taylor rae works

she/her ♡ USF alum ♡ do not use or repost my art anywhere

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a little unfinished abandoned wip from either 2024 or 2025. i think 2025. most likely

can you tell i love drawing hair

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stupidly deleted the sketch of this drawing. but i've picked it back up lately- also stupidly decided to draw a MASSIVE amount of fabric for the background all the same color, which has been hard to finish- and can't wait to see it finished.

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haven't posted in a long time. posting got pushed off even further with how much bullshit there is going on. fuck ai art, fuck racist fucks, fuck misogyny, fuck every ounce of bullshit in this fuckn world.

anyways it's raining outside right now. here's a little sketch. what it would feel like to feel safe with a man or something. being queer and still somewhat attracted to men is pretty annoying. excuse the slightly awkward crop.

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taylor rae, 2023. graphite on paper.

while i was making this piece i thought a lot about coming from a place you grow out of as you get older. wanting to move away from surroundings that just don't fit you. even something as small as smoking a cigarette can feel like asserting your identity from time to time- something little your mom would give you a look for can feel like shedding old skin.

this desire doesn't come from a place of hatred and anger. just longing. feeling the distance from the things that would make you feel at home, and keeping the flame burning in order to lessen that distance.

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a currently untitled drawing i finished recently- i’ve really been wanting to experiment with dark backgrounds and some different lighting from a slightly off center front angle. ♡

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a current wip, haven’t decided on a title yet. i could go into all the little things i still wanna fix but i’m definitely guilty of using my posts to talk about all the bad i see in my work, so i’ll just leave it here.

i have a lot of thoughts about what this piece means that i’m not really able to articulate yet. an extremely talented professor i had at USF once said during a lecture, which luckily happened when i was having a lot of doubt about the things i make, that sometimes you’re not really sure what your artwork means until you’re making it. that was reassuring to hear during a time where i felt like every idea i had was meaningless, and i felt unmotivated to start pieces until i had a bigger plan for the meaning behind it. everything really lagged for a while. you just gotta give your work room to breathe before you put so much weight on it i’ve found.

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taylor rae, two of swords, fall 2022. clay, underglaze, glaze.

as i might have mentioned previously, the ceramics class i took this semester was printmaking-based. i had a wonderful professor i learned a lot about transfers (hand painted and screen printed) and relief printing/stamping onto clay from, and these bowls were done by hand-building the vessels and screen printing my design onto a thin paper, using slip to transfer it to the clay body. 

this piece touches on morality and feeling caught between being two different people at the same time.

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taylor rae, don’t go wasting your emotion, fall 2022. clay, underglaze.

my final project for my printmaking-based ceramics class this semester! i sculpted the head of a nun and kept the printing technique simple by getting a set of letter stamps. i decided to stamp down lyrics from “lay all your love on me” by abba across the veil. this sculpture is basically about being a hopeless romantic to the point love and the idea of love are like a religion, the main thing you really devote yourself to. though i still have plenty a ways to go with ceramics and sculpting, for a fourth attempt at sculpting a face, i’m pretty satisfied with the result. ♡

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YAY!! finally printed on a t shirt ♡ i started this so long ago and was originally going to make it a relief print, so glad i held onto it and turned it into a screenprint. hoping to do some more prints of this this week. so excited about the result!!

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fall semester started this past week, i have a couple of projects coming up and i just finished this drawing tonight, hoping to use it for one of them. we’ll see what happens ♡ thinking about titling it “two of swords.”

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some new nadja sketches!! still gotta watch tonight’s episode, but this season has been so good so far  ♡

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back with another drawing!! this one is so special to me (i say about a vampire covered in blood holding a heart). i have some bigger plans for this one, hoping to get at them soon!! in the meantime enjoy the finished drawing. ♥

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“i know the CIA would say, ‘what you hear is all hearsay’ ♡”

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a small lino i did in a few hours the other day ♡ i have some projects i’ve been working on for a while but i felt like just having something done. just some quick test prints, i need to get some better brayers and either run it through a press or get a baren

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about a year back i had a really quick flash of a nightmare that i haven’t been able to forget, so i decided to start a lino cut. i think i got it pretty accurate to what i saw in my dream, just stylized the linework a bit and added extra detail. hopefully i can get the plate finished soon, i really wanna see how the final cut looks  ☽

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so that's what happens when you put wayyyy too much glaze at the bottom of a mug you're trying to reglaze ...

not gonna lie, i actually really like it ☆

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taylor rae, dream body, spring 2022. clay, glaze, fabric, beads, metal wire, chain, lace.

for the final project in my beginning ceramics class, we were asked to create a piece discussing the human body. something i’ve been focusing on a lot in my recent work is sexuality- particularly what i learned about sex and sexuality growing up, and the negative things that i internalized. this piece is about feeling sexualized existing as a woman, and how if i had my “dream body,” i’d be able to take off organs and body parts that feed into that anxiety. ultimately this work is about intrusive thoughts and feeling exhausted from them.

the piece ended up being quite a bit smaller than i originally intended, and i left off the entire headpiece i sculpted, but ultimately i really like how the pieces of the body i left off make the piece very focused on the torso. i still have a ways to go in terms of craftsmanship in ceramics, but it’s a medium that i’m definitely very happy to be learning. different mediums are great for expressing different ideas, and so it’s nice to have something so new to learn about. i still love the more two-dimensional drawing, printmaking, and painting. but it’s been great learning some new three-dimensional skills.