Jeffrey Alvarado
“Maestro”

Influence was when I was a young kid and in school. We had art projects and one kid was good for his age, everyone including the teacher taught him the feeling of motive, purpose, and attention. It brought through his emotions. I knew I could do the same and better for myself and at that moment I knew I was feeling passion about art. From there it grew, then I got incarcerated as an 18 year old, I experienced prison art where the mind is settled. A confined artist can bring out art on another level, competition is very high but what set me apart was other artists in prison. Art is most incarcerated artists income, but me, I didn't care as long as I was involved...that was my income. I did different style of art, I love the style of ball point pen. I mastered that in prison and know I see that its new to the outside world, but over time after being out of prison, I experience different ways to enhance my form from being a tattoo artist to woodworking and wood burning. Painting is one of the keys to enhance your art in all forms but I also learned about epoxy and it came all together, so my passion of art like I said before, is like breathing air, I must have it to survive. It's embedded in our DNA, part of our emotions the thought process and it manifests into expression. Then we lay it out on a canvas or in many different forms, thats art and the foundation it comes from.