Tennis painting

Christina Gliha Illustration is a portfolio site for Toronto artist & illustrator Christina Gliha. Christina draws in a flat painterly style in Procreate and also mixed media like oils, pastels, gouache and pen & ink. Christina is available for freelance editorial or commercial illustration commissions for advertising or publications. She enjoys painting portraits, products, dogs, buildings & food

Centre of Attention My first tennis artwork ‘Rothcourt’ was merely a warmup for what was to be an artwork inspired by the grass court of Wimbledon. My grandmother loved watching tennis and I recall sitting next to her on her leather couch watching Wimbledon every year. Seeing Sharapova, Williams, Djokovic and Federer play was always a highlight. They were her favourite players and therefore automatically mine as well. If you look closely, the ball is at its peak, waiting to fall back for…

Rothko is in the court 🎾 This past holiday we went to Paris to see the Mark Rothko exhibition at the Louis Vuitton Foundation. Finally seeing all his work in person was phenomenal and I was trying to figure out what his abstract artworks could look like if they were representations of the real world. 🗼 The best I could come up with was a tennis court. The only thing was that none of his artworks were purely green and they definitely did not have tennis players on them… so I made this one…