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I'm Tiana Traffas and I'm an artist. I created this blog as a way to share my work and update you on upcoming shows or markets. I'll fill this space with studio tours, personal stories, in progress works, new series, some mistakes, and flow state musings.

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Why You Should Buy Art from Working Artists

In honor of Small Buisness Saturday (Nov 26th) and Artist Sunday (The Sunday after Thanksgiving) lets shop small buisness and support...

Toys for Creative Kids

This is post 3 from the Artist/Mother Tips for Creative Kids Series. I am starting to realize that I have a bit of a series going here!...

Feminism and the Body in My Art

This is a transcript from a recent audio journal entry, although it has been edited because like, I can't stop saying "like." *forehead...

Handmade Velociraptor Costume!

Okay, I promised I would share my daughter's Halloween costume when I was done making it. She wanted to be a velociraptor. She loves...

Happy Halloween

"Autumn is my season, dear. It is, after all, the season of the soul." -- Virginia Woolf The leaves dance and float their way down to the...

How to Inspire Creativity in Kids

This is post 2 from the Artist/Mother Tips for Creative Kids Series. As an artist and mother, to one creative kid, I have learned these...

Studio Thoughts

• • • This week in the studio I've been marinating on some open calls, framing finished work, and making quick scribble sketches to...

Altar to the Soul Oracle

I created a free downloadable oracle deck for wayfindertarot.com in the fall of 2018. An oracle deck is similar to the Tarot as it is a...

Coloring Book

I am so excited to share my coloring book! I put a lot of hard work into it: researching, illustrating the old fashioned way (pen on...

Auric Forms

This series of works explores the intersections of sensuality, orgasm, feminism, and the body through soft sapphic images. Depicting...

Why I Wanted to Be an Artist

I've always been an artist. "Artist" was my first badge, my first label, and my first taste of a sense of identity. I can't really...

Children's Books for Creative Families

This is post 1 of the Artist/Mother Tips for Creative Kids Series. As an Artist-Mother, and avid reader, I have high standards when it...

Art Market

I am so excited to be a part of the Second Saturday Art Market this September 10th! Swing by to see me (and many other local artists)...

Mother & Child

Meditating on the mother and child. In family dynamics. In life. In art. In cultural perception. In grief. In love. Two portraits. One is...

This Week...

Getting inspired & doing markets. Sketching, dreaming, & commission work. Blasting my music and dancing in the studio while I work.

Tiana Traffas Art Pop-Up!

I'm going to do an art pop-up at Natty West! I will have work from the "Tea Drawings" series and I may even do some live drawing or...

What I'm Up to When I'm Not in the Studio

Creativity is like water. It ebbs and flows. Often my urge to make art comes out of intense bursts of inspiration. Sometimes I have...

This Week In & Out of the Studio

A quick round up of some recent inspirations, studio activity, and news! I have been sketching and making small works recently. Mostly in...

How to Get Inspired

We all struggle to do the things we love the most every once in a while. I find myself in creative slumps more often than I would like to...

Fantasia

I have been diving into childhood joy and finding inspiration despite grief. My Grandpa recently passed and I've been holding memories of...

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