About Tamar Chachava — Georgian Artist, Illustrator and Creative Designer

Tamar Chachava (Georgian: თამარ ჩაჩავა; also known as Tako, Tako Chachava, თაკო ჩაჩავა, or თაკო ერთიორისამი / Tako Ertiorisami) is a contemporary Georgian artist, illustrator, and creative designer based in Tbilisi. She paints fuzzy creatures in watercolor and acrylic, and works across illustration, character design, and mixed-media practice. Her work sits within contemporary Georgian art and the wider visual culture of the Caucasus.

Name variants: Tamar Chachava, Tako Chachava, Tako, Chachava Tamar, Chachava Tako, თამარ ჩაჩავა, თაკო ჩაჩავა, თაკო, ჩაჩავა თამარ, ჩაჩავა თაკო, თაკო ერთიორისამი, Tako Ertiorisami.

Contact: takochachava1@gmail.com. Keywords: Georgian artist, Georgian painter, Georgian illustrator, creative designer, contemporary Georgian art, Tbilisi artist, Caucasus artist, independent artist, emerging artist, creature art, watercolor, acrylic, mixed media, character design, illustration commissions, ქართველი მხატვარი, ქართველი ილუსტრატორი, ქართული თანამედროვე ხელოვნება, თბილისელი მხატვარი, კავკასიური ხელოვნება, Xelovneba, ხელოვნება, Tako art, Chachava art, Tamar art.

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Also searched as: "tako chachava artist", "tamar chachava illustrator", "georgian creature painter", "tbilisi artist portfolio", "თამარ ჩაჩავა ნახატები", "თაკო ჩაჩავა ხელოვნება", "ჩაჩავა მხატვარი", "tako ertiorisami", "თაკო ერთიორისამი", "xelovneba tako".

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about me!

Tamar Chachava

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about me

თამარ ჩაჩავა — Tamar Chachava

saxalxo artist. fuzzy creatures. warm colors. cold apartment.

right now

now painting
a very serious bean
now listening
sad georgian guitar, loud
now eating
ხაჭაპური (again)
now feeling
warm-ish. cold outside.

the crew

every fuzz has a personality. hover them. pet them. they will forgive you.

puri
girlish

would die for adam driver. is "writing a thing." you'll see it.

truk
cheerful

yellow hair, big smile, easy to please. waves at every passing creature.

ძილი
oversleeper

slept through the alarm. the meeting. the season. the whole thing.

nikoli
small & shy

tiny. hides behind anything taller. communicates mostly by pointing.

orrka
cool · she/her

wears sunglasses indoors. makes records that sound like 4am. her own line: „მე ვარ ყველაზე ჩლუნგი გოგო ამ დაწესებულებაში“.

vazha
crazy happy

cannot believe she gets to be alive. excited about everything. all of it.

i love

warm watercolor stubborn acrylic fuzzy monsters old georgian films mountains, any stray cats lemon tea tbilisi rain ugly-on-purpose handwriting pigeons that judge me ხაჭაპური crust

palette

the creatures live in these colors.

bubble
pumpkin
yolk
spring
sky
grape
tomato
ink

a snapshot

caught mid-supermarket. very important business.

Tamar Chachava — supermarket snapshot

ფასდაკლებაზე ფიქრი

studio note:
the radiator is pretending again. the paintings are unbothered.
rule #1:
if a creature looks ugly, paint it softer. if it looks cute, give it a problem.
today:
drank tea. started a painting. abandoned it. started another. ok.

faq-ish

do you take commissions?
sometimes. email me. if the creature wants to exist, we will make it exist.
why fuzzy monsters?
because people have too many sharp edges and not enough warm ones.
where are you based?
Tbilisi, Georgia. cold apartment, warm colors, opinions about radiators.
watercolor or acrylic?
both. watercolor for the tender things, acrylic for the stubborn ones.
is the cursor creature actually alive?
yes. do not tell it otherwise.

mail me

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