I do mural paintings, abstract paintings, I do installation-application paintings, illustration-book, Imagination-fantasy, etc. etc. etc. I’m looking for a job to paint ceramic dishes with different designs. I paint tattoos and book illustrations, I’m looking for such a job, you can help me find such a job.
I am from Albania, I graduated from the Artistic High School branch-Painting, in Shkodër, Albania during the years 1997-2001. In 2001-2005 I graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts-Tirana-Albania-Branch-Painting-Textile. In 2006-2019 I worked as an art teacher – drawing branch in 9-year schools, aged 12-15, I participated in exhibitions where I won 2nd and 3rd prizes.
My name is Dylan Thibert, and I’m a Conceptual Artist and Iconographer. I’ve spent most of my life in Toronto, Canada. I create artwork using acrylic paint primarily. I also experiment with video art, photography and sculpture. I would describe myself as untrained and as an outsider artist. I established an art collective in 2016 under the name “Confessional: an unsafe space.”
Candice Rios is located in New York City, and has more than 20 years of experience in beauty. She is a licensed cosmetologist, licensed cosmetology educator, makeup artist, aromatherapist, and reiki practitioner. You have probably seen her hair and makeup work on television, magazine covers, fashion runways, in print ads, and music videos. Some of the places that have used her artistry are Oprah, Eating Well, Parents, Flanelle, Vulkan, Solis, Connecticut Bride, Clarisma Beauty, Wear This Love Shapewear, PepsiCo, ABC, NBC, CBS, MTV, and VH1.
She has blogged, wrote about beauty, and served as a guest expert for several publications. She’s also been an on-air guest for podcasts, radio, and TV programs. Candice is a firm believer in giving back who volunteered her makeup services to Broadway Bares, and coordinated fundraising events for the MAC AIDS Fund, Safe Horizon, and the American Red Cross. She also spoke out against domestic violence as a member of the Cut it Out program, and the New York Women’s Association. She now volunteers her time as a Lipstick Angel at New York Presbyterian Hospital, and is a member of the Professional Beauty Association.
In 2014 she became a Professional Beauty Association State Captain for New York, and for Connecticut in 2016. She also became a featured professional in the Professional Beauty Association’s “I Am” campaign in American Salon in 2015.
Candice completed her cosmetology education at Roffler School of Hair Design in Connecticut, and is a licensed cosmetologist in Connecticut, California, and New York. She majored in business and finance at the College of Westchester in New York, obtained a private career school teacher’s license from The University of the State of New York in New York City, and attended New York International Reiki Center in New York City as well.
You can visit her at Blush Salon in Westchester County, New York for highlights, haircuts, balayage, and eyebrow service.
Meghann Jordan (owner of 5000 Puppets) is a puppet builder and musician based in Denver, CO. Meghann has been building puppets professionally for ten years. In addition to custom puppets, she also enjoys making puppets for educational purposes. Most recently, she created a line of emotional therapy puppets great for use in play therapy. She also fronts her band, Addie Tonic, and loves to combine her two greatest passions to make fun music videos starring her creations. You can find videos on the Addie Tonic YouTube Page starring the Meghann5k puppet she built with the help of puppet company, Swazzle, out of Los Angeles, CA.
Meghann grew up in Athens, GA surrounded by musicians and raised on the Muppets and Sesame Street. Jim Henson was a huge influence on Meghann and her passion for using puppetry to teach kids in a fun and interactive way. Great writing and the incorporation of music to help kids learn was fascinating. She also loved the cartoon/plushie aspect of the characters. Some of her favorite Muppets growing up included Fozzie Bear, Grover, and Telly Monster. After completing her Bachelor’s in Psychology from the University of Georgia, she decided she wanted to learn how to make her own puppets. She got books and supplies and started figuring it out. She moved to San Francisco, CA in late 2009 in search of like-minded puppet enthusiasts. She found a Muppet-style puppet building workshop taught by Michael Earl (four-time Emmy Award winner and puppeteer for Mr. Snuffleupagus and many other characters on Sesame Street for 30+ years). The first Muppet-style puppet she made, Zenith, was born. At that point, she could barely sew and needed some extra help, but Zenith turned out to be (and still is) one of her favorite characters.
The first commissioned puppets Meghann made were for the Good Computer Kids Podcast- a podcast created by Louisville, KY teacher Russ Hockenbury for his technology class. She made five characters for his project including Good Computer, Drop, Pi-Rat, Vi-Russ, and Lynx. In 2012, Meghann launched her own line of nutrition puppets including songs and videos to help teach kids about the importance of good nutrition. She found friends in Berkeley, CA and joined a puppet community called PuppetPlex. They shared the same passions of teaching important topics through puppetry and music. Through this group, she was commissioned to make three GMO food puppets- Fishy Corn, Fishy Tomato, and Fishy Soybean for the GMO Right to Know campaign.
Sickness many other me….you found him?….not me? not me?……depression hits my heart……why am i so alone?….you found HIM? i’m the one lost….help me, help me, HELP ME PLEASE!
Dark Air love is a drag…..rather be smoking cigarettes….black black lungs…..black black heart…….emptiness, the void, a black hole…where do i find you?….i can’t see a thing….i can’t hear a thing….a can’t FEEL A THING….
Stranded love the world is so empty, nowhere to go, no sign of life…this is a drought no love or water,thirsting for love yearning for life, waiting for someone to help me up,reaching reaching no one,in the depths of this cold i am alone,i walk a thousand miles to nowhere and there i find nothing,i look beyond into the dark of space and i call out, no response…where are you LOVE? i feel so alone,life is so empty without you…again i reach and still thin air,where do i find something that is not there?
Hi everyone! I’m Lawrence, an illustrator/cartoonist from Brooklyn, New York. It’s nice to be invited to this forum. Originally I wanted to be a fine artist when I was in university, but fell in love with entertainment arts as time went by. I love academic figure drawing and was introduced to video game concept art by a friend one day in life drawing class. He looked over my sketchbook and noticed that I had a stylistic tendency to be dramatic and playful in my figures. Ever since then, I gravitated more and more in that direction. For this piece that I chose to showcase, it is an example of my creature design work. In the past, I worked at a small indie video game company based in New York, so a lot of my thought processes involve finding a design based on story briefs and some minor art direction. In the world of concept art, finality is not necessarily critical to a project at large as much as a finished illustration for a publication or book would be. The final result can and often does look like it’s still a work in progress. And this is because concept art is about the ideas, and the potential iterations of those ideas. There is an emphasis on function over form, and while this is important, in a gamers mind, they just want to play a character/creature and feel like the art is a reflection of something relatable and familiar. We all just want to have fun. Having said this, this piece I’m showing is quite the opposite. I’ve always been somewhat drawn to monsters for some reason. The macabre and horrific tend to interest me, because drawing them is again super fun. I feel like it gives me the most amount of creative freedom because it’s a practice in mindful exploration of shape, form, and silhouette through the drawing of skin, flesh, and anatomy. And although I am quite the unpredictable contradiction in that I love to draw beauty, beauty cannot exist without the ugly. They both need to harmoniously exist side by side as is the law of the universe. There is a lot of mystery in creatures and monsters, an unexplained intrigue into the unknown that makes it curious and frightening all at once.
