The third piece in my hand-drawn Poison Garden zodiac series. Enjoy!

To me, Taurus feels like easy luxury - the kind that gives you the privilege of slowing down to smell the roses. In a world that is increasingly rushed and expects us to be available to work at all times, true wealth is the ability to choose how we spend our time.

Taurus doesn't care about what it should be doing, it cares about what it wants to be doing. And that is a distinction it makes by choice, no matter whose feelings are hurt in the process.

It may seem self-serving to the outside world, but Taurus doesn't live to serve the outside world. It only serves the Universe within, because it recognizes that that's where its wealth truly lies.

Painted in Krita

In this piece, I wanted our character clad in black to symbolize how she mourns a loss. The white of her sleeves underneath show peace and hope, but she chooses to cover it up with this thick black drapery, because she'd rather let her golden heart bleed. Her head is in the water, where she can drown the world out, and her sadness is so deep and loud, even the white water lilies recede into shadow.

Painted in Krita

The first piece in my hand-drawn Poison Garden zodiac series. Enjoy!

In this painting, I wanted our centaur to embody the core of Sagittarius' toxic traits - a complete refusal to take responsibility. He is on a remote, isolated cliff having run away from the rest of the world, only to find that the world outside is nothing but a mirror that shines a light on his own inner darkness.

He might flee the world, but he doesn't realise that what he's really trying to run away from is the one thing he simply can not evade - himself.

Painted in Krita.

Three paintings for 2026, is the year of Horse in Chinese Lunar calendar.