Today we’d like to introduce you to Giovanny Dejesus.
Hi Giovanny, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
Well, it was a skill that I acquire from my father when I was a kid. I always knew how to draw. I found it an entertaining answer for someone like me hyperactive with ADHD. Since young always found liking to spray paint, but I was no good at it. I was horrible in fact, so I never pursued it. I always liked seeing people making those big graffiti and stuff like that so I grew up I move from Puerto Rico to Montauk New York, are used to be a seasonal worker when they message to come to visit and we decided to go to New York City.
We’re walking to the street and we see this artist making paintings obviously with spray paint and he was using paint scrapers, he was using lids newspapers a bunch of stuff and so we stop we’re looking at the art blown away a mesmerizing, my sister knew right away what it was. It took me until the end of the painting, to realize what it was. I immediately brought the painting for myself and brought one for my sister when I went back to Puerto Rico, I hang up mine in a few months I’m staring at it and I’m like I probably can do this.
Went to the store to grab a bunch of different colors of spray paint looked up a bunch of videos on YouTube, and learned are used to do festivals in Puerto Rico, later on, moved to Oklahoma and did a few festivals there then in 2021, moved to Orlando and decided to do comicon‘’s and convention and I’m grateful for it loves the fact that every time that I sell a painting. I see people smile and happiness, so I know my art is going to a good home.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
No, it has not been a smooth road building a business on your own is one of the hardest things that you can do but it’s not impossible, determination and a positive mind. Struggle to design the best way to display everything so people can see it. It is always a struggle I always try to make it work with what I have.
Some of my art is stencils; back in the day, I couldn’t afford to have a laser, cutter, or Cricut, so I had to find ways to cut the stencils most of the stuff takes time you know you start affording to buy better quality stuff so you don’t struggle as much as you did at the beginning it’s been a ride and I still got a long way to go
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
Well, I specialize in anime shows and video games I also do artistic sceneries. I’m known for having my paintings glow in the dark. What am I most proud of is that I can bring joy to people.
I don’t think anything sent me a part there are way bigger and more talented spraypaint artists than me. Maybe I took the risk of jumping on that road beating my fears and becoming an artist, took a leap of faith, and did it.
Is there anyone you’d like to thank or give credit to?
Yes, my mom and my sister, they have always been there.
Good times and bad times are also my mentors my mom is a teacher specializing in kids with special needs and my sister. She has a doctorate in social psychology, so they are a big inspiration for me
Contact Info:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spraypaintgio/?hl=en
- Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/SPRAYPAINTGIO30/
Image Credits
Alicia Gonzalez and Amanda I. Aguila
