Art By Raealize

woman

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Pregnant Jen

    A darling friend of mine from Portland was pregnant and had this beautiful photo series done with her husband. I’m not sure exactly how I decided to use one of her images to make a portrait, but I think it might have originated in a facebook comment conversation based on some of my other pieces. Read more

  • SHAG T-shirt Contest

    In grad school I joined a student group called the Sexual and Reproductive Health Action Group, or SHAG for short (you can just ignore the fact that it should really be SRHAG) (Also did I mention that I went to Public Health school and that my concentration was in adolescent reproductive health? Now maybe it Read more