I love creating art that expresses different genres and styles to captivate the audience’s eyes.
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I love creating different kinds of art and always thinking outside the box to showcase my skills. From painting portraits using realism, retro, abstract, and most recently, and Renaissance type theme to my paintings. I love to capture every little detail in a person's face that I am painting. Finding different colors for different shades, highlights, shadows and even the hues that not every eye can see. Not just capturing a person's look, but their essence as well.
Where do you find inspiration?I find inspiration all around from music, movies, my friends and family, looking deep into inanimate objects and sometimes just sitting back watching the sky. I find art in just about everything!
What would you do with $25,000?I would used the $25,000 to open up a school where there are young artists yearning to learn their craft and be able to showcase their skills to the world to make change.
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