Karina is a visionary artist specializing in oil and watercolor painting. She has over 30 years of experience in book illustration, murals, and selling commissioned works. With a Bachlor of Fine Art from USC, She is experienced in an array of 2 & 3D media. Karina has been featured in multiple publications for her illustrations and watercolor illustrated books such as “39 Ways to Open Your Heart” (Conari Press) and "Growing with your Child" (Source Books). Her art is influenced by her spiritual practice and study of Umbanda, Kriya Yoga, and Hula shaped by her experience of raising three children, and inspired by her work caring for tropical ethnobotanical gardens. Her home is on the windward slopes of Hawaii Island's Mauna Kea, where she has resided for over three decades and where she is expanding her studio to provide a space for people to be immersed in nature while studying art, indigenous wisdom and sustainable living.

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Karina is a visionary artist specializing in oil and watercolor painting. She has over 30 years of experience in book illustration, murals, and selling commissioned works. With a Bachlor of Fine Art from USC, She is experienced in an array of 2 & 3D media. Karina has been featured in multiple publications for her illustrations and watercolor illustrated books such as “39 Ways to Open Your Heart” (Conari Press) and "Growing with your Child" (Source Books). Her art is influenced by her spiritual practice and study of Umbanda, Kriya Yoga, and Hula shaped by her experience of raising three children, and inspired by her work caring for tropical ethnobotanical gardens. Her home is on the windward slopes of Hawaii Island's Mauna Kea, where she has resided for over three decades and where she is expanding her studio to provide a space for people to be immersed in nature while studying art, indigenous wisdom and sustainable living.

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Karina is a visionary artist specializing in oil and watercolor painting. She has over 30 years of experience in book illustration, murals, and selling commissioned works.
With a Bachlor of Fine Art from USC, She is experienced in an array of 2 & 3D media. Karina has been featured in multiple publications for her illustrations and watercolor illustrated books such as “39 Ways to Open Your Heart” (Conari Press) and “Growing with your Child” (Source Books).

Her art is influenced by her spiritual practice and study of Umbanda, Kriya Yoga, and Hula shaped by her experience of raising three children, and inspired by her work caring for tropical ethnobotanical gardens.

Her home is on the windward slopes of Hawaii Island’s Mauna Kea, where she has resided for over three decades and where she is expanding her studio to provide a space for people to be immersed in nature while studying art, indigenous wisdom and sustainable living.

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Language

Portuguese
Intermediate

Work Experience

Illustrator at Conari Press, Source Books & private publishers
April 29, 1997 - October 31, 2025
Illustration for self healing and fantasy genres mostly with watercolor painting, colored pencil and pen and ink. Some in Procreate

Education

Bachelor of Fine Art at University of Southern California -Los Angeles
September 1, 1986 - June 1, 1990
Educated in most 2D and 3D arts

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    uniE621 39 Ways to Open Your Heart
    illustrator, Cover artist