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Sugarstar Studio
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Rhianna ✨ mother, feminist, anarchist ✨ mixed media artist
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Bees from my sketchbook 💙🐝 done with colored pencils and gouache #art #sketch
Gouache painting of a neon cuckoo bee, top down view. Colored pencil sketches of two bees, both with side views.
March 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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I recently made a dried gouache palette to experiment with, and I love it?? It takes a bit of effort to get opacity, but I love using gouache like watercolors!
#sketch #painting
A photo of a messy paint palette with dried gouache in half pans. Beside it are a paint brush and a sketch book page of a painting of a mossy angel statue in a field with grass, flowers, and rocks.
March 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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I want more wall art so I did a quick gouache painting of some daisies! I was going to add some ants around it but I think it would freak out my husband, so that might be a digital addition 🤭
#painting #gouache
A gouache painting of an oxeye daisy plant with sparkles around it.
March 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Quick digital concept for a biiiig (to me) painting I'm starting soon!
#wip #sketch
A digital sketch of a forest clearing with vines and flowers all around, with a statue of a pregnant angel in the middle. The statue is breaking and mossy, clearly neglected.
March 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Drew this last year when I was having a really hard time dealing with change. It's titled "For You, My Star". #art
A digital painting of a woman in space, hunched over, embracing a small galaxy. The background and the galaxy are fully rendered but she is only outlined. She has tears in her eyes and is covered in stretch marks and has a C-section scar. A representation of how motherhood causes permanent bodily changes and strips you of your sense of self for a while, until you learn to accept your new self.
February 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Yesterday I managed to spend an hour doodling some clover, lupine, and a quick concept thumbnail. It felt good to do something despite the brain fog. #sketch #watercolor
A sketchbook page of red clovers, purple lupine wildflowers, and a small thumbnail sketch of a statue hidden in a woodland clearing with vines as a border. The sketches are colored loosely with watercolor paints. A sketchbook page of red clovers, purple lupine wildflowers, and a small thumbnail sketch of a statue hidden in a woodland clearing with vines as a border. The sketches are colored loosely with watercolor paints.
February 26, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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A painting I made last summer, inspired by the asters in my garden. I can't wait to see the flowers and bees again!
#painting #garden #art
A digital painting of purple aster plants with bright yellow sunlight filtering through from the top left. The colors are pink, purples, blues, yellows, and greens. There are little stars in various colors hidden throughout the painting.
February 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Really struggling to finish this one. I love the colors and design, but I haven't been enjoying digital art lately at all! 😭 Still gonna try to get it done in the next week.
#wip #drawing
The mythological figure Lilith flying through the air. Her hair is bright iridescent flames with red, pink, purple, and green throughout. She has dark purple raven wings, hooves, and claws. She has dark skin with iridescent highlights, like an opal.
February 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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The scanner did an amazing job, all I had to do was get rid of the inevitable cat hairs. Here's a photo of the piece for reference!
February 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Jeanne 🪽 A very loose take on Jeanne d'Arc, done in watercolor and a bit of white gouache.
#watercolor #painting
An angelic figure with wings, fluffy, feathery hair, and plate armor adorned with feathers. The colors are mostly rainbow, with yellow surrounding her hands, which are holding glowing stars. She has a halo, and she is smiling kindly while looking at the stars. There are whispy white clouds near the bottom and top of the illustration.
February 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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We're getting there! I did my best to add shading while avoiding making anything look muddy.
#watercolor #wip
A work in progress watercolor painting of a woman with angel wings and feathered plate armor adorning her. The overall color scheme is pastel rainbow. She is holding something you can't see yet in her hands (it will be a star!)
February 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Painted my OC, Seren! I love her so much and it's been forever since I've made proper art of her. I'm so happy with how it came out 🧡 Started in gouache and finished digitally!
#gouache #oc #art
A mixed media painting of a light skinned woman with wavy medium-length orange/salmon hair and purple/salmon eyes. She is looking at the camera and smiling, with one shoulder raises and her arm crossing her torso. She is wearing a purple cape with gold trim and a bright white star brooch in the middle. The background is shades of pink with white stars.
February 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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First layer is on! This alone took me 40 minutes to do 🫣
#wip #watercolor
A work in progress watercolor painting of a woman with angel wings and feathered plate armor adorning her. The overall color scheme is pastel rainbow. She is holding something you can't see yet in her hands (it will be a star!)
February 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Bonus
A gray cat laying on a painting on a desk. She is stretching out a paw.
February 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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This is why I'm constantly picking fur out of my paintings. I'm not mad about it.
A gray cat laying on top of a work in progress painting on a desk. She looks very content and is very beautiful.
February 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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The Angel of Choice - wip
This is my attempt at something creepy! Did I do it? 🥲
#sketch #art
Screenshot of a work in progress art piece of a nude person with angel wings and a rabbit skull sitting down with pomegranates and rabbits all around her. She is stabbing into a pomegranate with a knife, symbolizing death of fertility.
February 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Video is up of me painting these cute lil bees! And also chatting about random stuff.
youtu.be/cBVXDvvlpSs?...
A thumbnail image of bee fairies from a previous illustration I shared. Text on the image says "Watercolor bee fairies! Sketchbook session."
February 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Another wip of a bird/angel/knight? I just wanted to draw lots of feathers!
#wip #sketch #art
An angelic bird-like woman with light plated armor and feathers all over her. She has large wings and long poofy hair. She is holding a star planet with orbiting stars around it, and gazing lovingly at it. Surrounding her are clouds with other star planets. Everything is pastel rainbow and very bright!
February 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Caupolicana (left) are named after a warrior from Chile, who led an army against conquistadors in the 1500s. They love mint and pea flowers!
The Habropoda laboriosa (right) specializes in blueberry flowers! They're also known as the southeastern blueberry bee 💙
A fairy based on the caupolicana bee A fairy based on the Habropoda bee
January 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Nomia (left) have opalescent bands, are usually solitary except for a few subspecies who share nests, and are really important in alfalfa pollination!
Bombus (right) are bumble bees! They don't make a lot of honey, but they have nests with a queen just like honey bees.
A fairy based off of the Nomia bee. A fairy based off of the bumble bee.
January 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Bee Fairies! Because I'm ready for spring already 🌸 Done in watercolor, then arranged digitally. I'll post them individually later!
#art #artsky #watercolor
Four bee fairies gathered around a bee balm flower. One is mostly black and yellow with green iridescent streaks, one is the typical "honey bee" coloring with browns and oranges and yellows, and cute brown poofy hair. One is pinks and purples, laying on top of blueberry flowers. The final bee is holding a smaller bee balm. She has black and white striped "leggings" and blonde hair/floofs all over.
January 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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The demon goddess, Lilith. Challenging myself with this one, and I love how it's looking!
#art #wip #sketch
The mythological figure Lilith flying through the air. Her hair is bright iridescent flames with red, pink, purple, and green throughout. She has dark purple raven wings, hooves, and claws. She has dark skin with iridescent highlights, like an opal.
January 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Quick concept sketches of my interpretation of Lilith. Don't make her mad (she's often mad)
Lilith flying through the air. She looks demonic, but has touches of angel in there. She has dragon-like claws.l and sharp horns on her head. She is nude. Close up of Lilith with a blank expression on her face. Lilith is angry! She is covered in black flames (it's just a pencil drawing though...) and has angry glowing white eyes.
January 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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January 24, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Painting an ice goddess ❄️
#gouache #oc
January 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM