Vanessa Gillings
@vanessagillings
autistic author-illustrator 🌿 (she/her)
The second piece I made for Gallery Nucleus’ upcoming show Portraits of the Wildly Polite opening in LA this Saturday, August 22nd! #kidlitart #watercolor #gouache
The first of two pieces I made for Gallery Nucleus' upcoming show Portraits of the Wildly Polite opening in LA on August 22nd! #kitlitart #watercolor #gouache
You ever get a job offer that is just straight up INSULTING? You make work featuring + for neurodiverse kids -- ever think about using AI? Fuck off. (My official reply was nicer, but that's how I feel.) My work is now and forever will be made entirely by me. Here's some recent process shots
🐝🍯 #kidlitart #watercolor #gouache (with a few digital touch ups)
Two little watercolor and graphite warm ups from a few months ago #kidlitart #watercolor
Anyone else already dreaming of Autumn? 🍂 #kidlitart #watercolor #gouache
A little gift painting I made a few months ago for my dear friend Taryn -- happy Friday, friends! #kidlitart #watercolor #gouache
Thunderstorms, my favorite thing about summer #kidlitart #watercolor #gouache
A little warm up painting I did one or two washes at a time between deadlines last month #kidlitart #watercolor #gouache
Another piece from the summer of 2018, that’s still one of my favorites. I painted this while renting an apartment in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia and the background was inspired by an alleyway I lived about a mile from at the time. #kidlitart
Been going through some old art for a thing and I came across a few pieces I still like that I'd thought I'd reshare, starting with this one from my first solo show in 2018 (so long ago! 😭) #kidlitart
More recent-ish warm ups: some little what-I-wore mouse-fits (an idea my dear friend Taryn came up with that I absolutely adore). These are all gouache paintings that I touched up a bit digitally because the originals are only 2" tall #kidlitart
Interested in owning one of my original watercolor and gouache paintings? All of these pieces are still looking for homes at Nucleus Portland! 💛 www.nucleusportland.com/collections/...
Some fan arts I made for @whatsupbeanie.bsky.social AMAZING graphic novel My Sister the Werebeast! The cave is part of the story, but the dragons are my own silly invention because I was curious what creatures they might find down there and for some reason my brain thought...literary dragons?
After the rain watercolor and gouache [ #kidlitart #illustration #watercolor #gouache ]
@gallerynucleus.bsky.social is having a spring art sale! You can get 20% off with the code SPRING20 at checkout. The sale is April 21st - April 27th, so don’t miss your chance!
Something a little different today -- a digital experiment! When I first found out about my paint allergy, I gave digital a try by painting on top of one of my color roughs from my last solo show in procreate. I didn't enjoy it enough to produce my finals this way, but it was fun to play around!
Some little watercolor and ink sketches from a month or so ago that I finally got around to scanning today #kidlitart
@gallerynucleus.bsky.social is having a spring art sale! You can get 20% off with the code THANKS20 at checkout. The sale is April 21st - April 27th, so don't miss your chance!
I'm painting again! 🎉 So far it seems that wearing cotton gloves under nitrile plus long sleeves is working to curb my allergy, hooray! For now I'm painting a bunch of silly little things to retrain my hand to work while wearing gloves, but I'm getting better each day and I'm feeling hopeful! 💛