I am excited to be able to share my journey here on Steemit. I will be blogging daily and wanted to start with a little more in-depth background on who I am and what I do. I am an award-winning artist that truly has a passion for art, design and all things that are awesome. I also have SMA (Spinal Muscular Atrophy), a progressive neuromuscular disease, and have been wheelchair-bound since age two. I view myself as being "differently abled" rather than "disabled" and I live life to the fullest every day.
As a kid, I would paint and draw traditionally when I had the use of my hands. As I got older and my disease progressed I turned to a computer in order to still create. I quickly became an expert in Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter. I went to art school and graduated valedictorian with a bachelor of fine arts degree. Next, getting hired by a former professor, I joined the corporate world as a commercial graphic designer creating websites and logos. Although the money was awesome, this quickly became a soul-sucking nightmare dealing with clients that thought they had a better artistic vision then I and just wanted the design to "pop more", Regardless of good typography or color theory. After three years of this, I quit to pursue my own artwork and digital painting full-time.
I have since moved on from creating art full-time to owning an art gallery, craft beer bar, music venue, and establishing an entire arts district in South Florida. Future blogs will elaborate on all of that but I will be posting some of my art over the next few weeks and wanted all of you to have a bit of a background as to how it was created.
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