New Octopus Tote Bag

New Designs are done and are now on sale at: http://www.envelop.eu/shop/articles/details/p/cephalopod-love

This image was originally created for tattoo flash, but I loved it so much I thought I would toy with it alittle bit. I am also playing with a few other textile backgrounds that are coming soon..

Close up

It also comes in red...

I am just crazy about this flower/ cephalopod hybrid!

Studio Mayhem

So I always thought it would be easier to work from home..I was delightfully wrong...this is a typical studio day in my neighborhood...

The studio is a complete mess and of course there is always coffee and smokes at arms reach.

These are all of my decapitated flowers and skulls, each one is cut out with an x-acto knife very carefully and the end result is a paper shag carpet...

This would be the circus( Gypsy the cat and Jack the dog) that weaves in and out from under my desk, knocking everything over and chewing on my work.  Here Gypsy is just sniffing my shoe and Jack is trying to get my attention.

And here Jack is clearly letting me know he does not want me working and wants to eat..he does this about every half hour or so...

And this little one is Gwen, she rarely is in the studio but sits at the bottom of the stairs and cries and whines, because she can...she looks sweet, but don't let that fool you..

And at the end of the day if I am lucky I get some work done...

This piece took me about 2 months...

Flower Designs

So I took some time off and I have been working non stop to create a new series of work.  For some time now I have been so engrossed by the landscapes of my past Illustrations that I have centered my new work purely on this.  I seem to think that this obsession with drawing flowers may stem from the fact that this has been one of the worst winters in a long time and maybe I was just praying for Spring.....

These winding flowers are going to be included in the new book I am working on for Bullseye, but I am also using these images as the main characters in my new body of work. 

I have already finished quite a few and I will be posting the new work online at http://www.twistedbeautydesign.com/ , soon to come.

This is just a sample of the new characters starring in my work.....

My Blue Period

Smitten with the color Blue...

Pen and Ink Color Pencil

Tamara Weiss 2010

I have always been drawn to Snap Dragons and Bleeding Hearts.  We used to have a garden full of these and I have many memories of snapping the heads off and pinching them so that they talk....

Pen and Ink Color Pencil

Tamara Weiss 2010

It seems most of my memories revolve around the garden...whether it be from my father smashing fire flies on his finger nails so that they glow in the dark,  my sister and I pulling green moss from in between red bricks in a patio, or from running scared from an influx of Praymantisis crawling on our blue shingled house...

All of these memories are steering my new work with color...

Sneak Peek New Work!

Pen and Ink, Color Pencil 2010

Working on new designs, I finally got my second wind and I am drawing like crazy. This new flower is just the beginning...So much more is a coming....

I just love the color in this flower and it seems that not only does it want to be a part of a much larger art piece, but it also wants to be on my rib cage as well...

Stay tuned...

Book Of Flowers Update!

So it's finally here and ready to be in your hands.  This is a forty page sketch book of stylized flower designs.  A few are in color, but for the most part it's pure pen and ink...

Buy it online at Bullseye!