Art By Raealize

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  • 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

  • Body vs. Clothes

    Both of the original photos for these women had them in dark, drab colors, and I started thinking about the things we can change about ourselves, and the things we can’t. You can change your clothes and hair, but you can’t really change much about your skin, and it’s certainly a process if you want Read more

  • The Lakes Project

    My best friend from childhood asked me to help make the table markers for her Minnesota wedding, and she said that she wanted each table to be a different Minnesota lake.  I decided to pick all our favorite lakes from growing up, and then a few others with either fun names or fun shapes or Read more

  • Secret Valentine’s Day

    I organized a Secret Valentine exchange for my work and we were only allowed to spend $5, and homemade gifts are always appreciated, so I decided to make the card (I also got my valentine a small plant). I made a heart out of like 20 different papers and then collaged them together on the Read more

  • Models

    Also while I was bored at home recovering, I made some portraits of models from magazine ads.  The gold hair girl is my favorite – crazy hair is always the most fun to make.  The one of the green girl I donated to my friend’s Marathon fundraiser and apparently it became a new New Yorker’s first Read more

  • Girl with a Gun

    A friend told me he liked my art, but that he thought it would really only appeal to chicks (which wasn’t the first time I’d heard that).  He said if I wanted to make something for dudes it would have to be a girl holding a gun or something.  Done. Read more

  • Thank You Cards

    With all my time staying home recovering from surgery and unable to do much, I decided to make thank you cards for all my amazing friends who took care of me and kept me company.  These are all cutouts from scrapbooking paper. These ones were cutouts of images from the different papers These were all Read more

  • Dear Surgeon

    I tore my ACL playing soccer and was a little terrified about surgery.  I decided to make a card for my surgeon with a guilt-trippy message about “thank you in advance for making me able to run again” and “I’m so grateful to be in the hands of such a respected surgeon” or whatever, and Read more

  • Self Portrait 2

    A boyfriend at the time took a picture of me that he really liked, but I did not at all. So to get rid of it I made it into this portrait, which I do like. Read more

  • Cellist for Grandma

    My grandmother was a wonderful cellist, and she loved everything music related, so for her 80th birthday I made her a cellist portrait. I used glossy paper to make up the instrument itself in order to make it pop a little bit. Read more