brushes. Some are acrylic, others are pastel, and one is watercolour. end ID]

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[ID: a digital study from Doctor Who S12E1 "Robot" done in gouache render and with majority blue hue. It depicts the Fourth Doctor post-regeneration, bent down in front of a small mirror with a mixture of shock and amazement. The small mirror, a lamp, a typewriter, and rotary phone are on a desk. The TARDIS is in the background. A window behind the mirror is open, with the shutters letting light through and illuminating the scene. end ID]

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Visual development for a 1950s/60s era gay Balkans short play I wrote for a university course. Referenced a lot of my mother’s childhood photographs for this. 

Image ID below the cut. 

[ID: a set of four digital black-and-white drawings rendered with a mixed media style. The first depicts a typical Balkan apartment kitchen with cutlery and pots strewn about. The second depicts two young women, one with short cropped hair and one with long hair, embracing with their arms around one another against the backdrop of a bedroom with a lamp and calendar hanging on the wall. The third is in the style of a class photo, and depicts a group of young women in matching uniforms smiling and looking at the camera. One in the middle has short hair. The fourth depicts a young woman wearing a shawl and long overcoat over a skirt, holding a bouquet of flowers. She is standing in an open city square and it is snowing. end ID]

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Wishing everyone a happy and safe Disability Pride Month! I'm grateful for all the support and love you have shown me.

If you feel so inclined, please consider supporting me on instagram or ko-fi. (prints archived until further notice)

Thank you! ♡

[ID: a 2x2 collage of various pieces of art depicting people wearing hearing aids. three are digital art, and one is a collage of photographs. the top left depicts a person with short hair in profile, the bottom left depicts a light-skinned man and dark-skinned man kissing, and the bottom right depicts a black girl in profile wearing citrus-themed beads and an orange hearing aid. end ID]

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[ID: a digital drawing of Billy from the 1969 film Kes. He is a young boy with light brown hair who wears a green-toned button-up shirt and jacket. He is depicted from the waist-up with one arm outstretched and the other towards him. A brown kestrel is perched on his arm and partially covers his face. The drawing is done in a mixed-media style. end ID]

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I wanted to post today, but it seems that this site has permanently switched to the new editor for photosets. My artwork appears as a text post and the format is all janky... feel really upset by this change and not sure what to do now.

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Statue studies ... studying form/shading/ negative space 

[ID: two digital drawings referenced from nude statues. Both drawings depict two lovers in embrace: the first are facing away from the viewer and have their arms around each other whilst sitting on a rock. The second are standing side by side while one wrapping the other’s face with their arm. The drawings are rendered in a style mixing pencils, chalk, and watercolour. end ID]

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[ID: a digital drawing of a young woman standing with her head turned to the side. Her hair is dark and she is wearing a simple white nightgown-like dress. A halo hovers above her head. She is painted against the background of a photo depicting an apartment stairway landing, flanked with a display of plants near a large window. The window is open and is gazing pensively outward. end ID]

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A reminder that March is Disability Awareness Month! Thank you for all your love so far; as a disabled artist it means the world to me.  

If you’d like to support me, here’s my ko-fi page ♡

young lady with a hearing aid 🍊🦻🏾 [ko-fi / prints]

[ID: a digital drawing of a black girl in profile from the neck up. Her hair is in many small braids, each ending in round yellow beads with green stems that resemble oranges. She has an orange-coloured over the ear hearing aid and a large earring shaped like an orange. end ID]