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Hello Everyone, h ope you are having a great day! Mapped Out #2 , 36" × 48", acrylic soft-pastel on stretched canvas, 2017 I love nature especially where I live because we are surrounded by fields of fruit. We get to see them blossom in the spring & the leaves change colors throughout the fall. I’ve been doing a lot of gardening lately; planting/transplanting roses, planting succulents, pruning & keeping up the yard. The list goes on... I am currently working on  creating a cactus themed raised bed. The borders are made out of rounded bricks. I also have been looking at a lot of different types of art on Instagram, Youtube & Pinterest. I came across an  Heather Day , an artist that takes nature & transfers is on to a canvas. Her artwork is very expressionistic as she combines colors with textures to create some wonderful works of art. Some techniques that she uses remind me of the way Jackson Pollock used to paint. They both use their enti...

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...

(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 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/

Hey everyone, Today’s blog is mainly going to consist of a video that I wanted to share with you for two reasons: People normally think that you have to spend a significant amount of money on a photoshoot. (T his is completely false, I mean you can but you don’t have too.)  You can use found objects, go to the dollar store or even thrift store. In this video, Lucas Blalock , a New York based photographer, uses dollar store items to create unique compositions & some great photography.   Lucas Blalock's 99¢ Store Still Life's | "New York Close Up" | Art21 If you liked what you read please share this blog by hitting the "Share" button at the bottom of the page & leave a comment on what you would like me to blog about next. I appreciate you; h ope you enjoyed this video & have a great rest of your day. See you next Tuesday!  Website: https://alexstudios.worldsecuresystems.com/ Instagram: @Itsmeale...