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

  • 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

  • Self Portrait 1

    I wanted to start posting my stuff on Etsy, which never actually happened, but at the time I thought I should do a self-portrait that I could use as my thumbnail, or whatever. This one comes from a photo taken at the Sasquatch Festival campgrounds at the Gorge in George, Washington. Read more

  • Fundraiser for Haiti

    After the earthquake in Haiti in 2010, a coworker held an art auction as a benefit and I donated two pieces. My coworker gave me some images from Haiti that I could use. The first is a woman praying – this piece was important for me obviously because of the cause, but also because I Read more