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Artist-Owned · Made By Hand

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what you love.

Original acrylic paintings. Fine-art prints. Commissions made one of one. Nothing mass-produced, nothing watered down.

The Collection

Look Closer

Nothing here is decoration. Every piece was painted for a reason — hover to see what it was.

Eclipse — abstract acrylic painting in orange, blue and magenta, framed in light wood
Eclipse
Original · Acrylic on Canvas

Made in the dark on purpose. Some things only surface once the light backs off.

Three Witnesses — mixed media painting in purple, gold and silver with layered figures
Three Witnesses
Original · Mixed Media on Canvas

Drawn over in white until the black underneath stopped being empty.

Wild at Heart — acrylic painting of a crowned green creature with flowers and hearts, framed in wood
Wild at Heart
Original · Acrylic on Canvas

Painted the week it all felt like too much — so it went on canvas instead of staying in my chest.

Head Noise — dense black ink portrait on paper in a white frame
Head Noise
Original · Ink on Paper

Drawn without lifting the pen. That's what the inside of a loud week actually looks like.

Originals are one-of-one and priced on request. Prints are made to order in a range of sizes — ask about availability.

The Promise

Raw. Honest.
No Apologies.

Tough Love Art lives where art meets the raw, sometimes harsh truths of life. The work isn't here only to comfort — it's here to challenge. It goes after the things most of us step around: social injustice, personal struggle, the kind of emotional vulnerability nobody posts about. Bold imagery, stark contrast, nothing softened for the room.

Confronting someone with an uncomfortable truth isn't cruelty. It's an invitation to look closer.

From the studio it moves into prints, apparel, and one-off commissions — so a piece that started private ends up somewhere you can live with it. Every commission is one of one. Every print is made to last.

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Made For You

Commissions

Tell me what you can't stop thinking about. It becomes a painting that's never existed before and never will again.

01

Tell Me

Size, palette, the feeling you can't quite name. We talk it through first.

02

I Paint It

Acrylic on canvas, no shortcuts. You see progress along the way.

03

It's Yours

One of one, signed, packed and shipped. Never repeated.

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Prints & Apparel

The same pieces, pulled off the canvas and onto things you actually use.

Get In Touch

Let's Talk

alexiaruth@toughloveart.com

Open for commissions, collaborations, and everything in between.

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