WIP Wednesday 5.20.2026

Hey y'all! I had mentioned on Tiktok last week that I intended to start posting my WIPs (work(s) in progress) and explanations of them here from now on! I was doing them on there to have like--- a themed post day--- WIP Wednesday. Just to hold myself accountable and well... let's face it... simply to have something easy to post lmao. But I want to do it a little more formally and nicely here because I think it wouldn't be a bad idea to actually archive more of my process and the way I work pieces up from start to finish. Soooo.... let's dive in, huh? First thing's first... I'm still working on this guy:

A rainbow skull with an arrow through it. Acrylics, ink and collage.

I have NO IDEA where I'm trying to go with him, but I feel it in my BONES, dude, that he isn't quite done yet. I'm keeping a healthy distance from him while I try to figure it out. Hopefully by next weekish I have some idea on how to move forward with him, but for now he's just sitting on the drying rack. :') Next up, I just want to show you all this mood board again and explain it here because unless y'all actually follow me on the silly clock app you wouldn't have seen me talking about it last week:

Mood board featuring paramore lyrics, film grain, dogs and the book Night Bitch by Rachel Yoder.

We can talk about why I do mood boards in my early stages a different time, for right now all you need to know is that I basically take every single thread for a piece and shove it in one place when I do this. So, for me, this mood board is representing a piece I want to do that I feel like I have seen a lot of other artists also tackle--- the obligatory "I don't know why I bite..." piece. I'm envisioning something I know I've seen before, so I haven't made a ton of progress on this quite yet just because I'm still trying to figure out what exactly I'm aiming to do, and how far I'm able to push things before it strays too far away from my actual intention with the piece. (It's gonna ultimately be a nature vs. nurture type of thing.) The other mood board I posted last week was this guy:

A mood board featuring a dark background with bright, vibrant colors akin to flowers and butterfly wings scattered throughout.

It's inspired by my first ever visit to the Franklin Park Conservatory in Columbus. :) It's ultimately going to be a piece about the passage of time and the way things change, whether we are ready for them to or not. And I'm actually pretty stoked to let y'all know I did start a rough sketch for this... and I mean, like, a SUPER rough sketch:

It doesn't look like much now--- but that's the fun part. Hopefully by next Wednesday it'll look more like something real and less like a doodle, haha. That's all I've really got to show y'all this time around. I'm of course workshopping a few mini-zines and prints--- but that's like always and not really something I wanna delve into just yet. What are you guys working on? -Taya