Smack (Inktober 5) - The Art of Nadia Vanilla

Inktober 2026, Day 5: “Smack.” Palicourea elata, better known as Hooker’s Lips: two glossy red bracts pressed together, ringed by cross-hatched leaves.

Inktober 2026, Day 5 (prompt: “Smack”)

Drawn digitally, printed on high-quality photo paper

4×6 matted to 5×7, 5×7 matted to 8×10, or 8×10 matted to 11×14

Acid-free mat, sleeved with backing board

Hand-embellished with paint or sparkle through October

Price range: $20.00 through $40.00

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Inktober 5: Hooker’s Lips is Day 5 of the Inktober 2026 series. The prompt was “Smack,” and this plant (Palicourea elata) arrived with the answer built in: a pair of bright red bracts that look like lips mid-kiss, with a cluster of tiny white blooms showing between them. They’re drawn glossy, with white highlights cut through dense cross-hatching, and surrounded by a ring of heavily veined leaves. The red is the only color on the page.

Drawn digitally, the piece exists as a print on high-quality photo paper, offered as a 4×6 matted to 5×7, a 5×7 matted to 8×10, or an 8×10 matted to 11×14. Each fits a standard frame and ships sleeved with a backing board.

Every print sold through October is hand-embellished with paint or sparkle, so no two are exactly alike.

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Size	8x10in, matted to 11x14in, 5x7in, matted to 8x10in, 4x6in, matted to 5x7in

Hey, quick note from Nadia here! The text in this product listing is created using AI.

I do NOT use AI in any creative works - not in any part of the Tarot deck, including the book and the Tarot section of this website. I do NOT use AI in things like my bio, artist statement, etc. I ONLY use my chatbot, under extremely close handling (no autopilot here!), for things inside the environment of the shop section of my website.

I do this so I can carry on with the business of making art, rather than trying to sell art. I very much hate AI, too, but I also know that my creative engine has almost been destroyed by the very hustle and added mental load required to keep that engine even operating.

Something had to give. I believe that you, the viewer who is reading this, will probably connect more with the art than with my shitty descriptions of it, so I'm delegating the descriptions to a bot, since it's mostly going to be a bot that crawls the text, anyway.

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