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working portrait, water girl | March 2, 2008

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.

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20 Responses to “working portrait, water girl”

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!