The Airbrush Depression

If you wonder why I've been missing on my blog for the past 4 months and had very limited updates everywhere else, that's because I fell into the great depression when I dropped and broke my beloved airbrush. It was awful. The tip of it got slightly bend so it would randomly splatter paint in the most  unexpected and inconvenient  moments... Ugh! What a terrible period that was.

But the joyous day has arrived when I ordered a replacement needle for it, and all went back to normal. And May has finally brought some very delayed spring weather. So all is well with the world once again!
Now I'm back to creating and preparing for the many cool things that are coming up... like a few new designs for iphone skins,  my upcoming exhibition in LA and some cool stuff behind the blue circus door! Super excited! =)

ps. The Airbrush depression didn't actually happen. I was just too busy or too lazy to update earlier.

Shopping Links

I like to think of myself as an organized person, but lately I've been losing track of all the online stores/website I'm part of.
This year, I'm on a mission to keep better track of all that stuff, and to update things more often.
Not sure when I'll have time to get it all done, but that's the plan...

So for now, here is a list of all the places where my art is being offered for sale. Some are my personal stores, and some are just stores that feature my designs on their products.

My Stores:

IPhone/Itouch Skins: http://nataillustration.bigcartel.com

Original Art: http://www.etsy.com/shop/nataillustration


Other Stores:

Framed Prints and Posters: http://www.artflakes.com/en/shop/nata-ibragimov

T-Shirts, Canvas Prints, Pillows and Other cool stuff: http://society6.com/nataillustration

T-shirts "Imagine The World Without Cancer": https://legion11.3dcartstores.com/Imagine_p_29.html

And eco friendly t-shirts "Ivy":  http://www.neverhill.de/ivy.html


It's so hard to organize all this business stuff when all I want to do is put on my headphones and paint all day.
Oh no, right brain taking over again!

And just to make this post a little colorful, here is a good photograph of one of my paintings that I put up on Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/listing/119484637/original-framed-painting-lea

And she drew...

Lately I've been inspired to create more and more of such meticulous paintings. This is the second one of the series, and I have a whole bunch more planned.
I find these a lot of fun to create. Yet at the same time, they take a lot out of me. Every detail is meaningful to me in some way and if I do it right, then I am able to convey the mood of the piece to the audience.

Here it is.... untitled for now.... 

As well as some detail shots of work in progress....

Promo Video is up!

Last March, I collaborated with mxmum™ to create a little promo video of my work. It was a fun afternoon shoot. =)

Now I think it's time to share this creation with the rest of you, peeps. I know everyone has seen photos of my art and all that, but what you haven't seen is how incredibly camera shy I am on video. I don't stutter or anything...I just forget to how to speak all together at times. heh...

Anyways, a huuuuge thank you to motvitskiy and mxmum™ for creating this for me. The editing is awesome! =)

Click on the link to view the video! http://vimeo.com/51820507

Kids, back up your files!

This week was big!
The passing of my iMac meant a lot of things.
One, and saddest of all, I didn't back up my files often enough, so a lot of my latest digital work was lost....forever. =( It took me a few days to get over it... So kids, always back up your files (every 3 minutes if you must!)
Two, I was left without photoshop, illustrator and all the other adobe software which is a big part of my work.
Three, I got to sketch a lot and think of new ideas on paper. =)
And four, I was in serious need of new and improved technology.


Sooooo, long story short, my whole studio just had a 2012 make over. I'm yet to turn on my new iMac, connect my adobe suite6, and the coolest of all the new stylus tablet. It's a bit overwhelming, since the last time I had a major technology upgrade was in 2006. In computer years, that's like 300 years ago.

Hopefully I will get back on track soon. There is a lot of digital rendering to be done in the coming weeks, and many updates to come.
In the meantime, here is an iphone pic of a new series I'm working on... "The World of Broken Dolls".
I'm imagining something along the lines of "Toy Story'' meets "Saw".

WIP. Duotone version. iphone photo.

@Nata Ibragimov 2012

Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

September 2012 marks Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.
I created an illustration for this cause. It is inspired by an amazing little girl named Talia Castellano. If you never heard of her, google her and/or check out her YouTube. She is pretty awesome!

In the meantime, here is the illustration:
"Imagine The World Without Cancer"

Christinas

I don't know how other artists work, but whenever I paint, there is usually a soundtrack that goes along with my paintings. Sometimes it's music that inspired the piece, sometimes it's just background music that happened to be on the radio (pandora) at the moment. Whatever it is, most of my paintings have a soundtrack associated with them. The soundtracks range from creepy instrumental music, to classical, to Disney theme songs (my favs), to oldies, to not-so-oldies, to.... well, you get the point...
These three mini paintings have soundtracks as well. They are three of the most beautiful songs by Christina Aguilera (at least in my opinion). "Bound to you", "Walk Away", and "You lost me". Can you guess which one is which?

Oh, and let's not even go into Adele and her music... way too many paintings to paint there...heh, maybe one day...


ps. I never have enough space on the little paintings for my signature, so I made up a new, short and sweet signature, just for the minies. =)