I love to create art because it creates a story about myself as a Hispanic, my culture from El Salvador and want to share it to the world.
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My favorite type of art is to create is something that’s meaningful to the human world. I love to paint about my heritage as a Latin Hispanic person, culture influences, and the beauty of the outside world and study traditional art from the old master painters. I like a paint the outside world and explore countries and paint my world with from my eyes. But painting is more than just a painting it tells a story about me and how am I placed in the world.
Where do you find inspiration?I find inspiration from myself as a person, my roots from a Spanish country, my identity, and culture. I took inspiration from old master painters in the 16-17-18th century. All of their classical paintings capturing the beauty of the world is what ignites passion in art. I'm also inspired by me being here in this world and bring life onto a canvas. It is my job as an artist to replace endless void and negativity in the world with life, beauty, and create a storytelling before photography.
What would you do with $25,000?I needed it to focus on my studies because I want to be known as a great artist and study for 3-D animation. In addition, to pay for my art college education, materials, and fees and finally save some and I want to advance on my career to study abroad somewhere.
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