So YOU Wanna Be a Street Artist by TMNK

Leave it to a NOBODY like me to alter the face of street art (wink). Why should it be all about getting up, having YOUR work seen, promoted, discovered in the streets? Where’s the fun for people like YOU? Okay, granted many of you don’t relish going out into the dark of night with wheat…..

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Jerry's -- 11/08/2010

Reflection – Paiting a Portrait Inside my Mind by TMNK

I am now beginning my day the way I often end it, reflecting. Perhaps today I will paint a portrait, perhaps a self-portrait. Not of myself, but of humanity. Her vanity showing, I know she’ll want me to capture her good side. A mirror will be of no use, reflecting only the slowly decaying image…..

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Jerry's -- 12/05/2010

Boat People – A Painting by Nobody

  I was extended an invitation to donate some art for an auction benefiting the survivors of the recent earthquake in Haiti. Of course I was more than happy to contribute my talents, so I didn’t hesitate to accept. The painting I’ve created especially for the fundraiser is entitled Boat People. I wanted to create…..

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Jerry's -- 12/05/2010

Jerry’s Knows the Average Joe by TMNK

  Forgive me if this sounds like an advertisement or some sort of paid endorsement. It’s not. Jerry’s Art Arama is, for this artist, more than a corporate entity that merchandises the art supplies we use. They’re real people who dig art and have made a business from supporting that which they love. I was…..

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Jerry's -- 12/05/2010

TMNK on Being an Artist

We’re all walking through a vast forest, a wilding wilderness. None of us know where we’ll come out. This strange and bewildering journey is no different for the artist; except he/or she chooses to talk to themselves along the way, purposely leaving tracks, drawing on the walls of discovered caves, leaving, arranging bird seeds for…..

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Jerry's -- 12/05/2010