KENBABE (certified scissor sister)

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She/her + He/him 🏳️‍⚧️🤙👌 HTX lesbian portrait artist

A photo of a drawing board upon which lay an xacto blade, a blue Crayola art stick, the Derwent inktense paint palette, and a collaged page upon which an in progress study of A'ja Wilson is painted.
Kendall is sitting on a couch holding an open book and bookmark over her chest. He is wearing his custom "ken" baseball cap (that he painted in a Michael's parking lot), rose-tinted heart-shaped glasses, and a large peach t-shirt. The book is a paperback library book titled "Alien Clay" by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Her bookmark is blue and reads "I HAVE NO SHELF CONTROL" in bold font.
Kendall stands in a June green garden with lots of red Turk's cap with a wooden fence behind her. She is wearing a printed short-sleeve button shirt open over a mustard yellow t-shirt, a long, sequined black skirt, a black leather fanny pack, and Jordan's.
A mirror selfie of Kendall, a white person with short hair, wearing an orange crop tank and huge basketball shorts printed with Cartoon Network characters
Kendall is wearing pink glasses, a hat, and a black shirt with an open crop top over it printed with green alien heads. She is sitting on a lounge chair outside with Lily in frame behind her. Lily is an adorable black weiner dog with just a bit of gray on her muzzle. She is the star of the show.
A selfie of Ken pouting with glossy pink lips and accentuated eyebrows. She is not wearing glasses for once!
A photo of Lydia and Lily looking at each other outside by a pool. Lydia (left) is a white person with curly brown and dyed-orange hair wearing glasses and a cute crochet crop tank and gray cuffed jeans. Lily (right) is a small black dog.
A photo of Ken legs and Lydia crocheting
Ken lies back on a white pillow holding up a red paperback book entitled Demons of Eminence by Joshua Escobar, a novel
A black colored pencil line drawing of Katya, sitting on a window seat with two windows behind them. There is a stack of books with an ashtray, joint, and potted Pothos plant on the windowsill to their left. They also, bizarrely, have three hands: two clasped in front, and another resting on their left knee.
This is a photo taken in Kendall's childhood home's kitchen, which explains both the wretched overhead lighting and the backdrop of a sage green painted wall behind her along which reside a few recycling bins, brooms, and warm brown shaker pantry cabinets. Kendall is making a face that is best described as bearing her teeth. He looks slightly hunched and in the process of lunging at the camera. She's wearing a deep v-neck t-shirt with multicolored stripes broken up with bars of white. On her face, he has rubbed black eyeshadow over her brows, under her eyes, and in one vertical stripe from bridge of his nose up her forehead. Kendall's hair, which at that time was ginger red and long, is styled in a ponytail flipped up and over her head hanging down like messy short bangs. I'm pretty sure he's wearing a few strips of 8mm home movie film from the 1960s wrapped around the middle of her forehead, securing into place a pair of flat foam slippers from a nail salon onto the sides of her head, extending out from her ears like wings.
Ken stands in a brilliantly lit spring park. The trees are newly green and the sky is stunningly blue. Kendall poses with a big smile on his face, holding a can of C&C orange soda up into frame in a hand that also clutches a white plastic bag filled (just out of frame) with a box of falafel over rice. Here, Ken has a similar hairstyle, with the same dramatic bleached-blonde side part, but the cut is much less severe and awkward, and the dye job is better. Her statement glasses from this era were Iris Apfel pastel rainbow-splotched heart-shaped plastic frames. He's also wearing a lavender ribbon tied in a bow around her neck and skewed jauntily to the side. An acid-washed, light denim jacket over a magenta shirt printed with an 80s band logo in white completes the look.
A blurry selfie of Kendall, a white person with an objectively bad asymmetrical bleached-blonde haircut with long inches of dirty blonde roots, featuring a severe side part. It's a nightmare. Ken is wearing a pair of reflective magenta sunglasses, or visor, almost, as the reflective lenses connect over the bridge of the nose into one large lens. They're goofy. He's also wearing a geode in a cheap gold-colored pendant necklace over a t-shirt. On her peace sign hand gesture from the corner of the frame, she wears a copper ring on his index finger. On the wall behind him over her left shoulder hang two KENBABE original paintings.
Ken is a white person with a short, messy purple hairstyle, paired with a pair of pink plastic eyeglasses, a coat of plum-colored lip gloss, and a lilac ribbon tied in a rather ostentatious bow around her neck. He is also wearing a black graphic tank top that says "BELIEVE" in a retro design. Through the open doorway behind her, there is a crowded bookshelf to the left and a couple original KENBABE paintings hanging on the wall.
A red paperback book with minimalist cover design that reads: JOSHUA ESCOBAR DEMONS OF EMINENCE A NOVEL THE FELLOW TRAVELERS SERIES
pj evans @pjayevans Cars have windows and can move. Houses have window and can't move. So It's not the windows that make the car go, It's something else entirely
2 cigarette cases on a crochet afghan. The left has a pinup of a topless woman with black hair smelling a rose. The left has a picture of a black cat with a box of cigarettes in front of him. "Black Cat Pure Matured Virginia Cigarettes."
Kendall, a white person with shaggy mauve hair, stands hands on hips in a pizza restaurant. He is cheesin' and beamin' hard. She is wearing her heart-shaped rose-tinted glasses, a gold heart locker, a Star Pizza shirt, black pants, and a server apron printed with slices of pizza.
A photo of Ken and Lydia smiling for the camera. Ken is on the left, wearing a denim jacket, pink neck bow, red shirt, heart-shaped rose-tinted glasses, and pink lipstick. She is cheesin' hard. Lydia, on the right, is smiling comparatively more demurely and is wearing a black shirt with cute round glasses and the same lipstick as Ken (bc of smooching :))
This is a drawing of Skylar Diggins-Smith standing in profile, wearing a white tank, white sneakers, tube socks, and Storm green and gold shorts. It's drawn in colored pencil and pastel pencil on toned Art Again paper. The drawing is signed and dated KENBABE '25.
A drawing of Angel Reese, dressed in a slick oversized suit and white headphones, dribbling and looking stone cold sick af while doing so. The drawing is done in colored pencil with burnt sienna, burnt umber, goldenrod, yellow, orange, and indigo. The drawing is signed and dated KENBABE '25.