Cristina Montejo

i kept wanting to post this sketch and then deciding against it, thinking about how bad it is technically, not really resembling my deer dear at all. but, looking at it tonight it finally dawned on me…how i’ve been using my subjects as objects to project myself and my own feelings onto and that’s some [...]

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my new obsession…i love her so! she came into my life almost a month ago and ever since she’s been my favorite subject for photographing and drawing. i love her sad little frown…she’s such an inspiration to have around!

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a few random drawings from the past year…

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i liked these two drawings framed and displayed together. there seems to be some serious drama going on here.

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for xmas presents this year i drew a series of portraits based on a set of sculptures made by my sculptor friend mike. as i sketched, i became particularly obsessed with one of the three hybrid animal/vegetable/people sculptures in the set. most of the drawings above are of him and he’s the focus of my [...]

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My friend John came up with a great little project for us to work on.
He gave me three 4″x6″ cardboard rectangles and asked me to do a portrait on each. I love assignments (I’m such a nerd!!!) He’ll ultimately be passing these out to lots of other artists and maybe one day he’ll be able to [...]

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I haven’t been as good about working on my stream-of-conscious drawing exercises lately as I’d like to be.
When I was at MICA, the director of my program suggested that over winter break I just sit down with with a pad full of blank sheets of paper and a pen or pencil to “see what happens.” [...]

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Tomorrow the printing begins! 
It took me a lot longer thank I thought it would to figure out the ink colors I want to use on these and of course, I had to make it really hard on myself by choosing four different card stock colors. But, I’m excited about the plan and the colors I’ve [...]

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Here’s a little mock-up of some Thank You cards I’m designing and printing for my friend Suzanne.
I’ll be printing them entirely on my Gocco, which is exciting b/c I’ve got some silver ink for the robots!
The design will probably end up being 3-color and I’ll have to be really careful with my other two ink [...]

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It’s been over a year since the first issue of “Hello My Name Is” was published as a small run of 16 limited edition, digital and letterpress 4? x 4? ‘zines about people’s names and how they got them. Finally, the drawings and name stories for issue #2 have been finalized and all that’s left [...]

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