Doodles on Margins

Tina St. Claire, 1984 - 2016.

Tina St. Claire was my friend, a brilliant artist and with all meaning of the phrase, one of a kind.

Tina passed away Wednesday morning, March 9th, 2016 at her home in Los Angeles, California after courageously battling Cancer.  I don’t know how to sum someone’s life or our times together up in any form or fashion, it’s an impossible feat.  But Tina was the genuine article when it came to art and being an incredible person.  We had many adventures in the time we knew each other and she taught me many things from all points of life.  She loved her fiancé Dereck Seltzer who was her collaborator, confidant and beside her to the very end.  She loved her kitten Moogle.  She was never not with a sketchbook and she always had a hilarious quip ready for anything.  She saw the world with a light no one else held or will hold.

I will miss my friend.  Sweet dreams sidekick.

I’ve gathered a number of Tina’s works of art, collaborations with her fiancé Dereck and other miscellaneous images below.  Please take a look and look through her Instagram and Tumblr, she was always, always creating.

he was a king.

this was the year he was going to die.

Before the computing era, ILM was the master of oil matte painting, making audiences believe that some of the sets in the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogy were real when they weren’t. They were the work of geniuses like Chris Evans, Michael Pangrazio, Frank Ordaz, Harrison Ellenshaw and Ralph McQuarrie ! Forever thank you, to their handmade art and the work of their colleagues, that made us dream of impossible worlds and fantastic places across Earth and the Universe.

There are more background paintings on this article, featuring comments by the masters/artists themselves ! 

Some of the following pieces were made by other artists:

So, after Nebraskon I got really amped about working on prints for tabling next year (which I’d really like to do, since I didn’t get to this year!), so I dug out some of the designs I had started earlier in the year and started to finish them!  The Korrasami one was first because I am a sucker for Korrasami and art nouveau things.  Aaaand I forgot to sign this, but I’ll add it before I print it.  I was too excited to post this, haha.