I got the pleasure of meeting Cody "Mustachio" Lusby last night while visiting the Art from the Hive Gallery for the monthly Santa Ana Art Walk. I must say Here at Unseen Beauty love meeting and chatting it up with people like Cody. Mustachio started telling me about his "process" and it is a great one I feel. He just gets inspired by whatever he sees and starts going at the canvas (which at this show was an old table top, some street signs, and what looked to be like an old pattern). He really doesn't know what the main feature of the painting will be until he has finished that background and then he just sits back and stares. He waits until he sees something in the painting and then he goes for it. With this he said he can enjoy the painting and the process of painting. I could of sat and stared at His work for hours and found a thousand more things in the background... good work.
One image I am bummed I didn't take a snap shot of was the Mustache labeled wine bottles. As you can tell from the photo above, Mustachio has a mean Mo.
We hope to be doing some collaborations with Mustachio in the near future. Get ready.
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