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Ariel Ayres (she / her)

🎨 Internationally published artist with 600+ works
🛍️ Shop wares at Flower Fist Art Market
🎓 Instructor at The Artist Workshop

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All colors, identities, origins, and orientations are welcome here — you’re all works of art ✌️
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The Journey of Hope reception was phenomenal — thank you to Stop Stigma Sac for putting this incredible event together ♥️♥️♥️♥️

#stopstigmasac #sacramentoart #downtownsacramento #sacramento #california #journeyofhope
Ariel Ayres and Jamie Batiste posing beside “Sun Grove”, an acrylic on canvas painted by Ariel and inspired by Jamie’s powerful short story. “Sun Grove”, an acrylic on canvas painting featuring a woman reaching toward the sunlight and pulling off a mourning veil in a sunlit Grove of trees. Lily of the Valley flowers dot the grass. The artist’s signature is scrawled in white on the bottom left (Ariel Ayres ‘25) To the left of the painting is the title card, crediting the artist (Ariel Ayres) and the writer behind the short story that inspired the painting (Jamie Batiste).
October 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Thrilled to participate in Journey of Hope, presented by Sac County Division of Behavioral
Health Services

Honor real life stories of living with mental health challenges portrayed through art

3810 Broadway, Sacramento
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Exhibit: Oct. 10-12 & 17-19 @ 1-5 pm
Reception: Oct. 4 @ 1-3 pm
September 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Had so much fun with this lively, lovely group at our All American Summer Paint & Sip!

An extra big thanks to the generous staff at Brewsters Burgers for hosting us and providing food and drinks! 🍔✨

Link in bio 🔗

#lincolnca #auburnca #placer #placercounty #visitplacer #paintandsip
June 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Loved instructing an “Under the Stars” Paint Night for this sweet family! Everyone’s work came out great but the kiddos really took home the ribbon ✨🏕️

#theartistworkshop #arielayres #broomxbrush #lincolnca #downtownlincoln #placercounty #placer #sacramentoevents
June 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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“Under the Stars” Paint & Sip tonight at The Artist Workshop!

#placerca #camping #acrylicpainting #paintnsip #lincolnca
Acrylic painting of a campsite with an orange tent and bonfire in a field of grass at the edge of a forest of black pine trees. Purple mountains line the horizon in the distance under a sky full of stars. The instructor’s signature is scrawled on the bottom left corner in white paint.
June 18, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Stay safe and informed, follow @aclu.org

#NOKINGS
June 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Sounds gay, I’m in!

Really, I’ve got work showing in this awesome tattoo gallery — come celebrate diversity with us!

#sacramento #pridemonth #sacramentoart #queerart
Event flyer with a soft pink picnic blanket background, features an inflatable flamingo floaty and beach ball on either side of a purple picnic basket full of produce. Confetti is scattered around the image. Text reads: SACRED NINE TATTOO, STUDIO PRIDE ART SHOW FRIDAY, JUNE 6TH 2025 4PM-9PM AT SACRED NINE 8876 VINTAGE PARK DRIVE SUITE 109 SACRAMENTO, CA 95828
June 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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I was lucky enough to instruct this glow-in-the-dark Paint Night for a group of awesome, creative kiddos yesterday 🎨✨

Can’t wait for the next one! See @theartistworkshop on Facebook / Instagram for updates

#lincolnca #visitplacer #kidsclasses #summer #painting #paintnight
Brick and white walled room with Edison bulb overhead lights hanging over a marble countertop with black legs. A painting of a dolphin in a coral reef rests on an easel beside the table. Napkins, paint bottles, and other supplies are scattered on the table.
May 31, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Look at her 😍

“Ode to June”
4x4” oil
Ariel Ayres 2025

#oilpainting #summer #sacramento #queerart
May 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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I instructed a Paint n Sip last night on a farm, and let me tell you, there were *so* *many* *goats* — BABY goats

Find me at The Art Workshop in Lincoln 🎨🖌️

#lincolnca #placer #acrylicpainting #paintnight #paintnsip
May 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Get your copy of The Shallot Volume 4, Issue #1 ~ “The Elements” ~ today!

This one feels like a cotton candy daydream ☁️

Thank you to the Editor and creative team at The Layered Onion for all that you do, you’re all lovely, lovely human beings 🥰

Link in bio 🔗

#acrylicpainting #sacramentoartist
Photo of the artist (fair skin, red auburn hair) smiling, holding a magazine “The Shallot: Journal of mental health, art, and literature” with a painted monkey on the cover Photograph of page 45 of the magazine in the prior photo. On the top of the page is Ariel’s painting “First Light” with her headshot and bio to the right of the painting. Below is a poem titled “To Feel Alive” written by Alexa Priebe (she / they), with their bio and headshot to the right of the poem.
May 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Reminds me of days long past but not yet forgotten 😌

4x4” oil
Ariel Ayres

#oilpainting #vacation #sacramentoart
Photograph of a small painting over a dark blue background. The painting depicts an impressionist representation of a creek running through a misty forest in the afternoon. The water is dappled with shades of green, brown, yellow, and blue. Sunlight streams between the trees, highlighting patches of water and foliage.
May 21, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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I will be displaying work at Sacred Nine Tattoo this summer! So excited to celebrate the vibrance of our community 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

🌈 Friday June 6th 4pm-9pm
🌈 Sacred Nine Tattoo Studio
🌈 Queer art, tasty treats, and a gay ol’ time

#sacramento #sacramentopride #womanownedbusiness #queerfriendly #pridemonth2025
Top text: SACRED NINE TATTOO, STUDIO Center graphic: pink flamingo (left), purple picnic basket with a rainbow on the side and produce inside (center), and a beach ball (right) Bottom text: PRIDE ART SHOW FRIDAY, JUNE 6TH 2025 4PM-9PM AT SACRED NINE 8876 VINTAGE PARK DRIVE SUITE 109 SACRAMENTO, CA 95828 Background: soft pink checkered background resembling a classic picnic blanket
May 20, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Do a barrel roll (or something).

work in progress
8x8” oil
Ariel Ayres ‘25

#oilpainting #moonlight
Crooked photograph of a thick-canvas oil painting on an unbleached (tan) drop cloth, with tubes of paint and a paintbrush strewn about it. The painting depicts trees on a grassy lake shoreside under an exaggerated full moon. The moonlight glows on the rippling water.
May 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Haven’t been creating as much lately but here’s a sketch for my Journey of Hope (Stop Stigma Sac) assignment ✌️☀️🌳

#mentalhealth #sketch #love
Charcoal sketch of a figure stepping out of a frame over a vague background of trees and sunlight streaming down The artist’s scrawled notes surround the image
May 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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In progress and pissed about it 🙃

11x14” acrylic
Ariel Ayres 2025

#acrylicpainting #arttherapy #queerart
Photograph of a vertical canvas painting propped up on an easel with clutter in the background. The painting roughly depicts ripples in water (made up of shifting hues light blue, dark blue, pink, red, purple, and tan).
May 6, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Mark my words: the moment humanity lets its guard down, the geese will be on us like 🫰that🫰

Ariel Ayres 2014

#photography #animals
Photograph of a white-headed goose approaching the camera in a park by the lake.
April 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Remember that time I went to a spooky old house I found on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere? There were shockingly few chainsaw-wielding maniacs. 3/5 stars.

Ariel Ayres 2014

#photography #urbex
Black and white photograph of a dilapidated three-story manor complete with rotting wood, a deteriorating front porch, and a bay window.
April 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Anybody here play D&D or am I going to have to swindle you all into it by myself?

36x48” acrylic
Ariel Ayres 2024

#acrylicpainting #dnd
Close up of a painting. In the painting, a raven with a glowing red eye perches on a tree branch before a misty chasm. Winding behind the raven is a rough path with a small wagon with torches driving up the road toward a distant castle glowing with torchlight. More birds dot the uppermost towers of the castle. Image of the full painting - directly below the raven is the rest of the tree it perches on. At the base of the tree is a skull and a dirt road. Cut deep into the earth is a set of wheel-tracks from the wagon further up the road. Two street lamps glow with amber light and a rickety wood fence lines the road. The artist’s signature is scrawled on the bottom right corner in white.
April 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Ready to put myself in a basket and fly away — who’s in?

3x3” watercolor
Ariel Ayres 2024

#watercolor #hotairballoon #travel
Photo of a watercolor painting on a small square of paper resting on a teal sketchpad. The painting (top middle) is of a yellow hot air balloon flying through a sky of pink, purple, and blue clouds.
April 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Mark my words: I’ll shut right the hell up when the fascists do 🤷🏻‍♀️

Until then? 📢🖕

For the rest of you, here’s a skeleton celebrating trans joy, because I love trans people and trans joy makes the world a better place.

“Frolic”
4x4” acrylic
Ariel Ayres 2024

#acrylicpainting #dansemacabre
Small painting on an easel propped up on a log against a worn wooden fence. The painting has a black background with sunlight streaming in from the upper left. It depicts a skeleton wearing a blue sarong, a pink tank top with white fringe, and a pink beret. The skeleton is dancing in a pile of golden leaves, tossing handfuls of more leaves over its head and around its feet.
April 7, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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If this is your vibe, we should be friends 🎃👻

4x4” acrylic
Ariel Ayres 2023

#acrylicpainting #sacramento #halloween
Small painting featuring two sheet ghosts holding pumpkins in a pumpkin patch under a vibrant blue night sky peppered with stars.
March 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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I’ve been painting over the pages of a hardcover copy of a Bullshit Gaiman book. It was that or skipping a few month’s rent, obtaining a Passport to fly across the pond, and throwing it right at his mouth. This was quicker.

#acrylicpainting #booksky #catharsis
Woman holding a small hardcover book open. The book is painted with soft pink and peach tones. In the upper left hand corner, “Ariel’s Atelier” in black and copper lettering. The painting features a large body of water with gentle ripples. A paper boat floats on the left; a sailboat on the right; and a hot air balloon sails toward the setting sun at the center of the horizon line.
March 21, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Nightmares would be a lot more fun if all the antagonists were swapped out for power-hungry sheet ghosts with no motivation to actually follow through on terrorizing me for four to eight hours.

1.25x2” acrylic
Ariel Ayres 2024

#acrylicpainting #queerart #art
Ovular pendant with an antique frame style border, held in the artist’s hand (pale skin). The center of the pendant is a painting of a sheet ghost with arms stretched out in an ominous manner. The background is a red to black vignette. The artist’s signature is scrawled on the bottom left in white paint.
March 20, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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I like how lighthouses are seen as these beacons of hope when in actuality, they’re literally encircled by massive, jagged rocks. They’re warnings.

0.25x0.5” acrylic
Ariel Ayres 2024

#acrylicpainting #queerart #sacramento #california
Close-up of a tiny painted pendant balanced on the artist’s fingers. The painting depicts a lighthouse in a lightning storm. The artist’s signature is written on the bottom left of the lighthouse’s rocky base in white text.
March 20, 2025 at 2:09 AM