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David and I have been working on a new portrait together. I love collaborating with David because he has strengths that I could never posses, and with our powers combined, we are Captain Planet! Or just really freakin’ awesome at arting. I have been sketching in my new moleskin book recently and I’ll be posting more artwork to bypass my bloggers-block.
By the way, those of you who wanted to participate in my scuba bee contest, you are breaking my heart. I’ll keep the contest going for a while longer to give you guys time, how about a month. I would really love to give my old paintings away, they do no good gathering dust in my garage.
Now for some art: My initial sketch for the portrait.
David’s perfect interpretation of my sketch into a flawless line drawing.
My coloring work, this is the part of a painting that makes my heart swell and sets everything right in the world.
Filed under: art influences, relationship, tina illustrates
20 Responses to “working portrait, water girl”
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stu Says:
do you have any idea how awesome it would be to own a piece of your work? I was going to enter the bee pic, but I’ve been a little busy with promo pieces and thinking about the CA Annual. If you have the time, could you check out my portfolio and let me know your opinion or Top 4 pieces you think I should consider for CA? I would really appreciat your input.
March 2nd, 2008 at 11:04 pm -
elysa Says:
remind me again why either if you have real jobs and don’t just sell custom artwork?
March 3rd, 2008 at 2:17 am -
Miss A Says:
wow. SO cool. And yes, an extension on the bee would be TERRIFIC (Since I forgot and this post reminded me as I would have been totally bummed if I had not submitted something!)
Go you. Oh, and David ;-)
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:43 am -
stu Says:
PS - tell David that I want to kill him for the lights and little building in the background alone…too talented.
March 3rd, 2008 at 7:08 am -
Tina Says:
Stu, sure! I’ll take a look at your portfolio.
Elysa, I would love to just paint all day, but it’s difficult finding enough clients that can afford my work for me to quit working as a designer. But, David and I have been doing more portraits recently, and we will soon launch our portrait studio site live. We hope that with the site we can do a lot more marketing which will develop into a lot more clients.
Miss A, I’m so excited to see your scuba bee!
March 3rd, 2008 at 10:23 am -
Froggy Says:
That is seriously beautiful. Can I hire you to come to Brooklyn and paint murals on my walls?
Oh wait, I rent… nevermind…
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:54 am -
Tina Says:
Froggy, that’s what paintings in frames are for! I think murals are really awesome though. The boyfriend doesn’t agree though, and won’t let me paint one on our walls.
March 3rd, 2008 at 1:25 pm -
ana Says:
You are so talented. And the collaboration most definitely ROCKS!!!
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:02 pm -
Pink Sun Drops Says:
Oh I’m such a bad, bad blogger friend. I left that comment about the boys entering and forgot to check back to see what you said! I’m printing out two right now!!
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:07 pm -
cdp Says:
You two are WAY too talented. Seriously, it’s a little scary.
March 4th, 2008 at 9:35 am -
Andrea Says:
WOW! That is incredible! Fab collaboration!
March 4th, 2008 at 10:00 am -
nico Says:
Please start selling your artwork so that I can give you money to encourage you to put out more art. :D
March 4th, 2008 at 12:02 pm -
Tina Says:
Ana, thanks!
PSD, I really can’t wait to see what they come up with.
cdp, you are too sweet!
Andrea, thanks, I like fab collabs!
nico, I do sell my work! (http://tinavaziri.com/blog/shop) Feel free to send money my way. lol
March 4th, 2008 at 12:40 pm -
nico Says:
Aha! Nice! I’ll get on it as soon as my next paycheck comes in. :)
March 4th, 2008 at 1:50 pm -
minnie Says:
i love it!
March 4th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
tree roots, kittehs and carp! -
Tina Says:
nico, woohoo :)
minnie, for a second I thought you had said “crap” lol
March 4th, 2008 at 11:01 pm -
michelle and the city Says:
seriously your photoshop skills amaze me. i think i need to take a training class for you sometime :)
March 5th, 2008 at 12:56 pm -
Tina Says:
Michelle, I would totally teach a class! I used to teach Photoshop and Illustrator in college, lol
March 5th, 2008 at 1:50 pm -
Z Says:
Love it! And those photoshop skills are amazing! WOW - I am in awe…
March 8th, 2008 at 1:35 pm -
blogging barbie Says:
you are so beyone talented. you never cease to amaze me.
March 10th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
