Great to have you visiting the blog, you are a very special guest, to say the least.

It is such a honor to be a source of inspiration to an artist that is, likewise, a source of inspiration to me.

I have a new post on the Portuguese version of the blog, soon to be translated to English, in which I try to explain the incredible feeling of having my mentors/heroes/friends in the audience while I presented my stuff on the screen. A total inversion of values, and it worked!

Being back at the Academy really made me feel that my whole game had a major upgrade, now I’m into the next level, scoring side by side with the ones I have followed as my personal heroes for more than half of my life.

No words - in Portuguese or in English - can describe this feeling, but it is so good, soooo good.

Thanks for your comment, for your friendship and for your Art.

You are truly admirable, and I am lucky to have you, and all our heroes as friends.

See you soon, hopefully in my hometown!

Cheers!

After all of these years, we get to visit again at the place that started it all. It was truly amazing to catch up with you. Thank you for being such and inspiration. I hope that the next time we meet, it is on your soil, and not so far in the future!

best regards,

Sterling

Thanks for posting your wise and insightful comment. I hope to have you visiting the blog every now and then, and I’ll do my best to keep you interested.

Painting was declared dead as the camera clicked for the first time in the mid 1800’s. That certainly did not happen, so I am of the mind that illustration, as well as all image making will remain a part of humanity. Not because it is a defined importance, but because it is part of our anthropology. Making images is engrained in the deepest, primal regions of our minds. The caves at Lascaux, France prove it.

Having a compliment from you, a friend and a master, means so much to me, and maybe you will never know how important it was to hear from you that my father did a great job in teaching me English. He gave me the 2 things my life as an individual orbits around, English and the passion for drawing.

No more and no less than that.

This makes a full circle to me, and it seems that I have gone out in the real world and I’m doing something worthwhile.

I’ll have the best dreams tonight.

Thanks, Brent!

Nice talking to you again, after so long!

It is great to be here again, and it really doesn’t look like a decade has gone by.

Let’s keep in touch, I’d love to see what you’ve been doing.

Talk to you soon.

All the best for you!