Leyna's Art Blog

It’s been a heavy week. I’m tired, my back’s sore, the world has managed to reach yet another new level of absurdity and it has left me feeling like I don’t have anything deep or profound to say this time around. …

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…