Entangled: A Painting Collaboration

This is a little art project I worked on in collaboration with my girlfriend @yuejiaoxian during the stress-free days before the start of the semester. She wanted to draw a whale, while I was partial toward something with a little more tentacles, so we settled on combining both ideas.

Drawing with another person can be a very fun experience. We both had a hand in every part of the drawing - although she ended up drawing most of the jellyfish, while I focused on the whale.

The materials were mostly watercolor and pen, with a little bit of India ink thrown in for shadows, and salt grains for texture on the whale. We signed the piece “Raxy”, from of our initials… I know it’s cheesy… We’ll work on it.

This will be the second artwork that we have made together¹, and it’s the first one that we get to keep! Hopefully we’ll get do some more.

Update: We later decided that we wanted to change the background for this piece. We made them float in space! You can see the finished work here.