Abigayle Rhodes

Just wrapped up a very special project!

I spent the last few weeks painting florals and painstakingly turning them into vector assets to use for my good friend’s wedding stationery. I love painting florals so this was so fun, and it was a perfect way for me to get familiar with Affinity’s new desktop software… but the best part was definitely her reaction. 🥰

I have a couple of ideas about what to do with the original paintings now that they’re no longer needed for their original use. I can’t wait to turn them into more beautiful things.

The sketchbook spread that prompted the lino block that took forever.

I may have gotten a little obsessed when I watched Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein adaptation, it’s one of my favourite books and Guillermo Del Toro is such a fantastic artist. Fun fact: I own three copies of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, scroll to see my favourite copy, in which the cover looks suspiciously like Jacob Elordi.

This was one of those little ideas I started thinking would be a quick side project but kept getting dragged out, either by thinking I had all the supplies but didn’t, or really dumb mistakes requiring that I start over.

Regardless, it’s done and I love it! A gold star to anyone who gets the reference. I do make an awful lot of fan art for someone who always says they don’t make fan art.

I can’t wait to use this block for more things. Next up, a fabric test! Who wants a print of this?

This time last week and I were in Montreal seeing !! This was the view from our lodgings.

We had 5 hours between check out and when our train left, and we were too tired to spend it any other way than loafing in the train station. A ton of time to whip out my sketchbook.

I usually feel weird about drawing in public because I’m ✨d e e p l y✨ uncomfortable by that kind of attention, so of course a woman had to come up and comment on what I was working on to really test my comfort zone.

My newest Substack post for my paid subscribers is less about the actual artwork in my collection "Grow Up", as it is about the collection's concepts, in a thinly veiled attempt to overcome my shame around "taking a break".

How does ADHD tax affect you?

You can read about it, and stay up to date on this project by clicking the Substack link in the linktree in my bio!

This is 30. Not too shabby, if I do say so myself.

Big shoutouts to all the people who made my party special, both near and far. It was a fantastic evening and I love you all so dearly.

Thank you to my in-laws for letting me host at their house, because there is a lot more space to fit snacks and a projector to watch Shrek on. Thank you to for being record keeper (because clearly Im bad at remembering to take pictures 😂) making an amazing birthday montage and using her magic powers to manifest Shrek and Donkey from the Shrek blind bags. Thank you to .soft.always of for the most incredible looking cookies and cake, and also GLUTEN FREE 🤤 Thank you to for escaping the dragon guarded tower with swamp pudding that I am currently eating for my birthday breakfast.

And because this is a crafty account and I know some of ya’ll are gonna ask:

Dress pattern is the Cowl Next Dress by , size 2x bust graded into a 4x waist and hip. Fabric is the silky sandwashed tencel from , of course. Belt is from .and.co. Boots are from VALUE VILLAGE (I know, I couldn’t believe it myself).

I love you all, here’s to making 30 the best decade yet 😘

I’m alive! I was in a three week time warp where everything moved both slow and fast and each day bled into the next, you know how it is.

Despite the creative slump I’m crawling my way out of I have been attending my CNC class at and having an absolute BLAST. Last week we plugged a couple of my illustrations into the laser cutter and engraved them on different materials! I can’t believe how well the pointillism translates, just looking at these makes my brain swim with possibilities.

I have no idea how I want to utilize this newfound technical skill but I know I want this in my repertoire, because, how cool do these look?! How would you want to see my art in this way? Jewellery? Keychains? Framed materials like this? Or some other way I haven’t thought of yet?! Let me know in the comments!

Before I went back to school (2021-2023) I had slowly started taking opportunities to be a vendor at various events, selling prints and stickers of my work as well as attempting to sell those same things online.

While I was in school I stopped working towards this and stopped developing commercial work for lack of time, but it’s something I’m very interested in doing again AFTER I’ve thought thoroughly about what I want that facet of my work to look like.

In the meantime, I have a TON of old stock taking up space in my office that I want to be rid of so I can start fresh. I have no idea what the best avenue is for me to sell off some of these old prints, and I would love to hear about your experiences with selling your work, however you find works best for you.

I know this may be a big ask, because some folks don’t like to give away their ✨ secrets ✨ but if you’d like to share, comment on this post or DM me! I would also appreciate you sharing with your other artists friends selling merch! I’d love to hear a lot of perspectives!

This is the piece that made me fall in love with acrylic painting again, it also has the best anecdote attached to it.

I painted this back in 2023, in my first semester of degree no.2 and it was part of a project in which we had to create a piece of art that represents a culture we’re apart of. This piece is 2’ x 3’, so almost life size, and it’s a nod to the Instagram account ***rnightstands , depicting my own q***r night stand.

As I was painting it I would send progress photos to my Bubbe and when it was done, she asked if she could have it. I said yes, without hesitation… before remembering that I painted a vi****or in the bottom drawer. It’s very subtle but I still got paranoid about giving my Bubbe a still life of my actual bedside table with a s*x toy sticking out of it. I asked my friends what I should do and all of them told me to lie about what it was if she ever asked, but I’m a horrible liar and felt bad. My mom then told me to tell her the truth about it, so I did. Scroll to read her response 😂

Anyway, it’s now in my Bubbe’s dining room.