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Hello Everyone, If you are new to by blogs, welcome. If you are not new to my blogs, welcome back! Hope everyone had a wonderful & safe spring break. This past week was an eventful week for me. Going on the trip to San Francisco, it being weekend Easter weekend & trying to get getting back into the groove of things back home. On our trip, we tried some new restaurants, went to the California Academy of Sciences, SFMOMA , Ripleys!, Madame Tussauds & the San Francisco Dungeon. We walked around UC Berkeley, Haight Street in SF & around Pier 39, which was pretty fun. It was fun, finding inspiration in the big city that surrounds its visitors with art & beautiful weather. Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Snowman , 1987/2016 Here in Central California, we have been experiencing warmer weather than usual, which we aren’t used to because we were having nice San Francisco/Los Angeles weather. The other day, as I was leaving the store; walking to my ca

Happy Friday Everyone! A couple of announcements today guys; the My Neighbor Totoro Design Contest is until open for submissions until 11:59PM PST on March 28, 2018 & voting is open until 11:59PM PST on April 04, 2018. With that being said, I encourage anyone that wants to submit artwork to do so & since you’ll already be on the For Fans By Fans website , might as well vote for my artwork if you haven’t already. You don’t have to be the best at art, just as long as you’re a fan & have fun with it. There are also other contests on the website if you're interested. I’ll put the links to everything down below. The website will ask you to create an account, which is fairly simple. All you have to do is type in your email address, first name, last name & create a password or you can just sign up with your Facebook account. If you have voted, please comment on this page, so I can show you guys some love. * I enabled commenting on this page, so that you don

Stars on a Hook, 15x19, 2018, Digital   Happy Tuesday Everyone, Hope You’re Having a Great One! As promised, here is my design for the For Fans By Fans: My Neighbor Totoro Design contest. I uploaded my design to the FFBF site but it’s going to take 1-2 business days to be approved & uploaded. I’ll keep you guys updated on the status of the design & when you guys can go vote. In the meantime, let me know what you think. I wanted to keep this the design cute, unique & in space rather than in a forest. Even though, Totoro’s are forest spirits; I felt that a lot of the entries were going to be based in the forest. I might be doing a give away when the artwork is posted; more on that in the next blog. Thanks for taking time out of your busy day & spending some time on me; I appreciate it. Talk to you guys soon & Stay Tuned! My Links Website: https://alexstudios.worldsecuresystems.com/ Instagram: Itsmealexblogs Snapchat: I

(This is not my design, this is the contest banner) Hello Everyone, Happy Thursday! Hope you’re having a great one. I know I missed Tuesday’s blog, sorry about that I had some things I had to take care of. (Professor Farnsworth’s voice) Good news everyone! I have entered a t-shirt design contest & am going to need your help. The contest is for a website called For Fans by Fans , it’s for the 30 th anniversary of the movie My Neighbor Totoro . The grand prize winner will get their design on a t-shirt that will be featured in stores, win a private theater screening for the winner & 10 guests, a collectible ticket, an exclusive Studio Ghibli art print designed & signed by Ashley Taylor or the equivalent cash value of $2,000. There will also be 4 finalists that will win a mystery gift box hand-picked by Ashley Eckstein or the equivalent cash value of $300, & have their design featured in stores, which is also a great prize. So the way that this conte

Hey everyone, Sorry, I’ve been gone for a week. How have you guys been? Hopefully you all have been well & have had a great week. I’m great, SUPER pumped for the news that I will be unveiling either Sunday in a special blog post or Tuesday. Over the next couple posts, I wanted to talk about one of my favorite art movements & a couple of the artist in the movement; which is expressionism. To celebrate International Women’s Days, I’m going to start off by talk about Kathe Kollwitz; who was considered to be a very important contributor to the art world in the 20 th century. She gave a new meaning to the word expression. Expressionism is an art movement that began in the early 20th century. The movement’s origin was rumored to have emerged from an exhibit in Paris in 1901 and is still used today in many other pieces of art.  Prior to the events of World War I, artists from this movement had gone against the aesthetic forms and cultural norms with a deep sense of socia

Hey what's up everyone, Hope you're having a great afternoon! The YouTube video below is about Berndnaut Smilde . He is a visual artist from The Netherlands that created artificial clouds for his series called Nimbus ; where he created clouds in unusual spaces such as buildings & then photographed them. I thought this would be a  cool video to share. I placed the link to his website down below, if you'd like to see more. E njoy & Happy Taco Tuesday ! My Links Website: https://alexstudios.worldsecuresystems.com/ Instagram: @Itsmealexblogs Berndnaut Smilde www.berndnaut.nl/