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Something I've wanted to paint for a while featuring my star-speckled, Sapphire Phoenix <33

Available as both a print and holographic sticker in my shop!

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Luscious phoenix pattern for this modern velvet haori by RumiRock, with a pattern placement somehow mimicking a hagoromo (feather mantle) draped on wearer's shoulders.

As always with velvet, pictures don't truly do it justice, you can have a look at this video to get a better idea. The jewel-colors must be so glorious irl!

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I wasn’t sure what I wanted the Kirin/Qilin companion piece to be. At first I thought a Pi Yao but after some thought I figured why not pair the lord of the beasts with the ruler of the skies aka the Fenghuang or Hou-ou or a plethora of other names depending on where in the world we are talking about. You’ll commonly see this creature referred to as the “Chinese Phoenix” although it’s not a good comparison technically since these two legendary birds don’t share much in common beyond a similar appearance. The Fenghuang is the marker of new eras, harbinger of good things, lord of birds, mortal enemy or companion to dragons.