I am an Artist.
Native American (Colville) Non-Starving Street Artist LewisOne began his painting career at 11 years old by sneaking his art onto the canals, highways, and buildings of his Los Angeles community with cans of Krylon bought by his friends dad.
“I’ve painted and drawn ever since I can remember, It gives me such peace and joy to be in my own world recording on paper my surroundings. Reconnecting with my Native American heritage has become a calling that fuels my imagination and allows me to learn about my past and have a better view of my future. I am positively challenge to create new projects and open doors to new opportunities to find beauty in the world around me.”
“Growing up as a graffiti artist, I only painted pictures, never got big into strictly tagging. So even when I was caught painting the back of someone’s building: I was always given opportunities and encouraged to continue my artistic skills.” “One day I was painting on the basement walls of a demolished house, when a huge man came at me with a big stick in his hand, fire in his eyes, and a steady growl of profane messages in his voice. When he saw my painting, he dropped his stick, smiled, and his attitude totally changed. He not only allowed me to paint on his property anytime I wanted, but commissioned me to paint a downtown business he owned.”
Since then he has dedicated his life to being creative and making the world a better place through his projects.
“LewisOne has grandmother who would marvel me with stories of our Native Ancestors and Art, I love retelling those stories. So in each series of paintings that is what I do, Each painting has a story: maybe good, maybe not so good.”
From encouraging accounts including getting caught by an animation director vandalizing a back lot at the Warner Brothers lot (who gave him a job) and getting caught by an army recruiter after a four year chase (that lead to a number of full ride scholarships to a achieve a Doctorate Degree), LewisOne decided that his calling in life was to delight the world with his art and redesign the world around him while encouraging other artists to pursue their dreams of financial freedom with their art careers.
Growing up in the inner city I had an attraction to the art of spray paint very young. Still today, the challenges of painting still excite me. A majority of the art I do is either done in spray paint, cut stencils, wax pencil, and random paints I find.
My Graffiti Philosophies…
There is a legal fine line when people think of street art. The legal distinction between permanent graffiti and art is permission, but the topic becomes even more complex regarding impermanent, nondestructive forms of graffiti (yarn bombing, video projection, and street installation).
I like to explore. So nowadays my art is a mix of Graffiti culture, the elements of my upbringing, and my personal experiences from the world around me.
So the question I get asked all the time,
“Do You condone Such acts of Vandalism?”
“You should probably not do it,
however it did get me to where I am today.”
–LewisOne
Today LewisOne can be found painting in his studio and having art shows.
He also works as a Consumer Psychologist & Public Speaker helping artists find consumer triggers to enhance their bottom line to live a non-starving artists life….
…he also invests heavily in fun personal artistic projects heh believes in.
Skillsets:
I program for interactive web, app development, & integrate in:
- JavaScript & JQuery
- HTML5 & CSS3
- WordPress (Custom Designs or Integrated)
- WP Plugin & Theme Creation
- iOS SDK (Objective-C, C++ & CocoaTouch)
- Android SDK (Java)
- PHP, Ajax, Databases
- Flash AS3, Silverlight XAML
- InfusionSoft Management
- Mautic Email Campaigns
- Membership Websites
& integrate into marketing:
- Responsive Web Interactivity
- OpenSource Contributions like Mautic and OpenSoftware
- Making things happen on the web that can’t be done, yet!
- Email Marketing Funneling Concepts
- Landing & Squeeze Pages
- SEO & Social Network Management
- Interactive Menu boards and KIOSK
- Cartooning & Animation
- Illustration
- Game Development in IOS, Android, Atari, Commodore 64 and others.
& with some Marketing Strategies & some Psychological flair
- Customer Profiling
- Marketing Trends
- Public Speaking Coaching
- Consumer Psychology
- Customer Behavior
- Social Marketing
- Color Theory
- Environment Design
- Psychological Triggers & Effects
- PWA Tactics
- Body Language Coaching
& I would not want to forget some things I suck at really bad:
- Speling
- Grammer
- Fixing Computers
- Licking my nose
- Karaoke
- Speaking & Writing the other 18k languages I don’t know
- Cooking
- Dressing Myself
- Remembering Names
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Education graciously funded in part by the Colville Indian Reservation, the Native American College Fund, the Army College Fund / GI Bill, and a Non-Starving art life.