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Strive One The HardCore

Strive-one Imperial Beach Ca. 1/20/2015

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Modern Monroe

I was up last night and my mind wonders in all directions And Andy Warhol wrote this about Art


"You take some chocolate...
 and you take two pieces of bread...and you put the candy 
in the middle and you make a sandwich of it.
 and that would be cake"
                                  Andy Warhol

So I stayed up wondering who is today's Marilyn Monroe,  In my opinion I  came to a conclusion. whats one of the most iconic person in modern day, That has the same characteristics as the great Marlyn Monroe,

 Title: Modern Monroe 

By Vincent "Strive One" Quitugua

 If this is the case, I am not wishing Kanye marriage any bad ill, but hopefully Kim Kardashian wont take the same route with countless marriages. Her image alone is a symbol of American culture. And if art is ten years behind then in ten years from now you will know what I am talking about. 

The HardCore

Allow me to re-introduce myself MY name is STRIVE!!!

I started of young like any teenager the confidence and arrogance of thinking you know everything, I wanted to paint with the artist that inspired and amazed me growing up, I was taught and guided by what I could only call the “DR. DRE” of the San Diego graffiti scene, JOKES157, I am going to say “Amnie” would be Eminem, these two have been some of my greatest influences, painted alongside with both. Along with my own drive to never quit created Strive One, But 2013 wasn’t the greatest year for me, I went through a difficult time, let’s just say I drew allot of broken hearts, I have no regrets, did everything to a T, I could say I tried. But “I AM BACK”.  There were days I didn’t feel like painting trapped in my own nocturnal thoughts. But my alter ego strive pulled me back to reality, I remembered that  I paint canvases fast with passion, I try to impress myself in each one and I am a tough critic, I don’t sketch things out, if I do sketch it’s for fun.  On the back burner I always have at least 5 canvases being created. I just want to point at a canvas and say that’s a Strive. Still racing Death, even when I party or go out it’s with a purpose; DJ blend and DJ caffeine have a Strive canvas, The only thing that could stop me is me,  I Apologize if I was late in delivering my Canvases , I don’t have an  excuse, I learned and continue to learn. I refuse to quit or stop; I have 600 canvases in different homes, countless hours of practice and STILL FEEL LIKE THIS IS THE BEGINNING,  I kill strive over and over, only to build him better. MOVING forward and Leaving the past, but remembering the mistake and not repeating them    

 

I know my art is just a drop in the ocean.

One of my custom orders "Never Bow Down

I saw on yahoo that the worst degree to get was in Arts, good thing I didn’t get a degree, practiced hands on, every day for; I don’t even know how many days. It’s tough I guess, if you don’t eat sleep and breathe it. Sometimes, I think of something and I paint it before I forget. Classify it as inspiration. I call it dedication. I do it because I LOVE to do it. Sometimes it pays the bills yes and sometimes it pays my nights out, But mostly it pays my art supplies to keep going and keep moving, I believe a true artist will never say “I used to do art”. I know my art is just a drop in the ocean, but I do it anyways. Hoping it creates a small puddle, for you to stumble across my art. What legacy will I leave if I get a 9 to 5 job go home and watch TV.  Sounds boring to me, and a little dead inside, if you ask me.  Explaining to my kids 40 years from now "should've, could've, would've, done this. I don’t call it a hobby; I don’t call it a career, more an addiction. There’s worst thing I could be addicted to.

I'm from where a child's future's in the streets with the bums Because it's hard to become something so unique where I'm from.

Can't stop the hustle

Can't stop the hustle

Can't stop the hustle

It's the beginning but its feeling like the last stand, had to do three times in a row, just to remind you. One of a kind. Blood, sweat, and time i invest. Life is naturally hell you have to work to put a smile on. 

Out of a strom, beauty comes out in from of a snow flake.

Never burn a snowflake, it won't be the same if you tried.

Out of the cold a snowflake is created, but what happens when you try to capture it. It starts to melt and they say no two snow flakes are the same. Beautiful and unique, but if you add a flame it turns in to water and that water might extinguish the flame.Those drops turn in to a stream, that stream turns in to a creek, that creek turns in to a river and you might drown it the flood. DON'T mess with a snow flake because as nice as it may seem you only hear the avalanche once its too late. People say i am nice but don't miss interpret it as a weakness, I fall into peoples lives like snowflakes, but just as fast i could disappear and, like tears; they are made of water............. turned cold.

Stuck on Hearts, Hearts, Hearts, Hearts, Hearts, you got what? Heart.

Title: Self Portrait

Title: Death of the heart

Title: Can't turn evil

Title: Innocent

Title: Building and repairing but still sick

That's strive, that's real, that's graffiti, I am about mine, that ain't talk, that's fact's, That's too bad, That's fucked up, you fell off, that's so sad, that ain't mine, that's your problem, That's Your life, That's your job, My heart that won't budge, Eat Your Heart Out, BUT YOU STARVE!!! .

"If you ain't living for the day,It safe to say your wasting time"

Sorry as a graffiti writer i am a little hood, but as an artist am a little sophisticated, but as a human i make mistakes. I still have a lot to learn, I want to create art that will make new york graffiti writer want be from the west, trying to push my limits in the next months to come. Strive got next, looking for galleries. Give me any art job and i will strive at it. Married to this art and its having contractions. Coming to a wall near you.

Long time coming and i am Not stopping

First time i went out and paint rolled by myself, had some high heat engine paint with stock tips, and pocket lint no cash for buff. Worst paint to work with, And the experience of a new toy in the game. Thinking "I got this" Went under the the bridge and could still smell the tree's and the floor laced with old spray cans from kings of the city that had painted before me, brought my raggedy old sketch book, I could still remember the color scheme blue black and yellow, I walked and looked for a spot not to go over anyone. The paint came out watery and cheap yellow paint dripped everywhere. But i finished, Almost a decade later and I still haven't finished and with the same motivation of a new kid in the game, STILL FEEL LIKE I'M barely getting started.

Angel of Death

Medium: water color on paper

Write it long enough it might Happen

Cityscape

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor, to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.

Art

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.