Halaylah

@halaylah

Call me Hal. Artist, Bard, Budtender & Quizmaster Level 51, Agender (she/sí is fine) No alt text = No follow back 🇮🇪|🇵🇸|🏳️‍🌈|💗♾️💙 Halaylah.com Patreon.com/HalaylahStudios Currently unhoused. $ - V/PP/CA: all Halaylah

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Halaylah@halaylah· 22d

Breakin the Law

Photo of my knee & one shoe as I sit cross-legged on the sidewalk with a bottled Coke nearby. It is illegal in my city to sit on the sidewalk.

Halaylah@halaylah· 25d

Look, it's Godzilla!

Photo of a parking lot with trees around the perimeter. One of the trees has been trimmed to accommodate the electrical wires & it looks like Godzilla from where I'm sitting.

Closer view of the Godzilla tree. It is facing left, with a snout, rounded head, long neck, and a ridge along its spine. Its looks friendly, though.

Halaylah@halaylah· 29d

#NewMoon tonight!

Drawing of a farmhouse at nighttime under a gigantic sky with Northern lights and an oversized New Moon (which is also the name of the farm) a lazy wisp of smoke drifts up from the kitchen chimney, and behind the house are the silhouettes of three lombardy poplars. The night sky is filled with stars.

Halaylah@halaylah· Jul 14

My take on Madame Defarge #BastilleDay

Portrait of Madame Defarge from 'ATale Of Two Cities,' wearing a red cap with the tricolour cockade of the French Revolution. Her face is full of rage, and the background behind her is splattered with blood.

Halaylah@halaylah· Jul 9

Happening tonight in Old Town!

Small Batch Trivia, by Geeks Who Drink
El Vado Taproom
Thursdays at 6:00pm

Halaylah@halaylah· Jul 9

New laptop sticker

Photo of a black Dell laptop with a green, white, and orange KNEECAP sticker across the bottom.

The sticker is actually clear, so I had to paint part of my laptop white in order for the IRISH flag colors to be seen against the black.

Halaylah@halaylah· Jul 9

BEST STAR TREK CAPTAIN. WRONG ANSWERS ONLY

Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher - specifically, this image is from TNG s1:e2 when Wesley declared himself 'acting captain'

Halaylah@halaylah· Jul 8

Side A/Side B of a couple keychains that I left at Girard & Kathryn this morning. #FreeArt #EverydayArt #ArtSky

Front/back photo of a handmade keychain against a sandstone background. One side is denim with the New Mexico Zia symbol stitched in yellow, the other is red & black lumberjack plaid with a black 'Resist' fist in a white circle stamped on it.

All editing was done on my Samsung Galaxy 23, using ibisPaint. #NoAI

Front/back photo of a handmade keychain against a sandstone background. One side is denim with the New Mexico Zia symbol stitched in yellow/orange gradient thread, the other is red & black lumberjack plaid with a black 'Resist' fist in a white circle stamped on it.

All editing was done on my Samsung Galaxy 23, using ibisPaint. #NoAI

Photo of a keychain exchange board with the words "Albuquerkeychain Library' painted across the top. There are several keychains with long dangling red lanterns, a pink donut, a fuzzy yellow guy, and some other trinkets, and the two keychains that I made & just added.

Halaylah@halaylah· Jul 4

I'm up to "that" episode of #Buffy S2 - Passion. I hate watching this episode, but it's so good. The details are just exquisite.

Photo of me watching #Buffy on my iPad in the car while I sew. I am stitching with yellow thread on orange fabric with yellow polka dots. On the screen is Willow, seen through an empty aquarium, holding a string of dead tropical fish.

Halaylah@halaylah· Jul 4

Happy 'Yay, America!' Day.

Digital painting of a burning US flag, still on the flagpole, with lots of smoke & some sparks flying up.

Halaylah@halaylah· Jul 3

Side A . . . Side B #ArtSky #TextileArt #EverydayArt

A handmade key tag made from scrap fabrics, with a picture of Snoopy appliquéd in the center and Woodstock above him, both circled by colorful stitching and rainbow trim.

This is for my son, he calls his car Snoopy, and he had a different Snoopy keyring before that I also made him. But he lost his keys a couple weeks ago, so he asked me to make him another one.

The other side of the key tag is double-recycled sari silk from an old headwrap, printed in shades of lilac, orange, turquoise, and pale pink, topstiched in dark blue thread in a net-like sashiko pattern.

Halaylah@halaylah· Jul 2

Update #2:

Same watercolor doodle in greens and oranges, with the gold squiggles, now with the addition of two partial mandalas in black ink, a larger one filling space in the lower left part of the composition, and a smaller one in the top right.

Halaylah@halaylah· Jul 1

Update:

Same watercolor doodle as below, now with white detailing over the orange rectangles and gold squiggles over the top of the watercolor clouds.

Halaylah@halaylah· Jul 1

Here's what I did this morning while watching some truly terrible episodes from #Buffy S2 #ArtSky #watercolor #abstract

Photo of a watercolor doodle on a white sketchbook page, featuring two orange rectangles which form a stark contrast to the clouds of color all around them: greens and more orange and golden yellow, with some random patches of purple dots... all over the top of wandering, uneven pencil lines that I drew with my non-dominant hand holding the pencil between the 2nd & 3rd fingers, without looking, while watching John Ritter tell Buffy "beg to differ" before she kicked his ass down the stairs

Halaylah@halaylah· Jun 30

Post an 80s movie you will always love. Y'all already know mine.

Digital painting of John Cusack in Say Anything, with the boombox over his head & the Chevy Malibu behind him.

Halaylah@halaylah· Jun 28

I got crazy pants today!

Photo of my knees in the car. My pants are an eye-watering print of tropical leaves and random dots & stripes, in yellow, orange, turquoise, purple, fuscia, lime green, etc., etc...

Halaylah@halaylah· Jun 28

If you see this, post a haunted house.

Halaylah@halaylah· Jun 27

My mom's cross from Stratford-on-Avon when she went there in the 70s.

Photo of a celtic-design cross necklace with different stones set between intricate celtic knots done in metal (possibly silver?) The center stone is oval with red, green, and pale purple swirls. The top is green agate, left is jasper, bottom is jade, and right is turquoise, though it doesn't show well in the photo.

Halaylah@halaylah· Jun 27

Early morning Buffy rewatches are a longstanding tradition with me. This morning I watched the S2 Halloween episode and carved the backs of the eraser stamps from a few days ago. Now I have six swirly designs.

Photo of three pink erasers carved into stamps with random swirly spiral designs.

Halaylah@halaylah· Jun 24

Update #WorkInProgress #ArtSky #TextileArt

Updated photo of the fabric collage. The bright orange strip down the left side has now been stamped with swirly designs in an off-white color. That same off-white has been brushed lightly over the bottom right corner of the denim patch, and a hand giving a high-five has been stamped over it in black ink.

Halaylah@halaylah· Jun 24

What I'm working on today #WorkInProgress #TextileArt #ArtSky

Photo of a square of denim with the beginnings of a fabric collage: red & gold damask at the top with green tops tithing, red& green plaid below that, then rainbow and purple with pink topstitching in a big spiral. Down the left side is a strip of bright orange flannel with little polka dots. Arranged on top of the orange strip are three pink erasers that have been carved into stamps with random swirly shapes.

Halaylah@halaylah· Jun 23

Faking It. Gwynnie & Tilda deserve to shine.

My drawing of Tilda Goodnight from the book "Faking It." She is standing with arms folded in front of a checkerboard sky background, wearing a plaid button-down shirt and faded paint-stained jeans. She has short, curly dark hair and wire-rimmed glasses, and a slight smirk on her face.

Halaylah@halaylah· Jun 19

I found my little watercolor kit! First 3 colors:

Photo of a small watercolor painting in progress. All manner of swirls in a couple shades of purple and some yellow-orange.

Halaylah@halaylah· Jun 8

I broke the Law today.

A photo of my legs & feet with a black purse and a fountain drink, as I sit on the sidewalk to take a break.

Halaylah@halaylah· Jun 7

For Giles.

Photo of a pre-packaged 1.5g rosin-infused spiral tip blunt, in a strain called 'Vampire Slayer.'

Halaylah@halaylah· Jun 5

Giles' apartment remains one of my favorite fictional spaces. 💔

A stylized drawing of a door. It is divided into 18 squares with a kick plate at the bottom, and each square has a quatrefoil inside it. The whole door is a bronze/copper color, with varying degrees of patina. To the left of the door is a plant in a large planter and a small arched window.

This is Giles' front door from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Halaylah@halaylah· Jun 5

Not posting it on main because he grew up all trumpy, but...

An old publicity photo of Ricky Schroeder, circa 1984, sitting on the edge of a flowerbed, wearing a baggy sweater and rolled-up acid washed jeans, looking soulfully up into the lens. His little-kid signature is stamped in the upper left corner in white.

Halaylah@halaylah· Jun 4

The last one doesn't fit the prompt, it's just a bonus.

Two cats - a small black nonbinary one and a pleasantly plump, grey-and-white old lady one - in an apartment living room, looking through the sliding glass door at a long-legged neighboring calico cat outside.

small black cat and a calico cat, hanging out on either side of a sliding glass patio door.

A small black cat sitting in a windowsill next to sme potted baby succulents and a few crystals, looking out at the quiet residential street outside

A black cat in a windowsill, doing the classic Halloween black cat pose: back arched high, tail up, mouth wide open in a gigantic yawn.

Halaylah@halaylah· Jun 4

We got to play on the patio after all, but I had to speed things up a little at the end to finish ahead of the rain. 14 was *that close* but no Bingo.

Photo of a father & son sitting at an outdoor table on an overcast day. The son is 14, a tad gawky, with red hair and an exaggerated frown on his face. The dad, with a greying goatee, is leaning in with an exaggerated smile to compensate.

Halaylah@halaylah· Jun 3

Very important question: Am I in space 5 or space 7?