Art By Raealize

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  • The Sketchbook Project

    When I picked up this book – almost a year ago now! – I had no idea what I was getting myself into. And not that it had to be a big thing, but it turned into one. The Sketchbook Project, for those of you who don’t know, is an amazing collaborative, crowd-sourced art project Read more

  • The High Priestess

    My friend Bethany Jones is an amazing tarot reader – there have been a few crucial points during my time knowing her when her readings have helped me find clarity and peace – whether you believe that tarot is clairvoyant or just that it helps you look at whatever your situation from a new perspective. Read more

  • Blue Bird

    Not sure what kind of bird this was originally, but it’s blue now! Made out of this velum origami paper that I picked up somewhere. I love animals and nature, branches especially. This one’s simple, but I think I’m gonna look for a big tree scene for a future project. Read more

  • Centered and Open

    I’ve been making my way (albeit slowly) through The Artist’s Way, and it is such an incredible experience. It’s helped me become so much more in touch with myself and my instincts and energy, and certainly my creativity – highly, highly recommended to anyone even remotely interested! One of the tasks this week was to Read more

  • Girl in Shadows

    Wow, I’m so glad I decided to keep going with this piece! And I am so excited to start playing with shadow and depth going forward. The paper I used for the shadows – the gold horses on black – is one I got a while ago and have been waiting for the right moment Read more

  • Girl in Green

    Young Girl in Green has been one of my favorite paintings ever since I ended up with a fold-out poster of her from some French magazine when I was 11. A few years ago, my brother got me a 1000-piece puzzle of her that I spent the entire Sandy hurricane putting together. And recently I Read more

  • The Triptych

    Two things: 1) There’s that phenomenon whereby as soon as you learn a word you start hearing it everywhere. Well, the same day that I learned what a triptych was during my visit to the Cloisters, where there are many, I was asked to make a triptych of girls with guns 2) My friend was Read more

  • Ballerina Trio

    I love ballet, and watching stories come alive through beautiful movement. Also the incredible shapes the dancers make, and what they’re capable of doing – it looks unreal, especially when they’re paper cut-outs instead of photographs. To me, totally mesmerizing. Read more

  • Piece of my Heart Project

    I’ve been discovering the power art has to help process change. This project was about people with whom I went through a lot, and didn’t come out the other side, but who are still in my heart. I wanted to be able to let the heaviness of those past relationships go, and refocus my memories Read more

  • ARTemis

    My brother probably asked me for a portrait of his dog, Artemis, like a year ago, or even longer, and I just got it to him last week. It was an interesting project because dogs don’t wear clothes or have hair (or really they don’t have skin), and typically that’s what I use to differentiate Read more