I love how this one turned out. Started with collage paper and acrylic medium, added blue watercolor and Stabilo pencil lines, pink and cool grey acrylic, and finished with neon oil pastel, was my first time using those. Such a fun one to make. #abstractpainting #mixedmedia #collageart #a

Today’s tiny truth. “Hurry, hurry, still time to build an unprecedented embarrassment of riches.” The manufactured urgency, the fake sense of opportunity, it’s all classic ad-speak. But sit with the phrase itself for a second, an embarrassment of riches, while most people are struggling just to kee

This was probably the most fun one to make so far. I started with a red Stabilo pencil, added marks, then layered in pink and yellow paint. A few layers in, I stamped with bubble wrap dipped in lavender, and I love how that turned out. Later I taped off a section with painter’s tape to attempt to c

Tasked with studying history and identity. Most of us were handed a fabricated version of both in school, a curated narrative rather than the actual history of who we come from and what was really done in our names. Real identity requires real history, not the sanitized version we were taught to ac

This one started as a random idea in my notebook, an almost-discarded image of a headless girl tending to plants, and the idea that maybe her head should become a plant too, like she’d transformed from all that care. Found the perfect cabbage in my collage cutouts book and it worked out exactly how

I’m genuinely obsessed with this one. Plum, lavender, and carnation pink paint, bubble wrap dipped in archival ink as an improvised stamp, and micron pen for the fine linework. I kept debating whether to add one more layer, but I ended up being glad I stopped, I actually love how it looks as is. Le

This collage imagines an entire farm submerged underwater, windmill, geese and all, with a scuba diver reaching down through the surface to pluck one of the geese. One of my favorite pieces to bring to life so far, it came out even better than I originally pictured. For the full process video, i

This one taught me that sometimes less is genuinely more, I kept applying the paint too thick and ended up hiding the drawing underneath more than once. Still happy with how it turned out though, and that’s the nature of learning something new, you figure out the balance by getting it wrong a few t

Today’s tiny truth. This one is less of a stated truth and more a genuine question I keep pondering, whether real change ever comes from adjusting something at the edges, or whether some things have to be completely dismantled first before anything better can be built in their place. Creative destr

This one’s about trading the ordinary for the extraordinary. Routine work happens below. Above, someone’s stepping out of their comfort zone entirely, and finding a reward more dazzling than anything money could buy. #collageart #creativity #artwork #artistsoflemon8 #paperart

Recently I heard Bowie say you should feel a little out of your depth creatively, that’s where the magic is. So I decided to try out acrylics. It looked kinda crappy at first when my pencil smudged after I sprayed the water, but I kept layering. Adding the pink was the moment I thought “wait, th

Today’s tiny truth. In a world full of constant noise and notifications, quiet has become both harder to find and more essential than ever. It’s not just rest, it’s where ideas emerge, where self-discovery happens, and where real peace of mind gets a chance to exist. #quietmoments #wordsofwis

The afterparty is on the moon and the dress code is still white dress + Coke. Prom Night on the Moon. Pt.5 of my Coca Cola ads in space series. He brought the Cokes, she brought the bouquet. Full journey so far: Galactic Lanes, Intergalactic Delivery Girl, Coke Comet Pool Party, Drive-In Neb

There’s a persistent myth that real creativity has to come from total isolation, some untouched, original genius pulling ideas out of nowhere. It’s never actually been true. Every artist is working inside a lineage, borrowing technique, symbol, and method from everyone who came before them, and mak

You’re allowed to ask questions about the future, even when people tell you not to worry. That kind of concern isn’t anxiety, it’s how the present gets examined closely enough to actually change course. A better future starts with honest questions about the one we’re currently building. #critic

A couple, their very large cat, and an afternoon spent playing piano outside a house straight out of a storybook. Sometimes a piece doesn’t need a deeper meaning, it just needs to feel this warm. #collageart #catlovers #creativity #artjournaling #cottagecore

Today’s tiny truth. Being friendly here isn’t an effort. There’s a specific feeling that comes from being around people who are naturally warm, fair, and easygoing. No competition, no tension, no performance, just genuine ease. Pledge of fairness, lucky, and effort, all words that landed together f

This one started with a window shape I loved and grew from there, hand-tinted panes, a woman caught mid-discovery, and a whole world quietly waiting just beneath the frame. #collageart #artwork #creativity #artjournaling #cottagecore

SALE. It’s easy. It’s inexpensive. You give more. That’s the trick of it, we’re convinced we’re getting a steal while still paying inflated prices dressed up as a discount. Consumerism doesn’t need to lie outright. It just needs good enough advertising to make price gouging feel like a gift. #c

He found a stick. Now he just needs someone to throw it, preferably someone braver than the family walking by. Jurassic Park’s calmer cousin, filmed here by someone who seems remarkably unbothered. #jurassicpark #creativity #funnyart #artworkoflemon8 #collageart