Things I Made

My art & assorted inspiration. 💌 https://linktr.ee/tiahnaparis

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Commissions are open! These little doodles are originally post it note sized but can be resized massively thanks to the high quality 1200dpi scan you’ll receive. Great for profile pictures, gifts, supporting a small artist, or just a bit of fun.

Larger and further detail commissions are also open with pricing upon request!

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promise I do take inspiration from things other than this band... simultaneously fun and difficult leaving these portraits at different stages of rendering. It's like a little life cycle, even if I had to stop myself from just adding 'a little more detail' to everything.

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ODE TO PLASTIC SOY SAUCE FISH FOUND IN THE GUTTER 🐟

Something fun and frivolous among all my more time consuming projects. I love when inspiration, no matter how silly, just takes hold and won't leave until you exorcise it. Maybe I'll post some more (maybe more 'serious') poetry sometime.

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Good lord, that evil sure is dead!

My first ever gouache piece: bit of a learning curve with any new medium, but l've really enjoyed it! Ash Williams of Evil Dead fame. Black and white scan of painting also included in last pictures because I thought the scanner’s pointillism was cool.

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A silly poster I whipped up today. The idea of someone being like “oh, I love talking heads!” And you hitting them with the “woah, me too; do you have a favourite song?” And them being like “what? I was referring to when you can’t see the body of the person being interviewed” wriggled its way in and wouldn’t come out. Anyway, this is the result!

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FULL CIRCLE

Don't be afraid to take things a step further than "done"! My ideas love to snowball from a simple project to a multi-step movement.

This one was borne from a black and white scanning error, and re-evaluated into an opportunity for some digital design.

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🧡🩷 GROOVY BABY! 🩷🧡

This was my second ever foray into crochet and quite a bold project, both in color and scope. So, so many ends to weave in, and no set pattern for this one, though there are others online who have given recreating from the screen a go and who have been very helpful - see my Ko-Fi post (link in bio) for more details, including my attempt at writing it up.

Though definitely shagadelic, it's not perfect - l'd love to try blocking it to get some of the trim to sit with some more flounce but ran out of time before the event I wore it to. I may add a layer or two to the sleeves to make them more dramatically 60s flared, but for now, I'm thrilled!

I secured the dress to my shoulders with clutch fashion glue (not sponsored, just happy to have a product that works!) and it seemed to work a treat- can't wait to have a play with this some more, especially for temporary hemming and other fun textile work.

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A watercolour commission from 2022, lovely and soft with lots of light!

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Auld Lang Syne 🪩

Graphite on paper

Really loved using blackwings for the darker tones in this piece! They’re worth the hype in my opinion, so smooth and dark.

Partial time lapse included as well (I need to remember to document the process as well as the final product!)

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fishes and poorly censored personal info

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Byrne's Big Business: How a Simple Suit Stopped Making Sense and Became a Societal Symbol

(don't you just love a whimsical title?)

The whole piece is quite long as I wrote self-indulgently, so feel free to read the whole thing or skim through it a little. A flippable version as well as the full PDF with references are available at my Ko-Fi (access via link in bio).

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Stop Making Sense (1984)

I actually started this piece before the announcement, but since the cat’s well and truly out of the bag RE the upcoming A24 4K re-release of the film, there’s never been a better time to share. This drawing started out as a fun, pressure free side project, and eventually spawned an entire side foray you’ll see in the next posts!

I love the textures achieved here with the mixed medium- cardboard really lent itself to the otherworldly structure of the big suit, and the neon pencils provide great contrast to the industrial watercolour.

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Sometimes, you just can’t resist the urge to try it out yourself.

some outtakes, and their inspiration

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STOP MAKING SENSE

Stop Making Sense is a Talking Heads concert film directed by Jonathan Demme (you may know his some of his other work, including 3x Oscar winner Silence of the Lambs) featuring the debut of the Big Suit as a soon to be cultural institution spoofed and styled for decades to come. I love Talking Heads and their particular brand of New Wave absurdism is very much up my alley and a great source of inspiration.

These illustrations are available for purchase, either on merch at redbubble (link also in bio) or by DMing me for a digital copy! I have found some of the official merch to be lacking the creativity of the show it promotes, so the goals with this one were to make something as fun, loud, and loose as the music!

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Inspired by Talking Heads “The Big Country” & feelings of constant travel without an end to being lost

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I haven’t finished the Return so please so spoilers but give it up for my favourite benevolent ominous giant!

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SUNK COSTS, 8x10in oil on canvas board

this was my first time working with oil paints and so much fun, though lots of learning involved. Like any piece it was so hard to capture in photo, in part because it won’t be dry enough to varnish for at least another 6 months 😳

reference credit to the fantastic cinematography on Better Call Saul! This piece is largely the result of not being able to get this scene out my head since I saw it.

Full blog post about oils and this painting (with lots of WIP shots!) on my ko-fi (access via link tree in bio!)