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Art by Dianita
@dianita.bsky.social
3.1K followers 1.5K following 360 posts
Mexican Fantasy artist. Traditional art.
https://www.artbydianita.com/shop
https://www.patreon.com/artbydianita
Links: https://www.artbydianita.com/links
Preorder the Unbridled Spirit Tarot (3/2025)
https://www.llewellyn.com/product.php?ean=9780738771663
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Friends, can you help us sharing ? One of my dearest friends in Mexico @piquipau.bsky.social broke her wrist & needs to have surgery asap. Expenses are piling up as the days pass & her ability to work has been diminished with this! (she makes plushies and patterns)

www.gofundme.com/f/help-piqui...
Screenshot of the image of a GoFundMe campaign benefiting my friend after breaking her wrist. Picture features many plushies that she has made, please help sharing or donate if you can spare a bit!
November 3, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Thank you so much to everyone who stopped by my table at @ixarts.bsky.social tonight! After freaking out that I couldn't set up faster, I had a great time talking with people, seeing their reactions and being able to hug more and more friends!

If you're here, see you tomorrow!
Cerberus pictured as a German Shepard jumping out of a well. With a snake tail.
October 25, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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I'm already in Reading, PA gearing up for tomorrow night! I'll join several incredible artists for the Evening Showcase at the DoubleTree from 8pm to 12am. During the day, I'll be walking around the Main Show visiting friends and watching their beautiful art from up close 🥰

If you find me, say hi!!
A girl with 2 wolves dissolving in smoke over tiles that are falling from a crumbling rock.
October 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Trying once more to return to the online world 🥲

Today, I share with you a piece that is now on Every Day Original:

"Stillness"
2.5in x 3.5in. Framed.
Graphite, pens and acrylics on illustration board.

everydayoriginal.com/product/stil...
Photo of a small drawing. A portrait of a female representing figure with a yellow unicorn horn on her forehead. Hair flowing around her. Blue butterflies. Photo of a small drawing. A portrait of a female representing figure with a yellow unicorn horn on her forehead. Hair flowing around her. Blue butterflies. Framed in a deep, black frame. A portrait of a female representing figure with a yellow unicorn horn on her forehead. Hair flowing around her. Blue butterflies.
September 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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At DragonCon's Art Show! After a messy start and probably horrifying my neighbor with the mess behind my table, I was able to set up through the day! Find me at table 91!

We're inside the Hyatt Regency Atlanta, and ask for the Art Show! (It's like a hidden spot, so please ask the staff!)
Selfie with my table at DragonCon DragonCon gallery show. My artwork in the gallery wall
August 30, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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I'm almost done with this memorial portrait 💜

It means a lot to me when someone approaches me to create a piece to remember their furry friends. It's a very special request, that hopefully will bring smiles and good memories even in their absence.

Acrylics on paper.

🥰
A progress photo of a portrait of a pony. It has a dark yellow fur coat and white hair. Behind there's a green pasture and blue sky.
August 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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"Becoming friends with ghosts"
11in x 14in Graphite, powder graphite, black ink on mixed media paper.

My offering today at @everydayoriginal.bsky.social ❤️

everydayoriginal.com/product/beco...

This ended up being about me letting my nightmare symptoms of adhd go free and use them in my favor 🥲
A graphite drawing with a girl sitting in the center. 2 ghost/spirit wolves are on each side of her. They're on top of a rock and cobblestones inspired in Rome's streets.
July 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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"The Moon"
Unbridled Spirit Tarot
Oils on Paper.2023

A favorite for Tina (writer) and I.🥰It has a horse and a creepy vibe, how could I not have it close to my heart?

Our deck features horses in human history (sports, work, folklore,etc)

www.llewellyn.com/product.php?...
(video shows the cards)
The Moon card that I illustrated for the Unbridled Spirit Tarot. Is a dark image of a moorland where a gray horse with long hair is looking at us. It's standing inside a water body surrounded by grass and fireflies. The moon shines on the back.
July 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Hi friends💜
I've been very disconnected from everything lately. I've also forgot that I finished 79 paintings for the Unbridled Spirit Tarot (2021-2023) and now that it's out, I don't have to hide them anymore!

I just made a listing for the Major Arcana prints🥰

www.artbydianita.com/shop/prints-...
An image with thumbnails of the Major Arcana from the Unbridled Spirit Tarot. Starting with The Fool and the last one in this image is Justice An image with thumbnails of the Major Arcana from the Unbridled Spirit Tarot. Hanged Man to The World
July 6, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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2nd day of Fan Expo Dallas!
If you're there, come visit me at the Artist Alley Booth A100!
A poster with a drawing of a girl and a horse. They're connected by their hair and mane with skulls and flowers dispersed.
May 31, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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"With fear, with love"
My new piece for @everydayoriginal.bsky.social !
Graphite, acrylics and color pencils on paper.
9 in x 12in approx. With mat: 11 in x 14 in.

everydayoriginal.com/product/with...
May 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Page of Cups for the Unbridled Spirit Tarot! (oils on paper)
3 days to release date!🥲

Seeing these paintings bring a mix of emotions. This one brings back so much happiness to my memory 🥰

Author: @truearrowtarot.bsky.social
For @llewellynbooks.bsky.social

www.llewellyn.com/product.php?...
May 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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The Unbridled Spirit Tarot deck is 7 days from release date! May 8th!

Author Tina T. Anderson @truearrowtarot.bsky.social Published by @llewellynbooks.bsky.social 🥰

This is the back of the cards. I created half of it (oils on paper) and mirrored it digitally.

www.llewellyn.com/product.php?...
A tarot card back. A horse's portrait mirrored vertically. It has pentacles, cups, swords and a branch of bougainvillea.
May 2, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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"Dreamer" is now on @everydayoriginal.bsky.social 🥰

Monarch butterflies found a place in my art to symbolize movement, transition and change. People leave everything in hopes to arrive to a place where they can have a calm present and hope for a future.

everydayoriginal.com/product/drea...
Close up of a pencil drawing of a Mexican child with braids and a crown of flowers and monarch butterflies pencil drawing of a Mexican child with braids and a crown of flowers and monarch butterflies pencil drawing of a Mexican child with braids and a crown of flowers and monarch butterflies
March 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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I just realized that @llewellynbooks.bsky.social has new photos of the Unbridled Spirit Tarot on their page.

I've been avoiding thinking about it much, but it's less than 2 months away and my anxiety is ending me 😭

Release date is now May 8th 💜

www.llewellyn.com/product.php?...
Product photo of the Unbridled Spirit Tarot kit showing the interior of the box, the book and some cards! Product photo of the Unbridled Spirit Tarot with the box, book and some of the cards
March 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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So excited to see my illustration featured in the poster of BIPOC Pop! We're in the Patton Hall building today and tomorrow 🥰

People have been the nicest, and it's wonderful to see friends from home and from the Dallas area too! Feels like a family reunion 🥰🥰
Photo of me with the poster Illustration that I made for BIPOC Pop. Photo of my set up.
March 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Art slump continues, but I keep trying. I've always wanted to try my hand at zines, today I sketched a couple but this one really made me feel great. These are 2 oc's that I created when I was in high school that I recently revised.

I've found lots of comfort reconnecting with my older ideas 💜
Photo of the screen of an ipad. With some doodles for a zine.
March 5, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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See you this week in Austin, TX for BIPOC Pop!

I illustrated this year's poster! I was inspired by the curiosity, passion, creativity and camaraderie of our communities projected into a future where tradition, comfort and innovation go hand in hand.🥰

Find us at UT Austin, Mar 6-8
www.bipocpop.org
March 4, 2025 at 2:08 AM
dianita.bsky.social
Learning how to draw with less noise in my mind is proving to be quite more difficult than I imagined (started adhd med past month).

This has been my only "finished" piece in 3 weeks. I used a nib pen (novelty!), Deleter black 4 ink on a small sketchbook.

I actually loved every second of this 😭
A Medusa portrait made with ink.
February 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Can't really put into words how exciting is for me to tell you that my piece "Wake up!" was selected for inclusion in Infected By Art 13! Thank you to the judges for choosing my work from all the gorgeous art that was submitted by incredible artists

This piece found a new home during IX Arts 2024🥰
An oil painting of a female representing figure in water, paralyzed. 3 skulls broke the background and are rushing to her.
February 14, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Hi friends!

My Advanced copy of the Unbridled Spirit Tarot arrived!

Written by Tina Tack Anderson and published by @llewellynbooks.bsky.social . The release date was moved to May 8th 🥲

Pre-orders:

www.llewellyn.com/product.php?...

B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unbridled-...
February 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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❤️Going to a new home❤️

"Reinvent" for @everydayoriginal.bsky.social

Pencils and metallic paint on paper. 8.825in x 12in

"I have hope, that someday we’ll build that right version of ourselves that will help to change the world.

Together."
A drawing of a female representing figure with tigers coming out of her hair. A skull is on the right bottom corner with smoke coming out of its eye sockets.
January 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Hi friends, thank you for your patience! I wanted to share with you that I saw one of my cards from the Unbridled Spirit Tarot included in 2026's Llewellyn's Tarot Calendar!

It's the couple riding a horse, 2 of cups 🥰

The actual deck will come out on March 8th!
llewellyn.com/product.php?...
The cover for Llewellyn's 2026 Tarot Calendar featuring 4 cards including one of mine. A couple riding a horse surrounded by flowering trees and bushes.
January 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Hi #PortfolioDay!

I'm Dianita, Mexican traditional artist currently based in TX. I do traditional work, which mostly includes cute animals and gorgons but I really also love to make art like this

I worked on the Unbridled Spirit Tarot coming on March 8th

www.artbydianita.com
dianitaarts@gmail.com
Oil painting of a lady stuck in water, paralyzed. Faces and hands try to grab her from around her. The background looks like a broken glass from where 3 skulls are coming at her. A black unicorn resting on eroded ground. Behind there's a dead tree and a fallen city with a menacing skull in the sky. An androgynous person with huge deer horns, blonde hair is being pulled by a monster made of bones. His right hand is shining. An awkward woman with lots of monsters eyes and faces coming out of her hair.
January 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
dianita.bsky.social
Congratulations on reaching so many people here! I adore that piece of yours 😭 Knowing that you also like horses, I choose this one of my own favorites to share it with you 🥰

Hopefully you'll be celebrating another 5k on top of these soon!
A white horse with galaxy wings flying over the sky.
December 18, 2024 at 1:43 AM