Artist Bio
Tina is a visual artist specializing in acrylic and oil paint, oil pastels, watercolor, and gouache. Her portfolio primarily consists of painted sketches or sketched-out paintings. Taking a relaxed approach to painting, she builds up layers of images and color to bring her aesthetic visions to life on canvas.
Tina’s mind wanders to daydreams of trees becoming more architecturally prevalent in human society or the irony of wanting to drift asleep floating in her cup of morning coffee. Equally, inspiration for her work can derive from something as insignificant as a unique color or a figure pose. As if the sketchbook is a piece within itself, her favorite work is concept sketching ideas as quickly as they cross her mind and sight. The passion is creating masterpieces from the original sketches.
Tina completed her BFA at the Gwen Frostic School of Art at Western Michigan University. Tina lives in Chicago with her soul mate Garrett and their two cat children Beau and Uma.