tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40750770603672378772024-03-12T16:35:50.193-07:00Young Artists of AnokaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10301346438162630495noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4075077060367237877.post-89544710026916875842016-08-15T14:11:00.002-07:002016-08-15T14:11:17.734-07:002016 Project Updates<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hello Everyone,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I wanted to give an update on our 2016 projects we have planned. We have completed our first project, 2nd Annual Chalk Art during the Anoka RiverFest! It was a great success and we are excited to move forward with other projects.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Unfortunately, I was late in getting details wrapped up before the end of the school year and have had a difficult time reaching student artists. Therefore we do not have enough kids to complete any of the projects at this time. We are waiting for school to be back in session and hope that the school teachers will be able to help drum up excitement and get kids signed up ASAP!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Therefore, the deadlines have been moved to September 10th. As you know...we live in Minnesota and weather is a HUGE factor for our projects. Coming into September, we are running out of nice weather! So we may have a project or two redirected to next spring.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Our main projects we would like to see done are:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Snowplow Shovel Painting (All Ages)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Halloween Wall Contest (High School)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Paper Mache Pumpkins for the Stamp Release (Everyone!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Other projects that may get done are:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Wall at Aquatic Center (Elementary kids)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Wall by Dam (Middle School)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you have a neighborhood of kids, have them all sign up together! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Please print off all applications on the website: http://www.AnokaArt.com </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">go to current projects and pick the projects you would like to participate in. Each application is on the project page.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">By August 25th I will have dates for all these projects.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you have questions please contact me: Jenshoemaker72@gmail.com</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10301346438162630495noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4075077060367237877.post-38138012556062597722016-08-15T13:54:00.000-07:002016-08-15T13:54:15.336-07:00Shawn McCann: Twin Cities Mural Artists<div>
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<span style="color: #9d1811;">Shawn McCann grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota and currently a resident of Crystal, MN. I have found a lot of inspiration in his work around the Twin Cities and around the country. I hope you find inspiration from his as well!</span></div>
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How did you get into doing murals?</div>
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<span style="color: #9d1811;">I actually fell into mural painting from my chalk street painting. People started asking if I could create permanent images rather than temporary images and simply went from Chalk to paint. Now, more and more of my work is shifting to murals and permanent images.</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #9d1811;">Yes, I went and graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design with a BFA. I first started painting and drawing as a child and always knew I wanted to be an artist, I just didn't know what that was. When I went to MCAD, I knew I found my art family and went into the illustration program. When I graduated, I did commercial type illustrations and also started my career as a children's book illustrator, which I still do as well. I have been fortunate to have illustrated 25 books along with the many street painting, murals, installations and such that I have done the last 14 years since graduation</span></div>
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What inspires your artwork? </div>
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<span style="color: #9d1811;">All of my friends who are creative people, musicians, artists, writers, and seekers of thought always inspire me to keep pushing the envelope and seeing where this crazy world of art will lead. Its not always easy and art can be such and up and down profession, but when you are surrounded by people that on a daily basis keep pushing you to be the best you can be, it is great.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #9d1811;">Absolutely. I don't know many people who don't get the mental block here and there. When it happens, sometimes its just a matter of visiting with a creative friend, going to a museum or looking thru my art books I have collected over the years to get the juices flowing again.</span></div>
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What is your favorite medium to use? </div>
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<span style="color: #9d1811;">I would say my favorite medium to use is one I don't get a chance to often to use, Oil Paint. I love the richness and the succulent things you can do with oil paintings. Unfortunately, most of the projects I do don't allow for the use of oil paints or it wouldn't fit right</span></div>
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Which different ways to you feature your artwork? Do you have a favorite way to show your artwork such as murals on walls, canvas, prints?</div>
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<span style="color: #9d1811;">The different ways in which my art is seen is thru; Children's books, installations like the Pop Up Park, Murals both interior and exterior, temporary art such as street paintings, and also with fine art. One of my favorite art forms is thru street painting with chalk. It is a process that you get to interact with people that come by and its ephemeral quality gives a urgency to enjoy it while its there. </span> </div>
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<span style="color: #9d1811;">The different avenues include traditional methods with mailers, postcards, in person meetings and reviews, online marketing, online portfolio sites,, and a personal site</span></div>
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<span style="color: #9d1811;">The biggest lesson is don't be afraid to fail. You are never going to know everything or be perfect. When things don't go our way, you learn from those mistakes. Also, creating on the edge sometimes gives your work more importance because you are pushing those boundaries a little more. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #9d1811;">I would keep practicing as much as you can. Don't worry about mistakes or getting it perfect right away. You learn as you do. Also, it is vital to keep an eye and ear out for when others offer critiques and thoughts on how to become better at what you do. None of us are completely self made and owe a lot of our success to the richness in our lives that influence what we do.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #9d1811;">Oh boy, I could do a mile long list on this one. Ill keep it to a few projects. Currently, I am working on a large scale mural at the FreeWheel Cycle store on the West Bank. It should be around a 5 week project. Scattered throughout the summer also include street paintings for the 4th of July celebration in Eden Prairie, Hastings Rivertown days, A trip to St. Joe, Michigan for a street painting festival, a street painting image for the new Vikings stadium launch, and other mural projects for the likes of Boom Island Brewing, The Bad Waitress, Pimento Jamaican Kitchen, etc. </span></div>
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Do you have a favorite memory that has to do with your art? Maybe someone you met, a place you went or story?</div>
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<span style="color: #9d1811;">One of my favorite memories/moments was when I was honored to be included in a lineup of my mentors and heroes in the children's book industry. I was fortunate to be featured for 2 straight years at the LA Times Festival of Books Children's Book stage and got to be in the same lineup as Judy Bloom, RL Stine, Mo Willems and more. To go up on that stage and be projected by jumbotron to thousands of people was an amazing experience</span></div>
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<span style="color: #9d1811;">A few select projects and such include being a part of an international team of muralists that created 15 murals in Macua, China, creating a large scale mural at IIT Bombay, India for Techfest, being a featured street painter at the Wilhelmshaven International Street Art Festival, being a recipient of 2 National Endowment for the Arts Mural Projects and many many more to name. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #9d1811;">I would say my style is full of color and movement. I love the ability to create art that makes the viewer take a second look. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #9d1811;">Biggest misconception is that it is a piece of cake to slap paint on the wall or be an artist. I liken it to working 2 full time jobs all the time! You always need to be working in the moment and also in the future for securing future work</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">What is your favorite thing about being an artist?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #9d1811;">The freedom to create and paint projects that I want to be apart of. I don't know if I could go back to working in an office or a cubicle. I love what I do too much</span></div>
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<span style="color: #9d1811;">No, I am a full time artist </span></div>
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<span style="color: #9d1811;">I would say that I have grown to be a smarter artists. Working on things that work for me and also being more direct and approach it with more confidence. I also have learned many tricks and techniques to make things go quicker and produce better results</span></div>
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<span style="color: #9d1811;">Yes, too many to list. Already booking into late 2017 and 2018</span></div>
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Saturday, July 9th, 2016</div>
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<br /><strong style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Where:</strong> Behind Anoka City Hall along Rum River, Downtown Anoka<br />
<br /><strong style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Details: </strong>Sign up early to get a space.! <a href="http://www.youngartistsofanoka.org/2016-sidewalk-chalk-project.html" target="_blank">Click to Register</a><br />
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Sponsored by the Anoka Chamber of Commerce. </div>
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The day of the event, chalk will be available from 10am-2pm. Please allow yourself enough time to do your artwork. </div>
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Here are a few pictures from last years 1st Chalk Art Project.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10301346438162630495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4075077060367237877.post-83345155272019189392016-04-21T11:58:00.001-07:002016-04-21T12:17:18.829-07:001 Year Anniversary!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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We are celebrating our 1 year anniversary of Young Artists of Anoka! </div>
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One year ago, we were planning for our first big project, Windows of Time, down in the walking tunnel. Needless to say...it was a HUGE hit and everyone has loved it! Residents, City workers, visitors...everyone has commented on how much they love it!</div>
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<b>What did we accomplish last year?</b></div>
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- Windows of Time Tunnel Project (42 Kids participated)</div>
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- Sidewalk Chalk Art during RiverFest (filled almost all spots)</div>
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- Halloween 8x8 Art Project (over 50 entries!)</div>
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- Halloween Window Decorating at Salon Eleven </div>
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So this year, we have even more great projects in the works!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sean and Myself after a long 2 days of graffiti painting as a surprise for the ribbon cutting ceremony.</td></tr>
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- Aquatic Center Wall ( Elementary Kids)</div>
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- Snow plows shovels (All Kids)</div>
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- Ramp wall by Tunnel (High School) This will be a contest for Halloween.</div>
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- Capture Anoka (All Kids) Photography, drawing, painting</div>
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- Sidewalk Chalk Art (All Kids) during RiverFest in July</div>
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- Halloween Art project (All Kids) in the Fall</div>
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- Possibly a Tennis Wall Painting</div>
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- Possibly Halloween Window Decorating</div>
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I'm so proud of all the kids that have participated and enjoyed so much getting to know you and your families! We are out to make Anoka an Art community! Lets show them what we are made of! </div>
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<b>Who Can Be a Part of Young Artists of Anoka?</b></div>
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All Students who go to a school that will attend or Do attend Anoka High School are welcome! Including St. Steven's Students.</div>
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visit the website www.AnokaArt.com </div>
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our new blog http://youngartistsofanoka.blogspot.com/ </div>
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<b>SPONSORS: </b> We are always looking for sponsors! It can be a family, business or individual! info is on www.AnokaArt.com</div>
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Last evening I had just finished a meeting at City Hall and was walking near the Dam and Tunnel where we did the paintings last summer. I noticed a young lady setting her backpack down on a bench and holding a hoop. I suddenly had a flashback to last fall, when a video had been posted of a girl doing this beautiful hula hoop dancing in our beautifully painted tunnel. <br />
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I walked up to her and asked if it was her and indeed it was. Her name is Kenzie...I don't know anything else about her. I introduced myself as the founder of Young Artists of Anoka and that I had put the tunnel project together. I think we were both so excited to meet each other. I loved the video I had seen of her hula hoop dancing last fall, it was so beautiful and that the tunnel had inspired her to be creative and free! She was so excited because she and her friends love the tunnel! <br />
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<span class="im" style="color: #500050;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">On our recent trip to Tulum, Mexico in April, we came across a mural being painting in the downtown area on the side of a building. As we walked by, we noticed the paint containers along the wall and realized we were seeing a work of art in creation. Near by, taking a break from the hot Mexico sun in the shade having a cold drink was the artist, or so we assumed. (being covered in paint was a dead give away!)</span></span></div>
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<span class="im" style="color: #500050;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> The next day we wandered into a local shop and found a print that we liked. My husband, Scott, chatted with the shop owner about who the artist was and if she were local. We got a background story and realized it was the same artist we had seen in town. </span></span></div>
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<span class="im" style="color: #500050;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I knew that I had to interview her and share her story to inspire our young artists in Anoka, Mn.</span></span></div>
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<span class="im" style="color: #500050;">~ I'm from England but ended up in Mexico on a backpacking trip 9 years ago and never left.<br /></span></div>
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<span class="im" style="color: #500050;"><b>Do you have a background in art and how did you end up an artist?</b></span></div>
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<span class="im" style="color: #500050;">~ </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Both my parents are artists and I have a BA Honors in illustration. I've been into art for as long as I remember. Growing up with both my parents being artists, I don't remember ever not being into art. </span></div>
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<span class="im" style="color: #500050;"><b>What inspires your artwork? </b></span>~ Anything really... mostly color, light, shadows, and pattern. The human figure. Sometimes I'm just talking to someone and I like the way the light hits their face, or the way they are holding themselves and I suddenly think...wow that would make a good painting<br /></div>
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<span class="im" style="color: #500050;"><b>Do you get artist block or ups and downs with your creativity?</b></span>~ Not so much anymore. I feel like the more I paint the more I can't stop. I am fortunate enough that I make my living doing this so I do it all the time. In the past, when I had a part time job, it was hard sometime to be always motivated to paint if I was tired from my other job, but it definitely relates to being happy. Painting makes me happy, but I also need to be happy to paint. If something is bringing me down, or if something is on my mind it's hard to focus and stay motivated in painting.<br /></div>
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<span class="im" style="color: #500050;"><b>What is your favorite medium to use? </b></span>~ Acrylic. I have recently been inspired to start getting into oils, I really don't have much practice in it and want to start playing with it.<br /></div>
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<span class="im" style="color: #500050;"><b>Which different ways do you feature your artwork? Do you have a favorite way to show your artwork such as murals on walls, canvas, prints?</b></span>~ have a lot of my work on prints which I sell in different stores which is a good steady source of income. I love painting on canvas, I don't like painting on wood; it doesn't absorb the paint well. I absolutely love to paint on walls in the street mostly. I started painting murals a couple years in the streets. There is nothing more satisfying than seeing your own work massive in the streets for everyone to see.<br /></div>
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<span class="im" style="color: #500050;"><b>What avenues have you used to promote your artwork?</b></span>~ Mostly I use Instagram and Facebook. Such great advertising tools, I always post my work there and through that I have met many clients. And just from painting in the street, leaving my name underneath all my murals allows people to find me, again through Instagram or Facebook.<br /></div>
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<span class="im" style="color: #500050;"><b>What is the most important lesson you have learned as an artist?</b></span>~ Never stop painting.<br /></div>
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<span class="im" style="color: #500050;"><b>What advice would you give to a young artist?</b></span>~ Again, never stop painting. You get better and better the more you paint. Practice practice practice</div>
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~ I just finished a project called "Tulum Limpio" (Which means Clean Tulum) A group of us painting a bunch of murals to raise awareness for the accumulating trash problem we have here in Tulum. Right now I am working on a painting for a local coffee shop.<br /></div>
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<span class="im" style="color: #500050;"><b>Do you have a favorite memory that has to do with your art? Maybe someone you met, a place you went or story?</b></span>~ Yes, my father. He is a fantastic painter. I remember sitting on his lap and him explaining to me how perspective works by drawing a railroad track diminishing into the distance. I remember when he explained to me negative space and drew a woman's arm resting on her hip and drew the space within her arm and her body. I remember going to life drawing classes with him when I was 8 and I remember going out with him into the country side in the south of France (where I grew up) with his easel and canvas and sitting there painting and he taught me about how to measure distances by holding his arm out with the pencil and closing one eye.<br /></div>
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<span class="im" style="color: #500050;"><b>What other projects have you done?</b></span>~ Well, I've done quite a few, with regards to mural work within hotels or restaurants and homes. I've sold lots of paintings and done many commissions. But projects in the town; I was involved in a mural festival in Tulum just a year and a half ago, which definitely was the start of the mural boom in Tulum. Since then, artists from all over the world have been coming here and adding their art to the walls. I have also been involved in a live painting event at a hotel on the beach with a group of other painters, I've also had a few shows where I've been able to display my work in local restaurants.<br /></div>
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<b>Describe your style.</b><br />~ Hmmm... I never really know the answer to this question. I guess it's pretty illustrative and also realistic, always figurative. But it can also be surrealistic when I paint animal heads on human bodies.<br /></div>
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<span class="im" style="color: #500050;"><b>What is the biggest misconception of being an artist?</b></span>~ That we are lazy, distracted and messy and like to suffer. I feel I am definitely quite the opposite.<br /></div>
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<span class="im" style="color: #500050;"><b>What is your favorite thing about being an artist?</b></span>~ Well I'm doing what I love to do every day, it's my passion. <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">I am extremely touched and honored that people want to buy and put my art in their homes or businesses. It's such an overwhelming feeling seeing my work around the town and so grateful to hear how clients tell me how a piece I created makes them so happy. I also like</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> that </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">I set my own hours, I can work as late or as early as I want. </span></div>
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<span class="im" style="color: #500050;"><b>Do you have a job outside of being an artist?</b></span>~ No, this has only been of the past 2 years where I've been completely self sufficient from my painting. I worked in the service industry as a waitress or bartender for many years.<br /></div>
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<span class="im" style="color: #500050;"><b>Do you have other projects in the works?</b></span>~ Right now I am working on a couple commissioned paintings for a local coffee shop.<br /></div>
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<span class="im" style="color: #500050;"><b>What would be your dream project?</b></span>~ I have been dreaming about painting a gigantic mural. But have been feeling a little apprehensive as I've never done anything that big, but this will be manifesting itself in the next few weeks. A painter friend of mine came to me not too long ago, and asked me if I would be interested in collaborating with her and painting the side of a building with her. The building is 3 and a half stories big, we will need scaffolding and a lot of paint! </div>
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In conclusion, I think it is safe to say that Emma has got it going on! Inspiring other artists and being inspired by the world around her. I wish I had stopped that day in Tulum to meet her in person...I guess I will just have to visit Tulum again soon! </div>
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