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St. Claire created many large scale hand painted pieces that she installed around the city of Los
Angeles. She did wheat pasting, graphic design, silk screening, acrylic, spray and enamel painting in her work on the street. Most of her pieces surround the female form or face, and images of crystals,
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St. Claire is remembered primarily as an illustrator, she also worked with clients, studios, companies and organizations, and taught herself a number of disciplines. Her work tends to be multi-disciplinary in her style and technique. She created thousands of pieces of art in her lifetime that varied
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St. Claire also produced more formal paintings, drawings, and mixed media. Tina's work often featured a “feminine” color scheme and contained images of female skulls, symbolism, cats, crystals, and other personally significant imagery to Tina. The subjects in most of her paintings and drawings were
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morphed from a zine project into a full-time creative studio entity and working space. The zine project and book highlighted the two artists’ individual talents and individual styles of art and art-making. The artists used techniques such as inking, drawing, silkscreen printing, and hand painting,
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Tina St. Claire and Dereck
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life forms of some kind, whether animals, animal skulls or women, and they nearly always had empty eyes. Her fiancé, Dereck
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most frequently. Seltzer proposed to Tina St. Claire shortly before her hospitalization for cancer treatment in 2016. He stayed with her while she resided in the hospital and attempted to raise money to support her medical bills through a
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from full paintings, sketches in her moleskin journals, silk screen print editions, numerous legal and illegal street installations, stickers, tapestries, zines, clothing of her designs, and fine art.
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zines and book showcases the different relationship between St. Claire's and Dereck
Seltzer's styles. As of 2024, the project remains active, and since 2016 it has had a few exhibitions in the US.
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