The happy winner!!!
Originally uploaded by Manny Hernandez

Andreina took home the 3rd place in the Mixed Media category of the Lake Mary Heathrow Festival of the Arts, which started today and goes on until tomorrow, Sunday at 5 pm.

We had the great company of Edgard and Loly late in the day (and Camila and Riley earlier): it meant a lot for us! We are super-happy: this is her first outdoors art festival!!

Check out a slideshow with photos of the booth setup and moments throughout the day.

If you cannot make it tomorrow, you can always visit Evolve Art Studio (Andreina’s web site), through which you can check out her work and order some originals and a number of limited edition fine prints.

I won’t deny it: I am incredibly proud of Andreina, my wife. She is an Experimental Media Artist and this past Thursday, she had her first ever Art Show at Dandelion Communitea Cafe, in Orlando.

You can look into her work in her deviant art page and buy from her through her Etsy Store. The piece above can be purchased there as a print: it’s called gReen.

strongman – a tribute to Bansky

This Photoshop-born stencil art was done by Mat Giordano, a great artist I have the fortune to work with every day.

Check out his work at matgiordano.com

Piece by RIC, from GO (Graffiti Orlando)

I was fortunate enough to run into RIC and his friends from GO (Graffiti Orlando) this past Saturday. They were doing the entire south wall of the Pho Restaurant once more (Mills Ave, close to Colonial -in Orlando, FL). These guys make the Orlando street art scene be on part with the world’s most exciting urban spaces…

 Visit RIC’s Myspace page at myspace.com/ricgraffiti

RG Lacandola came up with this amazing design. It’s now getting picked up for T-Shirt designs and tattoos. Nice job, RG!

I didn’t know until today that the art for the most recent Smashing Pumpkins album, “Zeitgeist”, was the work of Shepard Fairey…

Obey…

I was fortunate enough to run into this sticker of the OBEY campaign, by Shepard Fairey, during a recent trip to South Miami Beach, FL. Shepard Fairey has diabetes, in case you didn’t know.

I work with a Six Foot Giraffe… well, it’s not actually a six-foot tall giraffe, but rather an incredible artist who goes by the monicker Six Foot Giraffe. His name is Kyle Smith and he went to school for Digital Art and Design, here at Full Sail.

Now, he works as an Illustrator in our Publishing Team (the good people that put our Course Materials together). I just LOVE his style: it’s got a very raw and urban feel to it.

See what you think. Check out his work at SixFootGiraffe.com

You can be a lover of graffiti or street art. You can be a sucker for propaganda and posters. Regardless, you are bound to enjoy Supply and Demand. In a coffee-table book format, it takes you through the evolution of the ‘Obey’ concept that made Shepard Fairey a legend in his own right in the world of urban art, from the early days when the figure of Andre The Giant was self-evident to the more recent evolutions of the concept, derived from it and incorporating gradually more Soviet-like design elements. More than just a nice book packed with great illustrations loaded with color, it is a reference of the evolution of an urban artist.

If you happen to be in Miami over the weekend, don’t miss the Art | Basel event taking place. One of the exhibitors in it will be Jose Parla, a Miami native whose work speaks volumes about street art…