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My GIVEAWAY on Instagram is here: you have the chance to win one of TWO CUSTOM ILLUSTRATIONS from your fave photo! 🎨 I just reached 2K followers on Instagram, which I’m supa excited excited about, and I want to celebrate with you! First off, I want to say THANK YOU for all your support, I’m so happy to have you in my corner every day, I appreciate it more than you can imagine 🙏 And to show my appreciation for keeping this girl connected to the world beyond my sketch pad lol, I want to give you the chance to win one of TWO gifts to celebrate all TWO thousand of my IG friends from all around the world, yaaay!! This means we’ll have TWO WINNERS, one for each of the two custom illustrations! Both illustrations will be similar to this illustration I painted of @mimigstyle and her husband @norrisdantaford for their wedding back in June 💖 And, you can enter from anywhere around the world because this giveaway is open INTERNATIONALLY! 🌎 I hope you like my gift, I’m SOOOOO excited about this one!! And when I get to 3K followers on Instagram, I’ll have to do something to top this one, right?? 😜 I’m open to suggestions on what to do for the next one, so make sure to tell me your suggestions on Instagram ✨ TO ENTER GIVEAWAY: Head over to my Instagram @thecristinatudor and check out THIS NEW POST, which has this same image of Mimi and Norris and their illustration. This post has all the instructions on how to enter the giveaway 🖌 Giveaway CLOSES on Friday, August 16, 2019, at 10pm PST, so go enter now, I don’t want you to miss out! Good luck! 🤞 xo, Cristina
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The calendar for August is here! I was inspired by hot summer days and the gorgeous LA summer sunsets full of pinks, purples, golds and oranges to paint this one, so I’m calling it Summer Girl. If you like Summer Girl, please post your pics of it, tag me @thecristinatudor in your pics and use the hashtag #ctudorcalendar or #cristinatudorart so I can find them :) It would make my day and I’d love to repost your pics on my IG account! 💖 And if you’d like to brighten up someone’s day, feel free to share my website cristinatudor.com with them so they can sign up for my calendar, too - the minute they sign up, they get the current month's calendar immediately in their inbox. Have a fab month of August and stay cool out there! xo Cristina Hey guys
How come it’s June, yet it’s still so cold here in Los Angeles? Haven’t we heard it’s summer yet? ;) Seriously, it’s been raining a lot and it’s been so cold, I just wanna vege. But instead I painted your June calendar, willing summer and beach weather to get here already with my happy Pineapple Girl! Have you seen my very first IG LIVE PAINTING PARTY on Instagram @thecristinatudor? If you haven’t, I painted this very calendar with everyone who showed up, and I was very happy to include everyone in the process. I literally started the calendar with a blank piece of paper, a couple of inspiration images, and my brushes and paints. I sketched a rough outline, painted the illustration with watercolors, talked everyone through my entire process, and in about an hour, we had this calendar ready to go! If you missed out, or you didn’t get my calendar, no worries: I will do another one soon, but make sure to subscribe to my newsletter at cristinatudor.com to be the first to know when I do another live painting party and to get this calendar and future ones directly in your inbox! In the meantime, if you want a supa cool new phone case, head over to my shop at cristina-tudor-art.myshopify.com and check out all the new cases I added, with lots of my illustrations. Let me know which ones are your faves, ok? I'd love to know what you like so I can bring you just the kind of illustrations you love! I hope you like your new calendar this month, and if you do, please let me know. I would love to see photos of your printed calendar (or your phone cases or T-shirts!) and to feature them on my IG account, so tag me @thecristinatudor in your pics and use the hashtag #ctudorcalendar so I can find them :) And if you’d like to brighten up someone’s day, please share my website cristinatudor.com with them so they can sign up for my calendar, too - the minute they sign up, they get the current month's calendar immediately in their inbox. Enjoy Pineapple Girl, and have a great early summer! xo, Cristina Happy Mother’s Day, Mommy! @ariclia 🌸 I love you SO MUCH! ❤️
You are the BEST mom in the world, the strongest and most courageous person I know, and you have ALWAYS been my biggest supporter and given me the MOST unconditional love anyone could give!!! 💖 Thank you for everything you always do for me, for being there for me from day one 😉 and for always making me your top priority even when that meant sacrificing your own happiness 🙏 Thank you for raising me as a single mom, through countless hardships, without any support from my dad, with little money, and for making my childhood a happy one despite a hard life in communist Romania. Thank you for getting me through those first years of living in such a rough country and times, and most of all for having the courage to leave all that behind and jump into the unknown, without a shred of hesitation, without a doubt that you would give me a much better life. You certainly have! We have an amazing life here in the States, and I could not be happier 🇺🇸 I am so proud to be an American, to live such an amazing life in this beautiful place, and I count my blessings every day! I thank God for everything He has given us, and I thank YOU for making it happen, for being a STRONG and FEARLESS momma and for having the courage to GO for it!! For all these reasons, and SO MUCH MORE, you are the BEST mom in the world and I am the LUCKIEST person in the world to be your daughter!I love you always and forever! Happy Mother’s Day to all of you amazing moms out there! 😘❤️🌸 April showers bring May flowers! It’s May, and I’m all about spring and flowers this month. I was inspired to paint the May calendar by the flowers in the recent SoCal superbloom, the upcoming Mother’s Day, and by Molly Bee, aka @beautsoup on Instagram, who creates fantastic makeup looks and always looks incredible! So I’m going to call this one Flower Girl! ;) And if you want to make Mom happy this Mother’s Day, you can use code MOTHER15 on all my art prints in my shop at cristina-tudor-art.myshopify.com until Tuesday, May 7 at 11:59pm, which is also the last day to order your prints if you want to make sure you get them before Mother’s Day (May 12). As always, all US shipping is FREE! :) Didn't get my April calendar? Sign up at cristinatudor.com today, and it'll pop right in your inbox! Here's a few behind the scenes peeks at my illustration process for this month's calendar:
Are you guys finally getting some warmer weather? The rains seem to have stopped here in LA, and the sun is out again, yay! I guess April’s calendar, Hair Bow Girl, brought out the sunshine :) I had loads of fun painting your calendar this month and dressing up Hair Bow Girl in a pink strapless dress for an Easter tea party with her pet bunny. Didn't get my April calendar? Sign up at cristinatudor.com today, and it'll pop right in your inbox! Here's a behind the scenes peek at my illustration process for this month's calendar: I hope you enjoy Hair Bow Girl, and I hope she brings you a warm and sunny spring!
Happy Easter! xo, Cristina My collaboration with Diptyque Paris in Beverly Hills this past Thursday was amazing! I loved customizing @diptyque candle boxes with my illustrations for so many lovely fashion and beauty influencers in Los Angeles! The event, ‘Materials That Stir Emotions’, celebrated the Beverly Hills release of the newest limited edition Diptyque candle duo, Lys + Narguile, a spring collection. The two candles transport one to Moroccan riads with their scents when paired and burned together. I was only too happy to contribute to the experience with emotion evoking watercolors. Check out more pics + videos from the event HERE. It was a lot of fun to connect with so many new peeps in our LA beauty and fashion community and to personalize the boxes for their chosen candle duos! 💖 Everyone loved their boxes, and I enjoyed painting them so much! Thank you @jennyong @mybelonging @thestylesauce @amyserrano @monicawangphoto @tylynnnguyen @dathias and so many others for sharing your beautiful photos and videos of my live painting on Instagram! 🙏 You are my unofficial photogs 😜 I really enjoyed meeting you, you guys rock! 💖 Thank you SO much for having me, Diptyque! 🙏 Your amazing team was so kind and generous, and I appreciate the warm welcome. I had an amazing time and was thrilled to paint live customizations at your beautiful store in Beverly Hills, can’t wait to return! Have you guys noticed Instagram was down ALL DAY yesterday?? Whaaat? It's like something was missing ;) Well, actually something WAS missing: the chance for my IG friends to snag 20% off all my HAND PAINTED T-shirts and free shipping, that's what!
So to be fair, and most of all to prevent any of us from experiencing any FOMO (aka: Fear Of Missing Out, lol), I decided to extend the launch special for one more day ... Does that mean it's now an 'Instagram Down' special? ;) You decide! :)) And so, thanks to Instagram, you have ONE MORE DAY to enjoy 20% off + FREE SHIPPING on my HAND PAINTED fashion illustration T-shirts – offer expires TODAY, Thursday 3/14 at 11:59PM PST. Visit my shop at Cristina Tudor Shop and enter code VIP20 at checkout to unlock your VIP SPECIAL OFFER, plus you get FREE SHIPPING in the US (offer includes all T-shirts and art prints in my shop). And speaking of Instagram: check out which T-shirt I'll be wearing TODAY at my live illustration event with Diptyque Paris in Beverly Hills this evening ... spoiler alert: it has pink in it! ;) Find me at @thecristinatudor Share the VIP20 code and my shop cristina-tudor-art.myshopify.com with your squad, too, to make them feel better for missing out on a whole day of Instagram ;) xo Cristina Hi guys,
I’m beyond excited to introduce to you my new collection of HAND PAINTED fashion illustration T-shirts! That’s right, hand painted! This T-shirt collection was born from my dream of merging my artwork with fashion, of creating artwork in a wearable form. I’ve always dreamed of seeing my paintings worn by everyone! And what better way to start this off than with a T-shirt, a staple in our day to day wardrobes that can be worn so many ways, dressed up or down. A T-shirt becomes a blank canvas, and under my brush, it turns into a wearable work of art, created especially for you here in my Los Angeles studio! To celebrate the launch of my new collection, I'm extending a VIP SPECIAL OFFER of 20% off all orders NOW thru Wednesday 3/13 at 11:59PM PST ! And all US shipping is FREE! To unlock this offer, simply visit my shop at Cristina Tudor Shop and enter code VIP20 at checkout (offer includes all T-shirts and art prints in my shop). Offer expires on Wednesday 3/13 at 11:59PM PST ! I can’t wait to see how you wear and style your T-shirt, how you make it all … you! The sky is the limit with these tees: pair them with high waisted jeans, half-tuck them in a pencil skirt, or even add them to shiny black leggings with a blazer and some sparkly earrings for a fun night out - which is how I plan to wear my 'Pink Plumeria' tee this Thursday at my live painting event with Diptyque Paris in Beverly Hills. I'll share my outfit pics from the event and my styling tips with you on Instagram @thecristinatudor on Thursday, so meet me on IG. Check out my full collection of 10 designs and share code VIP20 and my shop https://cristina-tudor-art.myshopify.com/ with your BFF or favorite boss lady, too, cuz life is better when shared with friends! :) xo Cristina Yay, it’s March! Painting this for you made me feel like it's practically spring! And I’m loving all the spring colors, especially the purples and yellows of tulips against that pretty spring green. The calendar for March, Tulip Girl, was inspired by tulips and yellow hats, those fresh spring smells when everything is in bloom, and more sun than we’ve seen here in LA this winter with all the rains and even SNOW last week! Whaaat?? Didn't get my March calendar? Sign up at cristinatudor.com today, and it'll pop right into your inbox! Here's a behind the scenes peek at my illustration process:
I hope you like Tulip Girl, and if you do, please let me know. I would love to hear back from you and know that you’re enjoying my monthly calendar! Leave a comment below, send me an email, or leave a comment on my Instagram post of the calendar at @thecristinatudor. It would make my day to see your photos of it and feature them on my IG account, so tag me @thecristinatudor in your pics and use the hashtag #ctudorcalendar so I can find them :)
If you’d like to brighten up someone’s day, please share my website cristinatudor.com with them so they can sign up for my calendar, too - the minute they sign up, they get the current month's calendar immediately in their inbox. I hope you enjoy Tulip Girl, and I hope she makes your month a little brighter! Happy (almost) spring! xo, Cristina Find me at cristinatudor.com, on Instagram at @thecristinatudor and on Pinterest at Cristina Tudor Art Welcome to February, the month everyone’s excited about because it not only brings with it a hint of spring, but also Valentine’s Day and a celebration of love. To me, Valentine’s Day, even though it has become so commercialized nowadays, means a switch to fresh creative juices and, of course, a healthy dose of pink ;) And I simply love to get in the spirit of it! Hopefully you do, too, with the help of my Valentine Girl. Didn't get her? Sign up at cristinatudor.com today, and she'll pop right into your inbox! Valentine Girl was inspired by a beautiful pink tulle gown by Reem Acra that I came across on Moda Operandi and simply fell in love with. The sheer layers of tulle, the volume, the romance ... Here's a behind the scenes peek at my illustration process:
I hope you like Valentine Girl, and if you do, please let me know. I would love to hear back from you and know that you’re enjoying my monthly calendar! Leave a comment below, send me an email, or leave a comment on my Instagram post of the calendar at @thecristinatudor. It would make my day to see your photos of it and feature them on my IG account, so tag me @thecristinatudor in your pics and use the hashtag #ctudorcalendar so I can find them :)
If you’d like to brighten up someone’s day, please share my website cristinatudor.com with them so they can sign up for my calendar, too - the minute they sign up, they get the current month's calendar immediately in their inbox. I hope you enjoy Valentine Girl, and I hope she makes your month a little brighter! Happy (early) Valentine's Day! xo, Cristina Find me at cristinatudor.com, on Instagram at @thecristinatudor and on Pinterest at Cristina Tudor Art Happy New Year, guys! I’m soooooo excited for 2019! I feel like there’s so much to look forward to this year, new exciting projects I’ve got in the works, and looking forward to a lot of growth and challenging myself in both my personal life and my art business. Thank you for being part of my journey so far! I can’t wait to continue to share with you all that I’m creating in 2019. Starting with my January 2019 calendar! That’s right, I have decided to continue to share my 2018 free calendar in the new year as well, to keep the tradition going, and I hope you enjoy it. Didn't get it? Sign up at cristinatudor.com and it will be in your inbox in an instant! The January calendar brings you '2019 Girl', who is celebrating the new year in style, sparkling in gold (my new fave color!) and purple. I hope you like her, and if you do, please let me know in the comments below, thru email or on Instagram. I would love to hear back from you and know that you’re enjoying my calendar. You can even post pics of it on IG, I’d love to see them and feature them on my account. Tag me @thecristinatudor in them and use the hashtag #ctudorcalendar so I can find them :)
If you’d like to brighten up someone’s day, please share my website cristinatudor.com with them so they can sign up for my calendar, too - when they sign up for the calendar, they will get the current calendar immediately in their inbox. I’m sending you all my best wishes for 2019, lots of health, happiness and more time with your loved ones! Happy New Year! xo, Cristina With Halloween already here, I was in the mood to paint a Halloween themed illustration this morning. I was inspired by Kate Moss in a glamorous black mask with bunny ears, kinda the perfect Halloween costume.
Happy Halloween! xo Cristina Today, my mom and I are celebrating 28 years in the States! 💙 🇺🇸 ❤️
28 years ago today, the two of us moved to Los Angeles from Romania, with one suitcase and a few words of English between the two of us, but with so much excitement to be here we could barely contain it - an impossible dream that all of a sudden became our incredible reality! October 3rd is easily the happiest day of my life, followed by a close second, March 16, the day I became a proud American citizen more than 17 years ago. The happiness, the culture shock, the disbelief that we actually moved to the promise land, aka California, to start the better parts of our lives are still so vivid in my memory. I remember telling myself on that miraculous day, almost three decades ago, that anything I will EVER do or accomplish from that day forward will be just the cherry on top. Because, as far as I was concerned, I had made the biggest, greatest dream I'd ever had come true! A true miracle! 💙 ‘Gib, Gib, come to California!’ was playing over and over in my head as we arrived at LAX in the middle of the night. The line Anthony Edwards says to John Cusack in ‘The Sure Thing’ as he’s hanging out by the pool in the dead of winter - one of the few but precious references I had to lead me as a young girl on my quest to some day live in LA, and it was actually, finally HAPPENING! ❤️ And here I am, so many years later, as grateful and incredibly happy to live an amazing life as a proud American, in this beautiful country of ours that I felt was home long before I moved here, celebrating each day and thankful I get to live here. On top of it all, it feels amazing to be going on 6 years since moving back to my beloved LA again, where it all began 28 years ago, always an LA girl at heart, and to live my dream in the only place that’s ever felt like my true home. 💙 Happy 28th anniversary, mommy! @ariclia 🥂 I love you and thank you SO much for all your sacrifices and for your constant unconditional love and support! Here’s to 28 more amazing years here at home! God bless America! 😘💙🇺🇸❤️✨ Hi guys, Are you as excited as I am about October and Halloween at the end of the month? Thought so! Every October 1st I get super excited about Halloween, and I start thinking about costume ideas. I love Halloween so much that sometimes I make 2 or 3 costumes and wear them at different parties, or even just during the day around town or during my work day. This year I’m leaning towards being a unicorn. Ya know, a rainbow of color, gold unicorn horn and lots of gold and sparkle! Gotta get my color and sparkle fix! ;) And of course, your calendar for October was inspired by my unicorn dreams, so I give you: Unicorn Girl! I hope you like Unicorn Girl, and maybe she’ll even inspire you to get going on your Halloween costume early on this year – I know I will! Take pics of your colorful Unicorn Girl in the space where she inspires you daily and share them with me on Instagram: use the hashtag #ctudorcalendar and tag me @thecristinatudor so I can see them! It would make my day, and I would love to feature your pics on my Instagram! And I definitely want to see pics of your Halloween costume this year, too :) If your friends need some Halloween inspiration, or you just want to brighten their day, please share my website cristinatudor.com with them so they can download Unicorn Girl, too - if they sign up for the calendar at any time during the month of October, she will arrive immediately in their inbox. Didn't get my Unicorn Girl? Subscribe at cristinatudor.com, add your name and email, and check the 'Email' box in the subscription settings, and she's on her way to you. It's super easy! And share my website with your friend and family so they can get my free calendar every month, too!
Happy Halloween! xo, Cristina Hi guys,
Hope your summer is going well, and you're having fun in the sun! My FREE CALENDAR for August is here today, Pool Party Girl is coming to your inbox as we speak. She's chillin' by the pool with a refreshing umbrella summer pink drink by her side when it's too hot outside to do much of anything else. Hope she inspires you to make the most of your summer and to stay cool while doing it! Didn't get my Pool Party Girl? Subscribe on my blog page at cristinatudor.com, add your name and email, and check the 'Email' box in the subscription settings, and she's on her way to you. Easy peasy! Enjoy the calendar! xo Cristina Summer’s here, yay! I’m so excited! Did I tell you summer is my favorite season? What’s not to love: the sun, the warm nights, and of course living in flip flops ;-)
June’s free calendar, Summer Girl, was inspired by all things summer: longer days, fresh summer fruit, the sun on your face, an explosion of colors, free flowing fun weekends, road trips and going to the beach surrounded by all the beautiful palm trees here in Los Angeles - which, if you’ve been following me for a while, you know all about my palm tree obsession lol. Everything is brighter, juicier and more fun in the summer, amiright? To download my June FREE CALENDAR Summer Girl click on the 'Subscribe' button on my blog page at cristinatudor.com, add your name and email, and check the 'Email' box in the subscription settings. That's it, super easy! Enjoy the calendar! xo Cristina Third time's a charm: collaborating again with The Soap Kitchen in Pasadena for Mother's Day with two new card designs, and I couldn't be more excited!! The cards are now available at The Soap Kitchen in Old Town Pasadena at 25 N Fair Oaks Ave. Join me on Instagram @thecristinatudor for my countdown to a special day, Mother's Day, the day we celebrate the amazing and strong women who brought us into this world!
First off, I want to wish my mom a very happy Mother's Day! Mommy, without you I would not BE. Period. I am amazed at how much you had to go through to bring me into this world, to raise me on your own with little-to-no support from dad, to battle for me my entire life, to make me your number ONE priority like a true mom, to sacrifice and give up SO MUCH to make my childhood a happy and carefree one! Thank you from the bottom of my heart!! Words cannot express how grateful and thankful I am to have a mom like YOU!! You amaze me and inspire me every day, and I love you sooooo much!! xoxoxo <3 Well, my mom is sure getting a custom painted card from me, that's for sure - the very least I can do :-) And I'm happy I can share my Mother's Day cards with all of you, too, hope your moms like them! You can find my two Mother's Day card designs at The Soap Kitchen, the cutest soap shop owned by Dali Yu. Dali makes all the soap and lip balm by hand, from scratch, with love and care, using only natural ingredients. She also designs all the packaging, the gift baskets and wrapping for everything in her shop! Amazing!! The soaps and lip balms are so good for you and they look super pretty, they make the best gifts either on their own or as part of a gift basket. Not sure what to give your mom for Mother's Day this year? Pick up a quick and cute pre-packaged or custom gift basket with yummy bath goodies and one of my Mother's Day cards to go with it, and you're all set. Easy peasy. Plus: mom will love you that much more for the bath goodies and thoughtful gift! <3 The card above was inspired by all the wishful thinking I know moms go through during those tough days of raising us: dreaming of traveling to romantic and beautiful places like Paris, having a great reason (and time!) to get all dressed up, do their hair and make up, take a breath and enjoy the view ... or simply just have time to take a shower! Even if those dreams of elegance and travel are put on hold for now, a luxurious bath experience with all-natural olive oil soap or shea butter soap and bath salts from The Soap Kitchen is easily within reach! Make mom happy this Mother's Day with a beautiful self-care gift! Below is my second Mother's Day card: classic ballet pointe shoes. Because every woman is still a little girl at heart, dreaming of some day becoming a ballerina ... Happy Mother's day to all moms out there! xoxo Cristina With Mother’s Day coming up on May 13 this year, I was inspired by moms and all they do for us. My FREE CALENDAR for May, Glam Girl, is dedicated to all the moms out there, including my own :-) If you’re a mom, I hope you get to spend the day with your kids and loved ones and you take some time for yourself to recharge.
And if you’re not a mom yourself, like me, enjoy the day and celebrate your mom, or simply use the day as an excuse to stop and take a deep breath. Better yet, make the month of May an entire month of self-care: read your fave books or magazines, take relaxing bubble baths, go on nice walks and listen to a book or podcast, or just get dressed up for no reason at all except simply to celebrate your life and a fresh spring season. To get Glam Girl this month, subscribe on my blog page at cristinatudor.com, add your name and email, and check the 'Email' box in the subscription settings, and she's on her way to you. Super easy! Hope you like the Glam Girl and you pin her up in a space where she can inspire you and make you smile throughout the day! Happy Mother's Day! xo Cristina Hi guys,
I'm excited to reveal to you my FREE CALENDAR for April today, Bunny Girl. When I painted this month's calendar, I was inspired by all things Easter and by yellow daffodils, which are one of my favorite spring flowers. To download my April FREE CALENDAR Bunny Girl click on the 'Subscribe' button on my blog page at cristinatudor.com, add your name and email, and check the 'Email' box in the subscription settings. That's it, it's super easy! Enjoy the calendar! xo Cristina Happy New Year! May the new year bring you much joy, health and happiness, and may all your wishes come true in 2018! <3 xoxo Cristina
Merry Christmas, everyone! May your holidays be full of cheers, laughter and great company!
xoxo Cristina Less is more! Obsessed with bringing the face to life on paper with a minimal, edited amount of brush strokes!!
Week 26 of 52 Live Fashion Stories last Friday was inspired by live model Georgina. Live model Brittney was my beautiful inspiration last week for Week 25 of my 52 Live Fashion Stories - putting a spin on color - why are we humans so obsessed with the color of our skin? What if our skin were blue, or purple? Here is Brittney in reds and pinks! We come in all different colors, so let's paint the rainbow!
This is my daily view here in LA on my morning runs :-) It never gets old. Check out more fun facts about my morning routine in this Instagram post. |
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I'm Cristina Tudor, a Beverly Hills fashion illustrator. I paint live illustrations at fashion, retail, entertainment, bridal and lifestyle events for clients such as Chanel, Ferragamo, Piaget, David Yurman x Galia Lahav, Badgley Mischka, Bloomingdale's, Warner Bros. Studios, Diptyque Paris, Ted Baker London, Eric Buterbaugh x Beverly Hills EB Florals, and Survey Monkey, among others. FOLLOW CRISTINA:
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