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Art of Caitlin Ono

@drawingkit.bsky.social

Managed account. Artist based in Hawaiʻi. Upcoming Conventions: KatsuCon (Artist Alley #F8); Kawaii Kon; Planet Comicon Insta: instagram.com/drawingkit Etsy (on hiatus): caitlinono.etsy.com Day job: Studio Art Teacher @ Honolulu Museum of Art

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Art of Caitlin Ono @drawingkit.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

“Snowy White, Rosy Red, will you beat your lover dead?” #art #illustration #fairytale

An illustration of two girls, back-to-back, holding hands with blood dripping from their feet.

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Art of Caitlin Ono @drawingkit.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Mami Wata #art #illustration

An illustration of Mami Wata, a water spirit from Africa (tracing back to the 15th-20th centuries) in a style inspired by Gustav Klimt.

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Art of Caitlin Ono @drawingkit.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Mr. Miyazaki and Totoro. #art #illustration #studioghibli #totoro #トトロ

An illustration of Hayao Miyazaki, the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, standing in the rain, holding an umbrella, next to Totoro.

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Art of Caitlin Ono @drawingkit.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Tangles and tadpoles. #art #illustration #watercolor #ink #traditionalart

A watercolor and ink illustration of a girl with green hair in a white dress holding and surrounded by tadpoles.

Preliminary sketch for a watercolor and ink illustration of a girl with green hair in a white dress holding and surrounded by tadpoles.

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Art of Caitlin Ono @drawingkit.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

A woman to bring the dawn—may these soothing, pastel colors bring peace and light to your life. #art #illustration #graphite

An illustration of a woman dancing amid the clouds, bringing the dawn.

Preliminary black and white graphite illustration of a woman dancing amid the clouds, bringing the dawn.

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Art of Caitlin Ono @drawingkit.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

A memory from childhood: orchids and family. #art #illustration #sketch #graphite

Illustration of a young Asian girl standing in a garden of orchids with lizard friends.

Initial sketch of an illustration of a young Asian girl standing in a garden of orchids with lizard friends.

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Art of Caitlin Ono @drawingkit.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Welcoming the Year of the Snake. Happy Lunar New Year! #art #illustration #ink #watercolor

Ink and watercolor illustration of a girl with a snake and poppies

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Art of Caitlin Ono @drawingkit.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Tigers and bulldogs. #art #illustration #graphite #drawing

Black and white graphite illustration of a tiger watching over several bulldog puppies.

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Art of Caitlin Ono @drawingkit.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

“Ah” and “un”, the beginning and the end. #art #illustration #graphite #kitsune

Illustration of a woman(?) standing amidst a pair of guardian kitsune spirits, one with their mouth open (representing “ah” the beginning) and one with their mouth closed (representing “un” the ending).

Underlying black and white graphite drawing of a woman(?) standing amidst a pair of guardian kitsune spirits, one with their mouth open (representing “ah” the beginning) and one with their mouth closed (representing “un” the ending).

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Art of Caitlin Ono @drawingkit.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Whenever I'm Lost, I Return to the Sea. A dragon appears from the swirling depths, but this woman warrior is not afraid. #art #illustration #dragon

An illustration of an Asian woman with her glaive and a water dragon amidst the ocean.

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Art of Caitlin Ono @drawingkit.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

One day my Etsy shop will be open again, so if you’d like to watch it, check out caitlinono.etsy.com.

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CaitlinOno - Etsy

Shop Fantastical Print Illustrations by CaitlinOno located in Honolulu, Hawaii. Top shop for gifts. A buyer bought a gift from this shop and gave it a 5-star review!

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Art of Caitlin Ono @drawingkit.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Irises and axolotls. #art #illustration #ink #watercolor

An ink/water color illustration with irises and axolotls, and a girl walking among them, sitting on top of a sketch book and surrounded by art tools.

An ink/water color illustration with irises and axolotls, and a girl walking among them.

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Art of Caitlin Ono @drawingkit.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

“All is vanity, and remember you must die.”

a Sengoku period noblewoman with a gashadokuro, mixing Japanese lore with the Western art tradition of ‘vanitas’ and ‘memento mori.’ Young, beautiful, and dressed in opulent finery, she sits cradled in the arms of the large skeleton.

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Art of Caitlin Ono @drawingkit.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Tigers are auspicious in Japan, but they aren’t native. Inspired by Chinese scrolls and legends, traditional Japanese artists who’d never seen tigers used imagination to design “tigers”. Based on that, a young girl paints stripes onto a scowling beast surrounded by whimsically designed tigers(?).

A Japanese girl in a kimono paints a tiger, surrounded by tiger-esque creatures.

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Art of Caitlin Ono @drawingkit.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

"Till human voices wake us, and we drown." I dreamt of mermaids through the spring-- of princely, lady lovers and fairy tales of seafoam. #art #illustration #mermaid #mermaidart #fairytale #fantasyart #romanticart

A mermaid holding a princely lady knight amid seafoam.

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Art of Caitlin Ono @drawingkit.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The ʻakiapōlaʻau is one of Hawaiʻi’s endangered honeycreepers. #art #illustration

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Art of Caitlin Ono @drawingkit.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Testing out this.

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