working his artistic magic with a sugar
skull creation made of gunpowder take a
look at this he got here before the show
today around 11:30 11:45 and has been
working look at this thing and and he is
here now nobody sneeze don't even laugh
around it don't breathe tell us about
just kind of how you do this artwork
well it's more but this is type of a
freehand artwork obviously you know I've
done it with salt I don't know what sand
but I like the gun powder because it has
a cool effect at the end you can
actually light it up and it burns right
into the canvas see we're not gonna be
bright I don't want the sprinklers to go
off and then we and now you travel
actually around the world sharing and
showcasing your skills right correct I
do I actually do a barbering as well so
I do a lot of artwork during barbering I
get to do you know teach people how to
do their intricate designs and now with
all of this I get to work with many many
companies even like Nickelodeon and
Disney how cool and look at that I mean
you could see you worked with sand you
were a Jay Leno right there how cool is
that and you've actually been on a few
national television shows as well right
correct I have been I actually also been
on the Ripley's believe in an out book
which that was really cool I thought I
was like well I guess I'm a weirdo
[Laughter]
like this I think you should be in that
book yeah it's cool I think it's cool to
be different you know yeah yeah sure
okay so you still have some finishing
touches to do yeah there's some
finishing touches that I'm doing I'm
doing some flowers and obviously you
know some sugar skulls but yeah I really
love this this the other los Muertos
theme actually I've always liked the the
Mexican tradition and yeah yes and
incorporating that and now this all
started out designing and doing things
from haircuts is that correct correct
whenever you know I've always been
drawing since I was very very young but
with barbering barbering got me back
into doing art we're gonna actually
started Barbara here in the south side
and I'm Florida Street Oh
so that's why I started doing the hair
cuz I started doing Tony Parker that was
our front page of Yahoo Sports the very
next morning that was the first time
that I actually you know was on TV like
you really like a story on me I love it
really cool I know that you're gonna
have the original on the hands - I love
I mean men Vols I mean so much skill and
technique I mean because it's layers of
hair that creates that shading is that
correct correct yeah it's just cutting
definitely that's exactly what it is
layers that is so cool and then God see
you're adding up now do you actually
look at different pieces of historical
art or do you come up with these designs
all on your own
um most of the art work that I do is
mostly like portraits and landscapes so
I do look at images but I like to do
freehand as well this is kind of a
freehand today we we did it freehand so
and were you doing it this way the whole
time you were never in the front you
were doing everything
everything looks great it is possible
but it probably take me twice as long
that's actually wood stain yes
I actually use a solder gun and I burn
images into tortillas oh nice well they
anything can be a canvas right anything
yeah art could be done out of anything
that's my confident if you have
something I mean the four artists
aspiring artists young artist is at home
that want to do what you're doing or are
inspired to do this like what advice do
you have for them I I recommend that
they record it they take pictures of it
and they upload it to social media
social media is like the new way to
expose your artwork so why not is for
free yeah go out there right I of course
a great way to promote yourself you're
headed out right after where to I'm
actually flying to Los Angeles and then
Arizona back to back so yeah so you know
I get to travel for a living now
sometimes it's exhausting but it's
pretty cool because I get to see many
many cultures you know I just came back
from Russia I was in and Columbia
recently I was also in Canada Germany as
well so all of this you know it's just
back to back but it's at the same time
you know I appreciate it because people
are loving what I'm doing and it's
really really cool to see that and
what's the most interesting country that
you've traveled to so far out of all
your journeys um I like Brazil Brazil is
very very it's like a very humble
country and I see young kids even at the
age of eight years old doing hair
designs on hair and they got inspired by
me so it's super cool Wow yeah that's
big that much influence especially on a
global scale that's huge
yes yes most definitely I am really
blessed to to be able to inspire people
around the world that guys thank you so
much for being here and thank you for
giving us this piece of art and you know
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