Kiyah Shines Artworks

A painting from the perspective of a little spider in Wisconsin.... well it actually wasn't a little spider at all 😬
I painted this while listening to 's new album and it's been on repeat since. I want to make music like that someday.

Abstraction from last year. It gives me beach vibes
Acrylic painting on splined canvas.

Splined canvases feel so much stronger and more supportive than gallery wrapped or panels.

A portrait of someone special

I have not posted anything art related since September but I haven't stopped creating.

If you can't tell, life got a little busy 😅😭

I changed up a lot of my style and started to believe in my work a little more. I figured out more creativity without burning myself out, giving myself more room for experimentation and it's helping me with so much more than just art. Cake decorating is starting to make more sense and I'm having so much more patience with myself when working on improvement. It's been a lot but it's been good 😸😸

Featured Art of the Day: Aether Spaces - Kiyah Shines Art Available now for purchase. "Aether Spaces" is an abstract acrylic painting done while listening to a song. It is geometric and warm in color. The central circles are a dark pthalo blue, while the outer circles are a gradient of orange, red, and pink which lead to yellow and green circles.

Featured Art of the Day: Close Up Inspection Of Perfection - Kiyah Shines Art Available now for purchase. A close up of semi-abstract green and yellow highlighted leaves at the top of wide green stalks against a beige background.

Featured Art of the Day: The Root Of Perfection - Kiyah Shines Art Available now for purchase. This close up shows the roots of the abstract plants from my painting titled "No Such Perfection." They are mostly green and red orange with hints of yellow in front of a beige and white background.

Featured Art of the Day: Vast And Wild - Kiyah Shines Art Available now for purchase. This is a close up of my painting titled "Vast." It is a close up of the plant in front of the mountain and the sunset. Several brush strokes can be seen through the wide variety of colors

Featured Art of the Day: Moon's Favorite Flower - Kiyah Shines Art Available now for purchase. A close up of "The Moon's Favorite Daughter" with india ink splashes of pink, green, blue, orange, and gold. Light reflects off of each of those and shows vein like figures from the paint underneath. To me, this abstract area resembles flowers.

Featured Art of the Day: Moon's Favorite Puddle - Kiyah Shines Art Available now for purchase. A close up of "The Moon's Favorite Daughter" with india ink splashes of pink, green, blue, orange, and gold. Light reflects off of each of those and shows vein like figures from the paint underneath.

Featured Art of the Day: Cloud Storage - Kiyah Shines Art Available now for purchase. "Cloud Storage" is a close up from my painting titled "Vast." It features clouds swirled between blue and white behind a mountain peeking from the bottom left corner. Sunlit clouds colored yellow, white, and orange drift in front of the blue portion of the sky.

Featured Art of the Day: Origins - Kiyah Shines Art Available now for purchase. "Origins" is an acrylic semi-abstract finger painting with tones ranging from burgundy, red, yellow, green, and blue. It is a desert landscape that features four cacti and mountains in the background along with other brush foliage in the foreground. I painted it one night...

Featured Art of the Day: Vast - Kiyah Shines Art Available now for purchase. An acrylic painting of a vast mountainscape in an impressionist style with wide strokes. A red and black mountain with yellow sunlight reflecting on the right side. The yellow sunlight reaches up into the blue and floats between the clouds, searching for more to shine on....

Featured Art of the Day: Perspective Of My Youth - Kiyah Shines Art Available now for purchase. This was one of my first few artworks that I was extremely proud of. It features a yellow, orange, and red koi fish pushing up out of the water. Surrounding it are more multicolored fish ranging from a bright white to deep blue. The background reflects the sky and at the....

Featured Art of the Day: Ocean View - Kiyah Shines Art Available now for purchase. An acrylic painting of a burst of sunset over an ocean. The water is different tones of dark, light, and sky blue. It shines brightly with hints of sunset pink, olive green, and a sun yellow reflection. Abstract cliffs hang over the sides of the sunlight while yellow and....

Featured Art of the Day: The Moon's Favorite Daughter - Kiyah Shines Art Available now for purchase. This is a painting made out of multiple colors of india inks and white acrylic paint. It features a yellow and black moon in front of a pink, green, and orange sky. Below is an abstraction of green ink that many have interpreted as plants or a forest of trees. The forest....

Featured Art of the Day: Kicks - Metric Series - Kiyah Shines Art Available now for purchase. Close up of acrylic paint - it is predominantly purple and cream colored, with light blue in front of the background. The background is teal, yellow, and beige. The abstract strokes are mostly horizontal in the background, while strokes in the foreground are curved or sla...

Featured Art of the Day: Monstrous Heart - Nov. Series - Kiyah Shines Art Available now for purchase. This is a multicolored anatomical heart drawn in archival ink. The variety of colors used creates a mosaic-like energy around the smiling mouth full of vibrant sharp teeth, which guide your eyes up to the ventricles formed out of color and opening in different directions....

Featured Art of the Day: Freedom To Be - Kiyah Shines Art Available now for purchase. This is a drawing done in archival black ink of eight different jellyfish. There are four larger ones and four small moon jellyfish. Each of the four larger jellies was drawn in its own unique style for more of a dramatic movement effect: hatch, cross-hatch, stipple, and....

Featured Art of the Day: Growths - Nov. Series - Kiyah Shines Art Available now for purchase. (Sensitive content. Click to view.) A charcoal drawing of the back of a torso with flowers and vines growing out of the tailbone area. It represents change within yourself and how it eventually starts to show on the outside. The small flower and small vines show gradual c...

Featured Art of the Day: Creationism - Kiyah Shines Art Available now for purchase. This artwork depicts a colorful variety of Siamese fighting fish (also known as Betta fish) along with gentle jellyfish. It was made with india ink around a light wash of a fluid green and pink watercolor background, with six jellyfish along the lest side, and four betta....

Featured Art of the Day: Rings - Nov. Series - Kiyah Shines Art Available now for purchase. "Rings" is a charcoal drawing of a tree stump covered in mushrooms. The roots of the tree are very strong and shape themselves above ground. They surround a wide stump with numerous rings on top. It is covered by several mushrooms along the outer edge of the surface and t...

Featured Art of the Day: It's All In Your Head - Nov. Series - Kiyah Shines Art Available now for purchase. This is a charcoal drawing about anxiety. The concept came from one of my younger sisters but helped me to overcome and express a lot of anxiety I was having after getting into a really bad car accident. It depicts a brain drawn in high contrast with charcoal, with five v...

Featured Art of the Day: Planting Seeds Of Doubt - Kiyah Shines Art Available now for purchase. "Planting Seeds Of Doubt: Be Careful Of What You Speak & Hear" is a chalk pastel self-portrait. It depicts a small time period when I was feeling inadequate. This piece in about being conscious of the words that you let out as well as let in. I am depicted as a combinatio...

Featured Art of the Day: 5 Minutes - Kiyah Shines Art Available now for purchase. This artwork was created with strong warm, cool, and medium tones. It features a central human figure with no eyes, but has a nose, mouth, cheekbones, jaw, and neck to collarbones. On the top left side of the face in cool and medium tones of green and blue is another face...

Featured Art of the Day: A New Beginning - Nov. Series - Kiyah Shines Art Available now for purchase. This acrylic painting features a hummingbird as the main subject with teal and red violet tones in a few different shades for feathers. The hummingbird is facing towards a sunflower in front of grapes and below strawberries. This impression style of painting gives the art...

Featured Art of the Day: Armour - Kiyah Shines Art Available now for purchase. An abstract close up featuring red tones from brown, to red, light and deeper orange, pink, and yellow. Behind the sleeve of color is a blue background. The colors latch together and zig-zag from the top to the bottom.

Featured Art of the Day: No Such Perfection - Kiyah Shines Art Available now for purchase. This is an abstract acrylic painting of a cluster of plants. The leaves are pthalo green with yellow highlights, and in front of them is a flower shaped cluster of color made of blue and light mauve. I painted it this way and gave it that title because I was trying to pai...

Featured Art of the Day: Desert Dweller - Desert Collection - Kiyah Shines Art Available now for purchase. An acrylic painting of an Arizona desert featuring five different multico cacti, wildflowers, and mountains below a soft sunset. This fauvism style painting depicts barrel and saguaro cacti, with the main one being a light peach color, a yellow barrel cactus to the left,....