This absolutely fascinated me. The artist is Jesse Krimes. (First of all… Krimes?? 😂 I honestly thought he had changed his name.) Jesse served about five years in federal prison on a nonviolent cocaine conviction. While incarcerated, he secretly created this work. Using… 🫟 Prison bed sheets 🫟 New York Times pages 🫟 Hair gel 🫟 A plastic spoon …he transferred newspaper images onto 39 prison bed sheets. Then he drew over them, transforming them into something completely new. When each sheet was finished, it was secretly mailed to friends and family… One bedsheet at a time. The entire project took three years. He never saw all 39 sheets together until AFTER he was released from prison. The title of the work is: Apokaluptein: 16389067 “The Uncovering of Inmate 16389067.” His prison number had literally become his identity. 🫟🫟🫟🫟🫟🫟🫟 Moral of the story… If one of you Dropouts ever ends up in federal prison… We’ve got Sketchy Deliveries. We’ll keep your artwork safe until you get out.

Or at least I want to know more! From your profile I'm thinking you created the fab work in the picture. Will you tell us about it? PUHleeze? I would hesitate to be this pushy but you are showing definite signs of fitting in here very very well... @Donna Holmes

I am attempting another painting for my mom’s birthday. The first one I made, I got so frustrated that I peeled off all the acrylic from canvas. This one I hope will be different. I know people frown about using AI, but I seriously can’t imagine or picture things in my head. So, what I did was tell AI what I wanted in the picture and let them sketch it out. I traced it on to the canvas( which is just as hard as freehanding it) and have started putting down base layers. This is definitely not the final look, although with my skills, it just might be 😂

Today, I want to know something about you. Do you have a business? Post it here. ⬇️ Do you have a community? Give us a JOIN link. ✅ Do you have a website? Maybe an email list? Get it in the comments. 👇🏻 The goal is building a supportive community and getting to know each other. So today, tell me in the comments, what is your thing, your passion. Maybe you have stuff for kids like @Michelle Lau Or something for business like @Michelle Spark Or a community about creative dreamers @Michelle Wood (calling out all the Michelle's today.) Today, tell me your passion and tell us about it AND, put your link to your community in the post. Maybe we can share and support each other. I encourage you to Join each other's communities. Support each other's businesses.

This came straight from my clients/students of the figure drawing class I had this week. They were husband and wife. 💎 💠 💎 💠 💎 💠 💎 💠 Jenna was so pumped all day. She kept saying she didn't mean to sound like a braggart but she was so impressed and confident after that second sketch turned out so great. Thank you for putting this on and making it happen. Everyone really made it a fantastic experience. 💎 💠 💎 💠 💎 💠 💎 💠