Nanna.

Mary lied.

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2018 has been a whirlwind year. Teaching post-grad courses at UCT, that continuous freelance hustle, growing my business with @artist.admin, podcasting with @badformpodcast, getting into a regular exercise regime with my personal Jane Fonda @fiance_knowles, planning a wedding with, and then marrying my forever main squeeze @ben_rausch, touring all over Japan with @alexeiexela and @jrelvis, honeymooning in Hakone and Tokyo, getting home to the anticipation of the very first @playtopia_fest, where @byjono caught this greasy haired, sleep-deprived mug. It’s been a year of collaboration and cultivating creative flow. Thanks everyone for sticking around and for your willingness to play with me 🥰 it’s been a very good year 😭🤯🥺🥳 #lastwords #newyear #2018🎉 (at Panorama Mediclinic) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsC2l69B7is/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ogfm7y6ifmyi

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Sunday pentimento painting WIP. Working over #marceldyf’s #claudine 🕸 #fineart #frenchimpressionism #impressionism https://www.instagram.com/p/BsA-v1VBWxL/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ctgmvu7zgo8g

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Graphix for the February @park_acoustics ❤️ I love working with @hempvdschyf. His brief: “Ek se altyd vir designers onthou hierdie is Pretoria, artwork moet appeal vir coolste underground music supporter maar ook dude met n pt broek en monster hemp” 🤣 #parkacoustics #livemusic #gigposter #gigart #babelien #ipadpro #digitalart #pretoria (at Voortreker Monument) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrsCzRTBr-7/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1iv51crklgbvv

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Throwback to my holiday project from last year. Fan art of my favourite instagram fashion and accessories idols @tuesdaybassen @valfre @bigbudpress and @ghostgoods 🌴 keen to do another series over my break. Anybody got ideas I can steal? 🤗 #igfashion #valfre #bigbud #ghostgoods #tuesdaybassen #illustration #illustrationart (at Observartory) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrMfBcRBkw2/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=8wayk0xppuzn

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I kind of love load-shedding. For those of you not familiar with the term, it’s a thing in South Africa where we take turns to not to have electricity for about 2 and a half hours of the day. It’s happened because our infrastructure has not been updated to carry demand...for both historical and political reasons. Anyways, it’s a thing. So today, a couple hours ago, the power went out. My data and battery life are low, so despite the work-panic-urges, I’ve been forced to plug out of stuff, find things I can do offline, and reflect back onto the real world. I’m busy cleaning my studio and find all the remnants of the last 6 months which have bullet-train-ed right past, every major milestone a race to the next. Graduation, Wedding, tour and honeymoon in Japan, @playtopia_fest. And now a forced moment of calm before the Christmas rush. I’m so grateful for my life and the people in it. For the ability to be creative and gaining value from the creativity of our community. Thanks loadshedding. If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is ❤️ And the power just came back on. #loadshedding (at Cape Town, Western Cape) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq7L77QhMib/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1h6l5jh527zrc

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Such a cool birthday. Got to work with @ben_rausch, @caitieweare, @richcutswoodcuts and #jbooty on a variety of exciting projects in the morning. Made a signal hill mission and lunch at the diviest bar with @kw.updates and @mirchmellow. Got back and made my friends hang out with me while I worked on my bootleg Dr Azumi. And spent the evening on the couch with my husband @ben_rausch. High fives to another year! And thanks for all the gifts and wishes. I feel very loved ❤️❤️❤️ #artvsartist #drazumifujita #fanart (at Cape Town, Western Cape) https://www.instagram.com/p/BquC8OhhZdG/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=d8tszecxzwo5

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Some of the original best buds are still available. I’m really surprised about the Jon Snow and Sam Tarly tbh. They’re all R750 a pop. Available on ye olde web store 👽 #illustration #bestbuds #art #originalart #fanart #GoT #terminator #simplelife #ghostworld #daria #daredevil (at Cape Town, Western Cape) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqpC1C2hRUZ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1qzhhzyvyhnub

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“Please could you do a special birthday portrait of the Sam Fam for her birthday, featuring @greenham_sam, Marty P, and her cat Digby, with an erotic Japanese octopus or tentacles somewhere in the background and anything else that says Sam to you. Maybe some hint of writing ambitions? A typewriter might be too obvious, but maybe flapping books in the background like birds?” - @laurenbeukes @simondingle and @shen.tian 🦑📚#eroticoctopus #tentacles #cutecats #nannacommish #illustration #commissionsopen (at Cape Town, Western Cape) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqeD8VzByvu/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=738f8ovlpd4p

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Gosh darnit! It’s impossible to find a decent set of cat themed Christmas decorations anywhere these days! BUT WAIT! What’s this?! My bestie @richcutswoodcuts and I meticulously made these hand painted cat Christmas decorations! We have exactly 8 sets of three that we’re selling for R250 per set. DM to purchase. 🎄🎄🎄 #christmasdecorations #catmas #xmas #catart #characterdesign #decorations #posca (at Cape Town, Western Cape) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqaDFm7Bvs9/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=14p4u46mz19z4

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“Hi Anja, I would love an anniversary portrait of my boyfriend and I. We have been dating for three years this September. We are moving to Madrid at the end of September, and I would love to put this in our apartment. Some Icon references: 1. Table Mountain: We met in Cape Town, so I feel this is important. 2. Pizza: Alvaro, my boyfriend loves NY Pizza Slice and will find any excuse to eat it. 3. Gardening: We have a small garden box with tomatoes, jalapenos and various veggies. He’s very particular about it and really enjoys potting around with the various plants. So some greenery would be cool. 4. I’m a filmmaker, so anything cliche icons related to that would be rad. 5. An aeroplane: My feeling is that our lives are going to involve a lot of travelling. 6. Koalas. I once made a meme comparing his face to a happy Koala (so corny, I know) but now we have a running joke about it. Many a WhatsApp message is ended with Koala emoticon. Personality/Dress-code references: 1. Alvaro’s stock standard outfit: A shirt, jeans, glasses and a beard. 2. My outfit: This varies, but I always wear my hair down.” - @gabriella_pinto_ 🐨🐨 #koala #nannacommish #commission #illustration #pentelbrushpen #comics #tablemountain #capetownartist (at Cape Town, Western Cape) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqXdTaaBSu4/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=jujl6odjluhd

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Hello! Today is the last day that you can book a commission for Christmas, or 2018 for that matter! After today, the next available delivery date is February 2018 🥂 thanks! 🥂 #commissionsopen #bat #illust #handtype #brushpen (at Cape Town, Western Cape) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqMR9fLhvbe/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=l74ditpmvoq9

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Collaborating with the angel face @richcutswoodcuts on some Christmas decorations!! So excited to give these little kitten shaped canvasses some snoots to boop 🎄 the first ones should hit the shop by Monday! 🤶🏽 #catshaped #kitten #christmasdecorations #lasercutting #makerspace #cutie #diy (at Cape Town, Western Cape) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqKlRVpB4Ph/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1c1tnuef5np1d

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squeeee! There’s an otter on my coffee table! Reverse glass painted otter on table made from our old pine bedframe by @hyrax_fabrication 💛 II’m going through a major yellow phase 📔✏️💛🚧🛵🧀☀️⭐️🌕🌻🐥🐤🐱🤚 #yellow #otter #otterillustration #kawaii #reverseglasspainting #graphicart #comicart #characterdesign #otterlove https://www.instagram.com/p/BqFSpiOBjCr/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=15vzdqlxnvs4j

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Sundays are for working on projects you started years ago. Like this reverse glass painting for the table in our lounge (made from our old bed, created by @hyrax_fabrication). Step 1 completed! 🏔 #otter #DIY #reverseglasspainting #decor #cuteanimals #characterdesign (at Cape Town, Western Cape) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqChU_WhRoa/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1xt5u3l3bhvs5

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A little while ago our homeslice @francokellerman came home with some profesh lights from a shoot. We cornered him and forced him to take these photos of us, for our @badformpodcast Ee-Pee-Kay 😎 thanks Frankels! Photos by @francokellerman, edit by me 👻💩🤡👽👹 #parttimemodels #podcasters #publicityshots #headshots #shotheads #profesh (at Cape Town, Western Cape) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp6gklOBXlr/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=b2f74atml3ci

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“I would love for you to capture our little family of 3 as a surprise for my girlfriend. We live in a small cottage in Harfield Village and are Cape Town obsessed. We have been together for 5 years and recently became puppy parents to our Jack Russell, Riley. Some of the things we love: – Swimming at Beta Beach – Coffee Missions + Market mornings – Travelling (we have traveled India, Sweden, Copenhagen, Hong Kong and Phillipines together) and love our Durban holidays to the Oyster Box – Flowers Flowers Flowers – anything plant orientated – We love adventuring in any form (swimming, hiking, walking, running) and general outdoors – Wine and Pink Gin All I want the photo to capture is our little family, so myself and Kirsten and then our little pup Riley between us and anything of the above could be cool to include! The black and white photo in the references is one of our favourites and the title references the James Bay song, ‘Wild Love’.” - @stacerehbock for @gerber_kirsten 🌵🌱🌳🌴 #nannacommish #art #capetownart #commissionsopen #brushpenart #pentel #comics (at Cape Town, Western Cape) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp3xdv4BqqV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1nym1osov1vg8

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More love and rockets inspired wrestling babes. ❤️🚀 #locas #hoppers13 #glow #anthromorphic #illustrationart #wrestling #brushpenart (at Cape Town, Western Cape) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bpi8nnrlxqX/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=131bt5cei2sv8