Aside from traditional painting and
tattooing, what made you get into
painting cars/trucks?
Honestly I just really thought it would be a
cool idea to paint something that everyone
could see. Most of the time your paintings
end up going into a house of the person
who bought them. It definitely seems like the
artwork only really gets seen selectively by
the individual who either sees the piece in
the house and asks about it, or by the owners. I have just always felt like what makes
art come to life and actually have an impact on people is people seeing it in the first
place.
The cool thing about making cars into artwork is that so many people get to see it
and comment on it and it can literally be
about anything that you want it to be. In this
case I have always done things that used to
be really dorky when I was a kid and honestly things I used to get picked on for liking.
When I used to play Final Fantasy as a kid
people always used to say, “ what do you
not have any friends? Do you like hang out
in your mothers basement and play video
games all day and never leave the house?”
Which is just a silly misconception but it definitely was not the cool thing to do just like
Star Wars was dorky and comic books were
too. It’s kind of gratifying as an adult to paint
an entire car with Batman and Final Fantasy
and have people come up to you absolutely
loving it.
How many cars have you painted
in total to date?
The Star Wars truck will be my 5th or 6th actual full car that I’ve painted. From time to
time I end up doing a motorcycle tank or
two.
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