[instrumentoffear]

Name:
Kyle Willis

Where are you from?
Boynton Beach, FL

What Art Medium do you specialize in?
Portraiture with Ballpoint Pen

How long have you been doing Art?
Since The Fonz jumped the shark...

Tell us about your Art:
I will let it explain itself...




Where can we see more of your Art?
http://opeyuvadown.wordpress.com/

http://opeyuvadown.deviantart.com/gallery/

[ARTISTOCATS]

Nice work man.

So...

WHERE YOU FROM?

HAVE YOU EXHIBITED ANY WHERE?

Fonz Jumped the Shark about 1977. So you have either been doing art since you were born, or you saw the demise of Happy Days and decided channel your sadness with art, which is it?

You seem to love doing portraits of celebrities, why is that? Do these celebrities have any meaning to you? Also, Have you done the Fonz?

Who are your inspirations?

Do you have any other talents, you'd like to tell us?

[instrumentoffear]

Nice work man.

So...

WHERE YOU FROM?

I was born in Camden NJ, but I grew up in Florida. I currently reside in Boynton Beach.

HAVE YOU EXHIBITED ANY WHERE?

At one time for a few months I had an exhibit at the Key West public Library and a small article in the Key West Newspaper that accompanied my little showing. Just over a month ago I was asked to showcase four of my pieces at a new venue in Davie called Stage 84. Other than that the only place I can rightly say I have exhibited is on the flesh of people I have known in passing who have asked me to sketch them out a tattoo idea.


Fonz Jumped the Shark about 1977. So you have either been doing art since you were born, or you saw the demise of Happy Days and decided channel your sadness with art, which is it?

Not quite. I was born the following year. My statement referred to my youth, for I first saw this episode of Happy Days when I was very young. My older brother was an extremely talented sketch artist. He gave up on his sketches when he went into boot camp for the NAVY and has not drawn since. As a child I found his sketches and started to emulate them and eventually foiund a style of my own. The ballpoint pen came only this year and I feel that it is - at least currently - my niche.


You seem to love doing portraits of celebrities, why is that? Do these celebrities have any meaning to you? Also, Have you done the Fonz?

I like to draw people that many people who see the piece will be able to relate to on some level. I get to show people how I see someone they already know through my eyes. I love seeing the reactions on the faces of my viewers. I draw celebrities that are in movies that I love, sing songs that I sing along to, etcetera, so I can in some way be passionate about what I am drawing. I feel that is an important aspect.

No Fonz yet. I'll keep you posted.

Who are your inspirations?

The first favorite artist (besides my older brother) I had must have been Frank Frazetta. I bought a Molly Hatched album at a flea market because of the album art (which Frazetta painted) and from there I consumed every piece I could find of his. Of course this was long before the internet, so i had to check out books at the library that Frazetta did the illustrations for. I would copy his sketches for hours on end... I was enamored by the movie emulating his style of art "Fire and ice.' Frank Frazetta is and always will be the man in my eyes.

Early on I also grew to love Boris Vallejo. As the years have gone by I became aware of and have been inspired by the likes of H.R. Gieger, Todd McFarlane, Salvadore Dali and M.C. Escher.

Do you have any other talents, you'd like to tell us?

I like to think I am a better writer than I am an artist, so perhaps you'll read something I wrote one day...

[ARTISTOCATS]

Cool. Our next issue comes out in late December.

Perhaps you will like to exhibit in Decembers Auteur Explosion as well.

Be sure to come to Cinema Paradiso on Nov. 21st to hang out with us and watch Underlab Studios next short film master piece - Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell Tale Heart.

In the meantime show us some of your writing skills and post poetry and short stories here:
http://www.wemergemag.com/forums/writers-block/

We are always looking to publish writing pieces as well.

So let's see.

And invite your other artists friends to the forum so we can all vibe.

[instrumentoffear]

Originally Posted by ARTISTOCATS

Cool. Our next issue comes out in late December.

Perhaps you will like to exhibit in Decembers Auteur Explosion as well.

Be sure to come to Cinema Paradiso on Nov. 21st to hang out with us and watch Underlab Studios next short film master piece - Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell Tale Heart.

In the meantime show us some of your writing skills and post poetry and short stories here:
http://www.wemergemag.com/forums/writers-block/

We are always looking to publish writing pieces as well.

So let's see.

And invite your other artists friends to the forum so we can all vibe.

Sounds like a plan.

I'll mark the 21st on on my calendar.

I posted in the forum you suggested. Thanks for everything!

~Kyle

[ARTISTOCATS]

We want to feature you.

[instrumentoffear]

Thank you! I sent you an email with the info you requested.

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