What to expect painting live graffiti at an event.

well the day has come for u to paint live, i would say it easy but there is always issues that always arise, for some reason the event coordinator want to move your setup, the medium that u where going to paint on has changed.

1 . You need to keep cool and collective like you have done it before, even if your dying inside.

2. Be prepared with a back up plan, I use spray paint for my murals the size of the wall or canvas might change, i am so versatile i can change plans in a blink of a moment.

3. If painting outside take into consideration the weather, like wind. I always setup with the wind blowing toward the side as to not hit my canvas  head on.

4. Paint something unique, colorful and amazing, give it your all, don't hold back because they didn't pay u enough or things aren't going your way. Think of it as an audition you never know what CEO is watching or your next client is is in the crowd.

5. Talk to the crowd interact, give them business cards, stickers, flyers to your next show break the ice. People nowadays are to scared to interrupt and miss an opportunity.

6. If painting with other artist, remember u are unique do not imitate innovate show off your unique talents, there been so many time I've been copied, its not even funny, but i stood out because i was the original style master.

Good luck


book me at your next event.
strivewma@yahoo.com

In us we trust.

Google myself to see where my art has traveled, but feel like I have neglected it. I dont want to fail summer so i gotta find impersonation and get to work. Turn the robot on.

About to put Vince on the back burner and let Strive take over.

 

Including getting this blog a jump start and work on my YouTube channel. Plus art has taken me to different places,that people never seen. Gotta be wide awake and make dreams come true. And if you want a custom painting Strivewma@yahoo.com is the email to reach me at. Created over 1,000 paintings about to design a thousand more in the coming year that's the goal and hand pick 50 for a solo show summer 2017. 

Strive one Robots

Strive one

 

T.A.G. aka Tattoos and Graffiti show in San diego California, Amnie, Dex and Strive

I don't know if its fate or just luck we always start an event by carpooling together, this time was no different wake up early and show up early is the motto, after a few stops for dexxx to buy paint and Amnie buy buff, and some food, crack a few jokes and we are on our way. Don't know what to expect since it was my first time at the venue. Big Automotive Warehouse. big thanks to Iph from OFA So this is the recap,

    (Dexxx Patiently waiting for Amnie to finish with the buff)

(Amnie Starting off his Piece)

Most artist start off from left to right, not this little rebel 

(Strive Painting both sides first)

(Dex Starting in the Middle)

  (Amnie setting up the background and letters)

                              (Dexxx getting busy)

                           (Strive setting up the letters)

(Dexxx Finishing up)

                                  (Amnie making it shine)

(Strive dodging falling spray cans but got it done)

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.

Out of the darkness

Out of the darkness

                It was just a regular day as i got off of work, first picture i saw as go on to Instagram. Honestly i didn't know who she was when i first saw the picture, She had transformed her hair, cut away into this short rocker style hair cut, Loved the picture wanted to paint it right of the bat, I know her personally and knew her story of whats going on, Some person had broken her wrist and she seem like she was getting rid of the past and starting new, but life is more complex then the eye meets, Got home around 12:00 pm thought about it again, I said if i don't paint it now i never will, texted asked her to send me the picture earlier no reply, only option was to look at my phone. So here i go again of to my studio to paint in the middle of the night, grabbed my spray paint and set up outside, My studio on a busy main street and the crazy homeless people looking at me like i was crazy. It was dark out under the street lights i painted the background, "Out of the darkness this complex background" was made, just like her story, In the picture she looked elegant, poised, ready to conquer, maybe her own fears, there was a sadness in her eye's but i fail to capture that, its hard to paint sadness when you admire that person,

 "People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in,
their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within"

 Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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.

You could try to be me, It's cool, you could make believe

I recently found, Another graffiti artist with the name "Strive" i thought he never heard about me so i checked out this work, he had copied a sketch, that i made of my home town. he lives no where near San diego, I found it amusing and wasn't mad at all. You could try to be me, It's cool, you could make believe, from birth i have been molded to be "ME" one of a kind, special edition, and I could never be like you" Nature VS Nurture maybe it’s a little of both. My mother has schizophrenia and that make me half crazy, and my street name is Strive "PLEASE TEST ME". I’ve been tested since birth and that gives you a falls sense of security. But who wants to be king of the hill, when He’s the first one in the village that’s killed. That Guttersnipe kid Striveeze

Write it long enough it might Happen

if you got any questions feel free to ask???????

No money more problem that just how it is, but whatever step you take you got to keep it going, at least thats what tell myself, my father just got a mild heart attack and spent a few days in the hospital with him, he's 55, that mean's i got about 30 more years more before I have my first brush with death. Truth is I was more scared than ever, But he just went home today everything went fine with his surgery. Half the time when I make a canvas the money was usually gone before I get it. I got to interact more with younger artist and offer them a hand. Try to mentor them in the right direction, gallery owner don't know much about this street art, when an artist is doing good or when he's doing bad, the hood Where we grew up is like a foreign country to them, how we eat when there no food in the kitchen. I am in it cause i am starving, just like every one else that pretends there not. Keep it real with them and teach them to not sell them self short, Cause a mind is a terrible think to waste, with that said if got any questions feel free to ask." Cause you either fall or grind the rails" with that said i got to get back to painting

ANOTHER YEAR ALMOST GONE

This year seamed to be the hardest year, it seems spray paint prices has gone up. rich geting rich, and the poor learning how to make something out of nothing.It don't take mills to eat meals my dollar doubts it,But i feel that every individual is the architect of his own fortune. so my plan for tommorow it to but my brush upon a canvas till it comes back monumental