Osiyo nigada! Hola todos! Hello everyone!Waahinhewin "Nay Nay" Williams (Cherokee/Mexican), also known as wawieli, is an Indigenous, neurodivergent, queer artist from the Pacific Northwest of the United States.She started her art journey as a young child in preschool with fingerpainting. Nay Nay started to pick up more skills when she was twelve to thirteen years old, following her cousins' footsteps in drawing anime and Pokémon characters through observation. She started taking art seriously at the end of her high school years and the beginning of community college through art classes.Nay Nay received an Associate's in Art in 2022. Her themes were simply, childhood nostalgia and trauma. She is currently in her Bachelor’s in Fine Arts in Studio Art, with a specific focus on Illustration. Nay Nay is rediscovering her themes again as she takes notes on what she likes and thinks about her inspirations in life and art.She would like to continue to a Master's in Fine Arts to become an art professor to start out. Nay Nay's eventual goal is to become a book illustrator for book covers or picture books.There is an email list that you can sign up for updates by clicking the "Email List" button below! Thank you for your interest!A lot has happened since you saw her last! Will she continue to improve her work? Find out next time on wawieli!Business Email: [email protected]

As an art student, I am in the process of re-discovering who I am as an artist and putting it into practice. Small steps at a time.After many experimental moments in my art in the last year, I started to write down my notes of inspiration again for both my life and my art. I have found that the common themes were "Colorful", "Joyful", "Wholesome", "Goofy", "Magical", and "Whimsical". I had many inspirations growing up, fitting these themes perfectly such as Studio Ghibli movies, Disney movies, Impressionism, cozy farming games, fantasy, stones, childhood imagination, and daydreaming. After these new, though familiar, discoveries, I will be putting them into practice.From the recent scare of A.I Art, I have recently gone back to the traditional mediums, such as colored pencils, graphic pencils, pens, and Copic markers. I do want to try out gouache paint as the next possible medium to my list. As an artist whose main medium is digital through programs like Procreate and Adobe Fresco, I have been making attempts to make my digital artwork look more "traditional."My reason for making art is to create a colorful, joyful, wholesome atmosphere to give myself and others a sense of cozy. A place to relax and breathe in the fresh air.