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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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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...

This Week...

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

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...

Let's Hang Out!

What? When? Where? Artist Reception! A fun, chill, and stimulating night! (hopefully because of the art, but mostly due to the coffee 😉)...

The Best Art Advice I Have Ever Received

So often great advice can go unappreciated. Words may or may not land depending on the ear they're spoken into. But leading by example is...

Why I'm Not on Social Media

Back in the early 2000s, everyone in our family got cell phones. We had flip phones first and then we all got the ones with the slide-out...

Sigils

A sigil is a painted or inscribed symbol that represents your intention, prayer, or hope for an outcome. It can be something you want to...

Flagpole Gallery

First off, happy Beltane! May you be graced with juicy creative energy and nutrient rich dandelions, violets, cleavers, and nettles this...

Arcana Ma

The works I'm sharing today are a part of my series called Arcana Ma. I won't share all of the work today but you can find more at my...

Why Do I Explore The Psychology of Motherhood in My Art?

The mother-child relationship is one of the most impactful on human society. Yet, the depth of the mothering role is often diminished and...

Studio Tour

Let's do a studio tour! I've always loved seeing inside the magic place where an artist creates! Honesty, I've always loved interiors and...

Sharing a Sliver of Personal Mythos

I am a self-taught artist. I really don't remember a time when I wasn't drawing. I am a chronic daydreamer, for better or worse. I have...

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