Just a heads up that I'll be slightly missing in action the next two months- I'm gonna be in Italy; specifically Florence, Rome and Venice. I want to take a more classical approach towards art to see if I can improve, so I'm going to be studying from the masters. Those olden dudes and lady dudes knew what they were doing, and it's a shame a lot of artists don't look back and study from them... their views on anatomy, perspective, it's all so fascinating and apparently they were doing something right. Time to follow suit and improve on my techniques. After a month of doing that, I'm gonna chill in Bari and... continue doing art. So that's two months of Italy, sans partying. I'm so awesome like that. (/sarcasm) I'll log on whenever I gain access to the internet, but it will probably be sparse...

Saw Indy 4... and as a huge fan of Indiana Jones, Archeology and the paranormal, it gets fifty thumbs up from me. Heard lots of negative reviews saying it's not like the other Indy adventures, and yes, that's true. But, is that necessarily such a bad thing? I don't know, I really loved it and I wish I could see it one more time before I leave. Hopefully I can do some Indy art while I'm gone, too. Anyway, long story short, if you haven't seen the movie, go see it now, a couple of times. it's great. (:

My website will be up by the end of the night! Besides artwork which you can find here on dA, it's got my photography. Yeah, I also do photography on the side. It's nothing special, but definitely check it out-- TINABEE.NET ... [link]

It just so happens my paid account has expired. Damn. I'll remedy that when I return. See you guys soon! (:

Senior Illustration/Cartooning show @
380 Second Avenue at 22nd Street,
7th floor
New York, NY 10010-3994.

tues, may 6th 6-8pm.

I will have the following pieces in the show;
Posters and Screenplays [link]
Deserted [link]
Il Cane del Rutigliano [link]
I Regazzi del Rutigliano [link]
Nobody Ever Visited Him [link]
Live Long and Prosper [link] .

Stop by! It's free, there's refreshments, and lots of talented people in the show. : )

In other news, I'm so upset that I hadn't discovered printmaking earlier. I'm done with school, just waiting to graduate- and I've been testing out etching this past week. I made more prints of my Declan etching (this time I used aqua-tint and the prints look SO much cooler) but right now, the etching studios have closed until June- so that means I can't make any more etchings since I don't have a press, and I don't have aqua-tints. My close friends and I have decided that once we get back from Europe, we're just gonna pay the lab fee at SVA and work on etchings then. Why not? Looking foward to that...

until I graduate college. Insane. It feels like just yesterday when I had walked through the doors of the main building of SVA for my interview. Feels just like yesterday when Steph, James, Jisun and I all painted horribly in oils and spent 200+ hours on Gerndt's diptych and triptych projects, while running to Manhattan mall for cheap lunch and bailing out on super expensive Times Square restaurant checks. (Ok, that happened once- we aren't horrible people! Just poor art students, haha.) I coulda sworn it was yesterday when I took Soman's watercolor class for the first time in Sophomore year (and it was not the last, no no no.) and watched myself grow exponentially in just a one year span, and when I realized cartooning was NOT for me. So it was one year ago, almost exactly to this date when my artwork was showcased in the SVA galleries in Chelsea, for the great Junior Thesis show, and when I made fantastic acquaintances with my teachers who are now considered my peers. And shit, this year went by so fast, I seriously do feel like it was one day ago when I first stepped foot into my small little studio space with 26 other top Illustration majors, many of which I've become such cool friends with. I'll never forget wandering around on Halloween and then sprawling out on the freezing studio floor after the seventeenth wind... or casually dining in our little favorite hole-in-the-wall pizza spot a short distance from SVA at least twice a week (I'm not telling where it is. It's our little secret!). The crazy free Willy noises between me, Steph and Larissa and all our silly adventures- the intimate holes in the wall on Bowery St. while sipping hot coffee and watching gorgeous Brits strum away on their guitars as they spit on you while singing cuz you're that close (best night of my life, ooooof) followed by late night diner pit-stops followed by conversations about the paranormal and metaphysics before hitting the sack; more free willy noises (wehhhh) and ugh.

I'm gonna freakin' miss it. I wouldn't have turned down going to SVA for the world. It's been one huge amazing experience. One thing I sorta regret is not having taken a lot of oil painting classes... I'm just starting to get into it right now. But hey, other than that, the combination of teachers and friends and learning was just... yeah. Amazing. <3

Currently I've got three little projects going on at the moment... not that anyone cares, but sorry for the lack of updates, I guess? I've got the children's book, the Italy series of Bari, and a more recent project that I've been wanting to do for two years now. Here's a sample of it below. It's in oils, and so far it's an unfinished underpainting so I could get the values simplified for when I jump into color. (The right side is actually unfinished, the left is pretty finished. Eh.) It's really big on Gessoboard, and I'm soooo relaxed while doing this. Maybe it's the painting medium fumes. Who knows. Anyway... hope everyone's well. cheers!

x
tinabee.

Hey! Happy new year! I've been keeping myself super busy lately, working on my kid's book dummy and final sketches. I thought I'd upload some here in case anyone wanted to see what I'm working on. Hope you guys like!

This semester has been pretty intense! I've got a small studio space along with 15 or so other illustration majors in my grade. It's really inspiring to see how my peers are coming along with their portfolio pieces, and in the beginning, it sorta worried me- I'm taking the same amount of classes as they are, and spending just as much time as they are on my artwork, yet I feel as if I have nothing to show for it...

but then I realized, it may have something to do with the fact that I'm taking a children's book illustration class, and I'm diligently working on thumbnails, character studies, layout tests and an entire dummy booklet. And that is pretty freaking time consuming. So while I may not have amazing finished pieces like everyone else does this semester, that's normal considering the classes I'm taking. I'm up to the final part of my own written children's book (does this make me a writer, too?) which I'll start to create full-color illustrations for this winter break. That means if I bust my ass, I can have UP TO about 32 illustrations to use for a portfolio by the end of April. Of course, let's be realistic, I'll probably do one a week, and I've only got 15 weeks, so...

Except I'm a little crazy, and I decided for my portfolio class, instead of doing the assigned projects, my teacher is allowing me to make my own children's book. He actually encouraged me to do so, which is pretty awesome. Soooo now I've got two children's book dummies- one will have finished pieces, the other will be to show how I work step by step. This means I can begin showing my stuff to the bigger book publishing companies in NYC, in which i have some contacts at. I'm pretty excited, because there is possibility of getting published... : )

If anyone is curious, the style of my illustrations for my kids books will be exactly like my newest piece which you can find here, [link] (Watercolor on arches watercolor paper.)