Leyna's Art Blog

Have you ever heard of the Lipstick effect? 

Basically, people claim that women buy more, or at least more high end cosmetics during an economic downturn.  

It’s been pretty thoroughly disproven, but the concept still catches the popular imagination.

And I think that’s because while some ascribe shadier motives to this supposed trend, something about the more innocent explanation for it makes a certain sense, even if the data…

There is a very sweet dog who has shown up in my yard 3 times in the past 48 hours. I'm familiar with this dog. He has visited several times before. …

Grief is purple. 

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I wasn't into the whole Alt/Grunge thing when it came around in the 90s.

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The cool thing about making art that's inspired by music is that I am always one web search away from discovering a new favorite song. 

As I create more themed collections of my art, I am provided with more and more opportunities to explore bands and singers I have overlooked in the past, sometimes with delightful results. 

And sometimes not. 

I am very much a creature of habit when it comes to my music. 

This makes a certain sense, in a way. Visually for me…

When do we become "real" artists?

This is a question even many long established artists sometimes struggle with. After all, it's not like the Blue Fairy is going to come tap us with her wand and declare us real. (On the upside, it also means she isn't going to come hex us for bopping little field mice on the head, but you probably shouldn't do that, anyway. Mice are, after all, an essential part of nature.)

But seeing as we lack any kind of official ceremony or…