Andi Stern

@andistern

Multi media artist and mother of dragons (cats, dragons are cats) She/they 🇺🇦

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Andi Stern@andistern· Jul 12

This is great, I add shredded rotisserie chicken. It’s from Isa Chandra Moskowitz’ 29 Minute Vegan

Text reads “Edamame Slaw with Shittakes and Toasted Almonds”. There is a photo of the salad

A list of ingredients to make the edamame slaw and directions on how to put them together.

Andi Stern@andistern· Jun 27

Is there an option for alt text on our profile and banner?

A square collage on an orange background. Two women in early 1900 circus wear flank a platter with a red jello mold. A half moon rises from the bottom of the image, below the platter. A bowl of red fruits rises in front of the half moon. A pair of red and yellow starfish are at the top of the image. (Cropped image is the banner for my account, it shows the top of the women and the starfish)

Andi Stern@andistern· Mar 24

I picked up some Zig Clean Color brush pens and some Zig Mangaka fineliners from JetPens and made this drawing. I really like how the brush pens blend and cover the line work without smearing and it is very satisfying to make the cross hatch and dot details with the fineliners.

Andi Stern@andistern· Mar 12

New Steve Madden ad just dropped

A picture of Marco Rubio standing in a ballroom. wearing ridiculously oversized shoes

Andi Stern@andistern· Mar 1

Mama Kitty did a blep. #caturday

A brown and white tabby cat with green eyes is looking at the camera. The pink tip of her tongue is sticking out of her mouth.

Andi Stern@andistern· Nov 12

The pink is visible to the naked eye tonight.

The view of a magenta aurora that shifts to green toward the right. A bare tree is in the foreground

Andi Stern@andistern· Nov 11

Can you tell which side of the hill didn’t get sun today?

A hillside of trees in autumn oranges and reds. The right half of the hill is white with snow.

Andi Stern@andistern· Oct 7

I started this painting earlier this year but had only painted the cat and bird. I found it while sorting my works on paper and have been working on it off and on for about a week. It is gouache on hot press watercolor paper.

A gouache painting of an orange cat talking to a light blue bird that has a large orange pompadour. It is a night scene and the sky is two tones of blue with a light yellow moon. The foreground is a red under painting with a dark moss green on top.

Andi Stern@andistern· Sep 8

I’m trying to find the balance between “make progress on this embroidery” and “don’t hyperfocus so hard I end up with claw hands” and boy is it hard. #handembroidery #originalartwork (I am also salty that both JoAnn and my favorite small needlework shop have closed so I’m playing thread chicken )

A hand embroidered figure of a garden goddess. Her face is like the sun and the bottom of her figure is ocean waves. There are layers of earth surrounding her, and a sleeping beet is to her right. There is a layer of rocks between the two layers of dirt. The stitching on the dirt is in progress.

Andi Stern@andistern· Aug 20

My preorder of A Misfortune of Lake Monsters paperback arrived at my local indie yesterday and I picked it up today. I’m excited to read it! @nicolemwolverton.bsky.social

A copy of the paperback book “A Misfortune of Lake Monsters” by Nicole M Wolverton. The view is looking up from the bottom of the dark lake, with plant life silhouettes, the sun is shining at the top of the cover, with reflections in the water.

Andi Stern@andistern· Aug 18

My order from Vanness arrived today and this ink from Van Dieman is absolutely amazing. It’s Shooting Star from their Night set, and the label does say it is fountain pen ink, but I like how it lays down using my Kakimori nib #fountainpen

A row of horizontal thick lines showing the different colors in this shimmer ink. The colors range from a medium aqua to a dark royal blue. There is also gold and a little purple also visible.

Andi Stern@andistern· Jul 24

I don’t usually buy Brew Week merch (except for kegs for kitties fundraiser) but this year had a dragon and I have been all about the dragons since I was a little kid. And look, Ma, no braces!

A white woman with light brown pigtails. She is wearing sunglasses and a black t shirt with a green dragon done in the style of a woodcut on it
The text reads 20th Ohio at the top of the dragon picture.

Andi Stern@andistern· Jul 11

If I had a million dollars. I was working on this drawing when the idea for Wander Bread popped into my head

A watercolor of a red bird with a dark blue comb. Its wing is blue and the words “Kraft Dinner” are spelled out in yellow on the wing. The bird is surrounded by several pieces of macaroni and cheese. There is a pink triangle banner in the top of the image, with gold stars at the point of each triangle. A copper green urn is in the right front of the image. It has rust red stripes.

Andi Stern@andistern· Jul 11

Not all who wander are loafs. I was working on a different drawing when the idea for this dropped into my head.

A blue pencil drawing of a loaf of sliced bread with a face and three legs. It is wearing Mary Janes shoes. It’s walking on a path and there is an arrow sign pointing in the direction it is walking. The words above the scene say “Wander Bread”

Andi Stern@andistern· Jun 21

I drew this bird and fish vase on Thursday and colored it in yesterday. I love how these markers look like gouache.

A marker drawing of a fish vase and a bird. The fish vase is on the left. It is shades of mint green and has a pale coral belly. Its eye is golden yellow. It is full of flowers in shades of pink. The bird is on the right and facing toward the vase. It is teal with dark red dots, orange eyes and a pink beak. A gray rowboat fills its body. Above the bird, “Thursday” is written in rounded letters in shades of pink and orange. The date under the bird is June 19 2025

Andi Stern@andistern· Jun 21

“Thanks! It has pockets” I’ve been playing with paint markers in this incredible little sketchbook from www.pikarar.com/collections/... (they take almost everything without bleeding through and are very popular so they sell out within a few days every time she lists them)

My marker drawing of two birds. The bird on the left is pink with a pink ice cream wing and an ice cream cone body. It is looking at the bird on the right. The bird on the right is brown with a beige head and its wing is a pinstriped blue pocket with lacy loops on top. It is telling the other bird “Thanks! It has pockets”

Andi Stern@andistern· Jun 15

I don’t have a plan for him, I thought he was someone’s indoor/outdoor cat (he’s very fluffy and other than an injury on his face he is clean and was friendly) and this heel turn has me flipping out because we need to get mama and the babies in sooner than I was expecting to now

A large orange fluffy cat is in the foreground with his back turned to the camera because he is keeping the very small tabby cat in the background away from “his” food bowl

Andi Stern@andistern· Jun 5

I played with my pastel pencils today. Bruynzeel and Caran D’Ache are soft, Stabilo and Faber Castel are harder. I took notes so next time I start with the harder pencils before bringing in the softer pencils.

A pastel drawing of a red cartoon style bird with a blue beak. It shows the bird from the top of their head to their shoulders. They have blue eyes. The date (June 5, 2025) and my signature are along the bottom of the birds shoulders.

Andi Stern@andistern· May 19

Tales from my happy childhood

The spine of a book, the title is “Report from Iron Mountain” by Lewin. I couldn’t get the frame to crop so the background is a collage of a cat in a French striped pullover, with a red fish flying behind them. The foreground is a black Moleskine with a pink pen and a pair of scissors laying on top.

Andi Stern@andistern· May 12

Exhibit A

Andi Stern@andistern· May 9

Out For A Walk B*tch

People magazine article with image of the late Queen. Text reads: Queen Elizabeth's Final Diary Contained Only Five Words

Andi Stern@andistern· May 4

The rain has really brought all the leaves out on the tree covered hillsides. They are part of the Wayne National Forest in my corner of Ohio. I really hope this isn’t the last year I see them.

A tree covered hillside. The trees are full and green with spring leaves. A divided highway runs between the hills.

Andi Stern@andistern· Apr 26

Documenting the Wayne National Forest while it’s all still here. This is the welcome center. Back in 2018 I was commissioned to make small quilt wall hangings for awards given to people who had done good works for the forest.

The Wayne National Forest welcome center near Nelsonville Ohio. It is a brown building with a red roof and solar panels on part of the roof. It’s surrounded by trees.

Andi Stern@andistern· Apr 23

I needed to take a detour and pick up hand stitching again for a while. I had started this owl cat earlier this year but got tired of doing outline stitches on the wings. A friend had posted a mosaic stitched bear she was working on and that looked really fun so I decided to try that on my owl.

An owl cat stitched in patchwork colors woven with perle cotton and sashiko threads. The colors are autumn golds, rusts, and greens. The wings of the owl are graduated cream to light cocoa brown.

Andi Stern@andistern· Apr 20

We had the plague to close out March, and my spouse is an accountant and was busy with both quarter end and tax season. Today we finally got to visit Cora’s Curiosities in Columbus, where I found this wonderful cow pitcher. I’m excited to make a painting of her.

A ceramic pitcher in the shape of a cow’s head. The cow has a white patch over her eyes and down her nose. The rest of her is a warm brown. She is smiling and her tongue is pink. A ring of yellow flowers with brown centers circle her neck, which is the base of the pitcher.

Andi Stern@andistern· Apr 19

Taking pictures and documenting what the National forest looks like near my home this spring. I don’t know that the trees will be here for next spring.

A highway in southeast Ohio. The brown sign to the right reads “Entering Wayne National Forest”. There are tree covered hills surrounding the highway

Andi Stern@andistern· Apr 10

@redloribrighteyes.bsky.social sent me some of her wonderful paints in exchange for posting art I have made using them. The cheek and the hearts are where I used them on this painting. You can see the sparkle from different angles and in the closeup. They’re so much fun!

A watercolor of a crescent moon face looking to the left at a bluebonnet. Red hearts float around it. The hearts and the cheek of the moon are painted with glitter paint.

A closeup of the cheek and one heart showing the detail of the glitter paint

Andi Stern@andistern· Mar 31

This is my Gizmo when he was a wee bebeh three years ago. He’s much larger and even more fluffy now.

A tiny white and black kitten is holding a fuzzy blue worm toy in their front paws.

Andi Stern@andistern· Mar 29

share one of your comfort WESTERN movies (without saying Blazing Saddles)

A movie poster for the film Cat Ballou. A drawing of a blonde woman dressed in cowboy boots is bent over and looking between her legs at the viewer. She has a pistol in each hand. The title is surrounded by paintings of stills from the movie. The text reads “Cat Ballou is all ball! It’s that way out whopper of a funny western…a she-bang to end all she-bangs!”

Andi Stern@andistern· Mar 23

Fergus is enjoying his couch time with mom and dad.