projects, artwork, etc. tanaka is a multi-disciplinary creative based & raised in the Bay Area, CA. currently spending their time tattooing, hosting workshops, painting, coding, sewing, & gardening.
LNY 2023 Dress-Up
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projects, artwork, etc. tanaka is a multi-disciplinary creative based & raised in the Bay Area, CA. currently spending their time tattooing, hosting workshops, painting, coding, sewing, & gardening.
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Stationary & Print Shop
life drawing
July 2024drawing session: bb figure drawing
model: hisse
medium: graphite, ink, posca marker
above: 20 m sessions
Below: 1, 2, and 5 m sessions
in a needlepunch workshop, you will learn how to use a punch needle on monkscloth to create a two-sided piece of art, finished as a wall-hanging artpiece, mini rug, or mini pillow!
lounging series prints
2022 - july 2024Series of illustrations from a life drawing session done in 2022 with 2bornot2b, redrawn and formatted for prints. Will later do a run of glicee prints, put happy with leaving it where it is now
shop the prints here
tokyo turnip
april 2024shop the gumroad
embroidery & fiber adventures
2024Recently I have been embroidering with more dedication, incorporating them into jewelry in place of jewels (i.e. rivoli settings and earrings)
above: two watermelon earrings embroidered with wire frame. persimmon embroidered necklace in rivoli setting
below: plant person embroidered on hand-sewn canvas pouch with vintage zipper, lined with japanese cotton
cat and embroidered on hand-sewn canvas pouch with vintage zipper, lined with black sateen
life drawing session highlights
2020-2023Sessions started in the pandemic, ranging from guoache, marker, ink, and ipad
femme flowers
2010 - present
An exploration of flowers and the feminine form. Ranging from themes of objectification and growth, early iterations involved plucking and violence, now they tend to strive towards the sun and celebration of the body
life painting
2014?Oil paintings done at SFSU over studio classes.
anthropomorphised food
2016-2021Concepting smiling strawberries, dumplings, onigiri, etc