I've been trying my hand at pop art style pieces lately and decided to make a banner for my site with it. So bye-bye stock photo! Hello pastel portraits!
Crushing Hip and Amy
This is a piece I sketched months ago intending to make into a physical painting, but never did. So now that I've thoroughly fallen in love with Procreate and digital painting, I decided to go ahead and create it digitally. The inspiration for this piece came from a dream. I can no longer remember the... Continue Reading →
Motivational Lettering
I tried something a little different this week with hand lettering designs to share on Instagram over the next few days. As a person living with mental illness I want to do my part in reminding others that who they are today is already worthy of love, care, and support. A person's value is not... Continue Reading →
In My Style
Instagram is always full of fun hashtag challenges for users to try, and the artist community is not exempt. Recently there has been the #DrawThisInYourStyle challenge wherein artists recreate other artists' works in their own style. I tried this with two pieces this week. Enjoy! With love, Alyssa
Color Me Satisfied!
Oh my goodness, you all! I got my iPad Pro and the Apple Pencil and downloaded Procreate and started having some fun with it and I made this for you using the symmetry feature! OH. MY. GOODNESS. I am in LOVE and hella excited (if you couldn't tell by my run-on sentence). This is just... Continue Reading →
Uncomfortable
Does it make you uncomfortable to digest this defective conception that we, with two flowers, stems, and one humble home for some potential someones ~flower children~ must collect the soft pillow they’d have laid their little heads on in a soppy, sloppy bandage, or else cork the very rite of passage they didn’t go through,... Continue Reading →
To A Young Girl
Listen closely, pretty girl, to these words. Others will lie and say they are not true and that you must focus your energy on keeping that pretty look. But that is a lie. You might think that you are less than the girl with blue eyes or blonde hair or clear skin or subtle curves... Continue Reading →
How Can I Convince Her?
I tell her how damaging diet culture is and how it makes us think we must shrink ourselves and deprive ourselves of so many good things, and she nods, agrees, then takes a bite out of her meal bar. I tell her eating less than 1500 calories a day can cause lasting harm to her... Continue Reading →
Ode to Intense Red-Blonde 6.66
To my scarlet letter strands, thank you for being the mane that can never be a rein allowing a man to guide me as he rides me in the wrong direction. Thank you for being the mane that slaps men in their red faces ashamed of the cat calls I confront. Bellowing out my siren... Continue Reading →
Not Just A Season
When I think of the possibility of you and me being just a season, of these falling leaves indicating impending winter, my tree's branches crack as it is simultaneously uprooted, and the hole left behind is a thoracic crater. The soil is rich with insect memories crawling in and out of my brain. Clicking legs... Continue Reading →
Aly Luna's Media Villa 