Walking Home

Tessa Guze, Walking Home, oil paint, 2011

This is a painted of a little boy I used to teach.  When I was in Jaipur India, I volunteered to teach in an impoverished shanty town. To see more similar paintings visit my fine arts blog or my painting portfolio website.

Memory Portrait

Tessa Guze, Lady in Blue, oil on canvas,  6" x 8"

This is a portrait of the lady who lived next door to the school where I taught in Jaipur, India. Our school was really just the space between two peoples houses with a tarp as a roof to keep rain and sun out. Every morning, this lady and the rest of her family would step over my students when they needed to come and go from their house.

My tiny school, its the space between the buildings under the blue tarp.

My students trying to fix an extra tarp on our school to shield us from the summer sun.

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Help?

Tessa Guze, Help, Oil on Canvas

This is a painting of a beggar in India.

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Jugar

Jugar is a children's book that I conceived while in India and then asked my mother Karen Guze to write for me to illustrate.

Jugar (joogar), n. The uniquely Indian concept, hard to translate, of inventively using whatever is at hand in order to get the job done.

Jugar is a young puppy living on the streets of a market in India. He is so young that all he knows is hot, dry weather—he has never seen the rainy season. He ignores the kind warnings of his friends Cow, Camel, and Monkey, and gets into trouble when it starts to rain.

He meets a young boy, and thanks to this boy’s creativity (or jugar), they both make it safely through the Monsoon.

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Tessa Guze, Jugar Book Cover Layout

Tessa Guze, Jugar and Mother Cow, Oil on Canvas, 2011

Tessa Guze, Jugar in the Market, Oil on Canvas, 2011

Tessa Guze, Jugar and Sonu the Camel, oil on canvas, 2011

Tessa Guze, The Rain Drop, oil on canvas, 2011

Tessa Guze, Laughing Monkeys, oil on canvas, 2011

Tessa Guze, Testing the Water, oil on canvas, 2011

Tessa Guze, Swept Away, oil on canvas, 2011

Tessa Guze, Attempt to Climb, oil on canvas, 2011

Tessa Guze, New Friends, oil on canvas, 2011

Tessa Guze, Marooned, oil on canvas, 2011

Tessa Guze, Going Home, oil on canvas, 2011

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just for fun

Tessa Guze, Sacred Cows, oil on canvas, 2011

Tessa Guze, Street Puppy, oil on canvas, 2011

Tessa Guze, "Mo", oil on canvas, 2011

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Memory Miniatures

These are memory portraits I did of people I meet when I was teaching in Jaipur. I had to work small because I was traveling so they are all postcard sized, 4inches x 6 inches (10 cm x 15 cm).

Tessa Guze, Sonu and Baby, oil on canvas, 2010

Tessa Guze, The Land Lady, oil on canvas, 2010

Tessa Guze, Pinky, oil on canvas, Jaipur, India 2010

Tessa Guze, Nakita, oil on canvas, Jaipur, India 2010

To see more similar work please visit my painting portfolio website or my portrait painting blogs.

Fellowship Exhibition

I just applied for and won a Travel Fellowship to spend my summer in India. I will be spending a month in Jaipur teaching street children and then going to New Delhi for 7 weeks while I intern at Roli Books! Here are some photos of the artwork that accompanied my fellowship proposal.

Fellowship Exhibition, The Galleries at Moore, 2010

Tessa Guze, How the Painted Hunting Dog Got His Spots, Handmade book,

Tessa Guze, Water, oil on canvas, 2010

Tessa Guze, Unescorted, Oil on Canvas, 2010

Here is a photo of me with my students in Jaipur!

Tessa Guze and her students in Jaipur, India, 2010

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