1. How did you get into what you do creatively?
It was my upbringing, but also in my genes I like to think. My father was in a rock band in 60's, my mother was a painter. So I grew up drawing, painting and playing with music all the time. Creativity has always just come to me.
2. Do you think that you would be able to teach what you do?
Yes I do, my plans are to return to school and get a PhD in Computer Science then teach at the Professor level, hopefully for a good California School.
3. What inspires you?
Change inspires me, my daughter inspires me, my wife too. I live my life to see what the next change will be and how I can add to the inertia making the change.
4. What do you do to get into your creative zone?
I like to hop on the Caltrain from San Jose to San Francisco, and look at all the people, the mountain tops, then just sit and think.
I come up with my most creative things when my mind is still, but I am in motion.
5. What is your favorite accomplishment?
Living around the world; from Chicago, Miami to NYC, to Australia, Spain, Mexico, Singapore and in the best place in the world...the SF Bay Area.
6. Do you ever create hidden meanings or messages in your work? Explain.
I'll never tell :P
7. Do you enjoy sharing your work with others or do you prefer to go unnoticed? Why?
Depends on what it is, sometimes I create things solely for my own personal use with no care of outside opinion.
8. Do you pay attention to others' strong reactions to your work? Does that affect what you create?
I do pay attention. No, it doesn't affect me in anyway, honestly I don't ask for approval from others on my creativity, I just spit it out there and try to be original.
9. Who do you define as a visionary?
Richard D James aka Aphex Twin, a synth musician in the U.K.
10. If your creative work were edible, what would it taste like?
Tequila ice cream on a hot day in Guadalajara, Mexico....
1. How did you get into what you do creatively?
I have always had a natural artistic ability since a child. I started
off drawing cartoon characters in elementary, then had a little
commercial art training through high school. Most of my recent
artwork is digitally created in the computer which I self taught over
the past 15 years primarily in photoshop. I have always had an
interest in computers and love the endless capabilities you can do
artistically on them, and you save paper!
2. Do you think that you would be able to teach what you do?
I am sure I would be more than able to teach some of the basic
techniques in creating a piece of digital artwork, from how to use
photoshop and several other digital art programs. I do not consider
myself an expert, but I am confident that I would be able to show
someone how to get a start on creating a digital image. You also need
a sense of creativity and talent as well.
3. What inspires you?
I really enjoy nature, as you can probably tell from most of my
renderings. For the most part my artwork is done for various clients,
as well based on readings done by a spiritual medium which brings in a
lot of spiritual symbolism into the artwork. My nature scenes are all
personal for that client and are based on their current "path in
life". I am usually inspired through deep thought, music and
meditation. I also like to create solely to experiment with new
techniques that I see other artists doing around the net. Sometimes I
get my best inspiration in that state of mind right before sleep or
upon awakening, I see images in my minds eye and then write them down
on paper.
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4. What do you do to get into your creative zone?
When I am not procrastinating, I usually sit down and put my mind and
heart into it, shut off all things that may interrupt me and turn on
some peaceful music, or calming music that helps me channel in my
emotions and creativity into the artwork. I believe what you see in
my art comes from inside me, so therefore you are looking at part of
me.
5. What is your favorite accomplishment?
One of my most recent favorites has to be the three crystal pyramids
with the reflection pools. I put a great deal of time into that piece
and find it to be very relaxing and inspiring to look at. Sometimes I
have a hard time believe I created it. There are all kinds of ideas I
have in my head for even better artworks, I just do not know all the
digital techniques to get them done. I would like to learn
airbrushing and to learn to draw the human anatomy, for the most part
my human models are made in a 3d program rather than painted.
6. Do you ever create hidden meanings or messages in your work? Explain.
Once in awhile I do incorporate symbols into the artwork but not too
often as they are done for clients. But all the animals, objects are
all symbolic for that person, such as three trees, or three pyramids,
represents the trinity, or god head, animals represent different
energies, like a bird of prey symbolizes protection. Water symbolizes
healing energy and so forth.
7. Do you enjoy sharing your work with others or do you prefer to go unnoticed? Why?
I love sharing my work because it inspires others. I share it freely
over the net for anyone who wants to use it for non-profit purposes.
8. Do you pay attention to others' strong reactions to your work? Does that affect what you create?
I sometimes get upset with criticism though I do not get too much of
that anymore since my wife left me ;) It has affected before what I
create but not too much except for some minor changes in the artwork.l.
9. Who do you define as a visionary?
This could mean a few different things, but in my opinion a visionary
is someone who uses inspiration and sees their ideas unfold in their
minds eye before creating them on canvas, and their creations usually
have a spiritual message behind them. A visionary may also have the
ability to be empathic, feel the emotions of others as well as convey
these emotions through their artwork so that others may experience
what they are trying to convey.
10. If your creative work were edible, what would it taste like?
Hmm, that is an interesting question. It would probably taste like
gummy worms and marshamallows with all the colors and clouds, Either
that or grass and tree bark ;)
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