I​I was born with a crayon in my hand, not really but that would of been cool.  By the time I was 5 ​​​​​my parents had to clean it off their walls and that is where my love for graffiti started.  If i wasn't drawing on walls i was selling my drawings on scrap pieces of paper to family that came over for coffee on Friday nights for 25 cents each.​

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My first claim to fame (if you can call it that) was winning a competition in first grade for a milk advertisement.  I drew a muscle man lifting milk won first prize and was told I won an inflatable cow.  Later on i was told the cow was for the whole school therefor I got nothing.​

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My second attempt was in third grade, we had to draw something from our city.  Well I did two instead  one was a train the other was a memorial board.  I won first place on this, when the paper came to take our picture a teacher gave my winning piece to another person ​(no names given) for the picture.  I wasn't too happy about this.​

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I then won another which you had to draw fruits and vegetables I won a pencil, I no longer have that pencil.

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Around 1996 my love for graffiti, big cities and hip hop grew larger.  So playing with letter styles, colors and drawing building​s is what I did everyday.  So where to you go to grow bigger?  You find a very large wall and paint it.  I did something that covered 5 feet by 20 feet, while a friend scribbled something on another wall around the corner ( could not paint well).  Next day its in the local paper not mine the scribble and labeled as vandalism at 15 I was proud I got away with it either way.  It was labeled as vandalism but I didn't take it to heart because mine was not in the picture.

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So as years went by and no one understood what I was painting all this graffiti for.  I got comments like " Is this gang related?", "Are you getting in trouble?", "Shouldn't ​you be painting landscapes and barns?", "No one wants this kind of art."  So i tried a little bit of something else but lost all interest for painting and started questioning myself.  But I knew what I loved so I went back to graffiti and took it on to college with me where I received my BA degree in Art and Illustration.  I learned a few things but I was getting bored.  Sometimes they made us take weeks for one painting and I was used to painting fast.  I couldn't wait for the 4 years to be over once it was i was left feeling lost.  I didn't know what to do next.

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For years I cooked at a few different places because i still had to pay bills.  But this was not making me happy my art was being pushed to the back burner and I kept feeling like I was throwing my talent away to pay bills.  I did a few logos, menus, signs, fairs, posters for local companies.  But my art was piling up and I had enough wishing it was time to move on.

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2011 my son LYRIC was born that was now the most happiest I have ever felt and things were hard but by 2012 I knew this time things had to change so I quit my job to do my art full time for my family and I thank them for letting me do this as well as the support from friends.  I started SHORTIEZ INK, its still a work in progress but everything happens in time.​

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So its near end of 2012 and I sell many different items such as canvas, skate decks, used spray cans, old records, vinyl toys, tin cans, old wood, T-shirts, hand drawn stickers, trucker hats and probably more.  I take custom orders and I'm willing to paint anything on anything you just have to ask.  My art extends past graffiti, mediums I use are spray paint and acrylic paint. 

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