About Me
My Background
Hola! Y Bievenidos! Thank you for visiting my page. My name is Miguel Hernandez. I’m originally from Los Angeles and have been living in Las Vegas, Nevada for the last 22 years. It’s home! A self-proclaimed Art School drop-out, I worked every job in restaurant and customer service until I was lucky enough to pursue a career as the first full-time resident artist for Zappos.com. Aside from being a full-time creator we were also provided resources, classes, workshops and experiences to assist with managing and sustaining roles such as mine and many others alike. Since then, I‘ve started a website to provide newly hand painted canvas artworks and murals through amazing opportunities and connections I’ve made.
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My creative Inspiration
My creative inspiration comes from being able to create, color and enjoy the moments and beauty still among us. I take lots, I mean lots of pictures of landscapes, any scenery, flowers, and just anything that inspires me! I’m always sketching, composing and preparing for my next creative adventures. I generally love working on large scale art such as murals. I‘ve also make time for smaller works for my website and vending opportunities.
One of my favorite things to paint are flowers. I love painting it’s shapes, crevice, depths, colors and sizes. There’s so many lines, folds, and layers that go unseen. I try to capture and enhance as many of those visuals in paintings. They‘re very symbolic in representing countries, cultures and speak the gestures that we try to say without using any words. They last for as long as we need them and they leave us.
Art is very sacred to me and I value it very much. I’m very passionate about it. I appreciate great skill, talent and the endurance an artist taps into and focuses on. It’s a great feeling to see visually the artistic power in any work, but i especially love it in murals. I love experimenting and mixing mediums to create new visuals, ideas and worlds. I also challenge myself to be better, finer and faster with as many mediums I can get my hands on. I try to be the best that I can be and try to master my crafts within. There’s still some beauty left in the world and my purpose in life is to always translate it through art.