#Tico Art

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

SLAPPING HAPPY FACES ON BUILDINGS -- A GENIUS IDEA IN AN UGLY WORLD

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on "Gussa," Costa Rican street artist's "smiley face" work, c. 2016. 📸: Naty Aguirre & Alberto Font for the Rich Times.

TICO TIMES: "Why did you choose a happy face as your image?"

GUSSA (street artist): "Actually, the face wasn’t going to be a face. At first I thought it would be some rectangles with awesome colors, but once I made the rectangles it was impossible not to make a happy face… The one located at Circunvalación [highway] en route to Escazú will always be the best one. When I try to do something that’s not a happy face, I always end up making the happy face. All artists have a line. It’s very hard not to continue with that line. It’s a happy face that varies: there are 3D faces made with cardboard."

TICO TIMES: "How do you choose your color palette?"

GUSSA: "The color palette is the most important part. It’s about the brightness that light gives to the color. After various years I’ve noticed that I end up using the same colors. They repeat themselves. I’ve always liked yellow. After studying it, I realized that it’s the color that reflects the most light, but it’s also the hardest one to cover. I also like blue and light blue because of how they reflect the light. The only color that represents something to me is pink, because it’s super stigmatized by society with the idea that it’s for women only. It’s important to me because of the anarchy [it can create]: I try to use it so that people are wrong when they emit an opinion about it. If you were told that yellow is a “woman’s color,” you would’ve thought that, because you were told so. That’s what happens when you don’t question things."

Source: https://ticotimes.net/2016/02/28/5-questions-for-a-costa-rican-street-artist-we-came-to-this-world-to-be-happy.

[camzi-p]

Costa Rica Hatsune Miku

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[children-of-the-force]

In a galaxy far, far away... on an alternate timeline. Following the events of Episode: VIII The Last Jedi

Coming... uhm. Good question.

[shyranno]

Happy belated birthday, Kelly Marie Tran! I love you always

Piece done for @forcefatalezine <3

[meetingyourmaker]

Rey and Rose Talking about Stuff

Just chilling and hanging around.

[lilibethdrawsreylo]

A modern GingerRose commission. General manager Hux is about to regret being so handsy. 😏

[coffeeecatss]

Happy Star Wars Day!

[marinersubmariner]

Sailor Moon screencap redraw as Star Wars feat. Ben and Rose

Reference under the cut

[erebusbored]

This movie's so good and for what.

[izachin]

Just Married 💍 #gingerrose #gingerrosefanart #hux #rose #StarWarsfanart

[keylimeart]

some valentines day sketches, for you,

[womeninfictionandirl]

Rose Tico by DrZime

[womenofswzine]

📡 TRANSMISSION INCOMING 📡

Kicking off our page art previews with @abreca 's stunning work of Rose Tico! Pre-Orders for Rebel, Rebel: Women of Star Wars open now until August 31st!

💥 ORDER HERE 💥

[askbensolo]

Happy Halloween, my dudes!

Meet Paige and Rose, my mom's usual go-to sitters for Rey.

"'Sitters?'" I laughed. "What are you—a loth-cat?"

"Well, they can't be my babysitters, because I'm not a baby!" Rey huffed.

...Anyway. Paige is my age. Rose is eighteen...and also? Weirdly obsessed with me.

"You're Ben Solo!" Rose said when she first laid eyes on me. "The Ben Solo!"

I get that often enough that I kinda like to milk it, just a little bit. I struck a cocky stance. "Yeah, that's me—son of Alderaan's last princess, nephew of the Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker—"

"—and author of Ask Ben Solo. I've read your entire blog. Four times."

Ooh. Oooooh.

Cringe.

Rose spent the entire night glued to my side, asking me questions about things that had happened in my teenage years that even I don't remember—but, hey! I finally found someone who wanted to listen to all 15,000 words of my KOR OC's tragic backstory!

Also—hi, Rose. Since I know now that you're probably reading this.

"Drop the lost Ask Ben Solo files, Ben! Please!"

"The—the what?"

"Your college memoirs! Your fans deserve to know everything that happened in those mysterious five years of silence!" Rose lowered her voice to a conspiratorial whisper. "Me. I'm 'your fans.'"

"Uhh...I'll consider it," I chuckled.

...I wonder how many of my anons were literally just Rose Tico.

Paige is much less social than her sister. I tried talking to her a couple of times, and it didn't really go anywhere—you ask Paige something, and she'll answer you with like five words and go silent again. She kinda has the quietness of someone who's been through hell...and, maybe, hasn't quite made it out yet.

Seems nice, though. And like a good big sister. She kept Rey (and Rose) (okay, fine, AND me) from running into traffic like, ten times.

Paige didn't wear a costume. Rose dressed up as Senator Jar-Jar Binks (and now that I'm a Nabooian citizen, I found that sort of...distasteful, but I chose not to comment on it).

I dressed up as my KOR character, Kylo Ren. He has a super-cool scar on his face that is totally not the result of a slippery-bathtub-shaving-accident. Also—he? And the Dark Lady Revan? Are so totally married and in love or whatever.

Not because I’m into that sap, of course. Just because I want Revan and Kylo to have insanely-overpowered evil Sith babies together. (REVLO FOREVER, I will not tolerate anti-Revlo hate on this blog, BYE.)

Rey, as promised, dressed up as Emperor Palpatine, and had a Force-lightning prop she had made out of cellu-board. "Goooood, gooooooood!" she cackled whenever someone filled her bucket with candy. Despite being a wiry little thirteen-year-old girl, the Palpatine character seemed to come really...naturally to her. Weird.

Well, Happy Halloween!! Rey and I are about to have a candy-eating contest—and I have to prove to her that I ain't boring now just because I got old.

[dark-london]

A kiss while captive. . .

“The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon but its echo lasts a great deal longer.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

|||| A little GingerRose after a long absence ||||. Working on posting more often.

[deathstardroid]

Alternate, festive rise of skywalker ending.