It has officially been three years since I started this site and boy has it been an evolution!!! From name changes, to style growths, to site layout managements, it has been an incredible experience. This site has certainly gone under many changes, including today's, but the overall goal has remained the same. CREATING!!! And promoting said creation, spreading creation to all of you. Through our interactions at shows and online, I have been able to reach many of you, artists and art-lovers alike, and have been able to either provide creativity into your homes or inspire you to push your own creativity. That, itself, has been an incredible feeling and blessing.
My body of work, online and off, has grown. I started out posting sketches and illustrations I would do at work eventually moving on to full color pieces, larger paintings, live painting shows, gallery shows, books, clothing, and so much more. Over the years my styles have changed and I have explored so much of my passions in art. Street art, digital painting, vector illustrations, design, still fuxing with HTML code here--so much!!! Through these years came Delayed. Sleep. Phaze., Penumbral Silence, and Awake and Movin' Clothing. We ran Art Vibes for about a year, painting and boozin' it up with all our friends and making new ones along the way. You all began to see my love for photography blossom into what it is today, a daily expression of the world around me. You watched me grow from someone with no official following to a household name in San Antonio, to starting it all over again in another city, Phoenix.
So many of you have been there at some point, for whatever amount of time, and I thank you. I have learned so much from ALL of you and it makes me extremely happy that I have grown from it all. To all of you who have bought any of my work, thank you for helping me with the financial means to continue this and keeping more of my day job earnings in my home and fridge and maybe even letting me take a day off from the day job. For all who expressed a love for my creations, thank you. It is always wonderful to hear that the creations that come through me make people happy and bring them joy. To any of you that came to our gallery shows or live painting shows, thank you. Having you there physically made it a lot more fun and allowed me to realized how much I enjoi human interaction and discussion; be it about art or otherwise. To anyone who bought me a drink or some food at these shows, MUCH appreciation for keep the dude satisfied and content. To those of you that gave me wall space and taught me about aerosol, thank you. Street art is a love I hold very dear. To all of you that held my work in galleries or had me perform at your events, thank you for the exposure and fun times. For those of you that told me (or even didn't tell me) that seeing me work at this level inspired them to pick up a brush again, to try something new, or to continue doing what they love at a higher level, thank you. It is great to know that spirit has conveyed that creative message through me to YOU. To ALL of you, for all the reasons above and many, MANY more......
THANK YOU.
Stay Creative,
BLUE731.
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