The Art of Alejandra Gomez
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- A Trail Runner's Blog
- AdventureLisa
- Dirt Diva
- Hence 72
- Jason Jaksetic
- jimbino vegan
- Learning the Landscape
- Manar Laham
- Mountain Man Steve
- nmh2o
- Now-Now-Now
- RIDING THE WIND
- Run more talk less
- Running on the White Line
- Sea Legs Girl
- the world of cherie
- Thomas Elementary Art
- Visit my NEW Blog & Website at www.mirabal.com/
- Where the Hell is Murph ?...
- Wordsmything
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | oil painter, art teacher |
| Location | San Antonio, Texas, United States |
| Introduction | I'm a painter, illustrator and art teacher in San Antonio, Tx. I specialize in colorful, textured, folk stylized portraits in oils on oak but also make stylized ink drawings and I really love to teach art. my website... Gomez Art and Illustration DeviantArt...Gomez Art and Illustration Deviant Art |
| Interests | Art, Illustration, PAINTING, drawing, art education, looking at art, talking about art, your art, comic books, live painting, collaborating with other artists, underground and indie comixs, graphic novels, zines, lowbrow art, bad art, good art, prison art, folk art, children's books, chicano art, native south american art, native american art, indigenous art, hand-lettering, carnival/circus culture and art, tattoo flash, painting on unusual surfaces, self-taught artists, oil painting, reading, teaching art, community art programs, going to museums/galleries, art openings/events, doodling, life drawing, D.I.Y. ethic, bookstores, running esp. on trails, nature, snorkeling, canoeing, yoga, hiking, laughing, hablando Espanol, Anthropology, world cultures, Taoism, traveling, sleeping and dreaming |
| Favorite Music | Minor Threat, Modest Mouse, The Vandals, Rilo Kiley, NOFX, Dead Kennedys, Manu Chao, Mano Negra, Dead Milkmen, Leonard Cohen, MANA, Misfits, Pollysics, Bowie, Marley, The Band, Chambao, Daniel Johnston, Frank Zappa, Tool, NTM, Nellie McKay, New York Dolls, The Stooges, The Cramps, Camera Obscura, The Decemberists, Linda Ronstadt, Lambchop, Ani DiFranco, Deathcab for Cutie, Radiohead, Tom Waits, Magnetic Fields, Neko Case, Buzzcocks, Iggy Pop, Tom Petty, Le Tigre, Oingo Boingo, Queens of the Stone Age, Chicks on Speed, Butthole Surfers, Sonic Youth, Joy Division, Debussy, P.J. Harvey, Melanie, Joni Mitchell, Black Flag, Taj Mahal, Perfect Circle, Mr. Plow, Control Machete, Cafe Tacuba, Rollins Band, Morrissey, The Smiths, Danzig, Circle Jerks, Thrill Kill Cult, Big Boys, MDC, Social Distortion, Jullieta Venegas, Violent Femmes, No Use For a Name, Mason Jennings, Scotty and the Metaphysics, Rachmaninoff, Lila Downs, The Specials |
| Favorite Books | I love to read... Apocalypse Culture, Kahlil Gibrans The Prophet, Saul Williams, Catcher in the Rye, Burroughs, H. S. Thompson, Lord of the Flies, A Confederacy of Dunces, My Side of the Mountain, Hatchet, Cats Eye by Margaret Atwood, artists biographies, The Martian Chronicles, I Never Promised you a Rose Garden, Cut, The Teachings of Don Juan, Bhagavad-Gita, So Far From God, Child of God, Cosmic Consciousness, Stranger on Earth, Juxtapoz Magazine, Post Office, Factotum, Ham on Rye, Pulp, The Days Run Away like Wild Horses over the Hills, anything by Bukowski, Sula, The Bluest Eye, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, anything by Cormac McCarthy or Toni Morrison, Ana Castillo, Love and Rockets, Dori Stories, Last Gasp Comics and Fantagraphics, The Archies, Into the Wild, Calvin and Hobbes, The Tao of Teaching |