::: MIchael JUstino MIchaud ::: I am a member of Artists in Real Time, Inc. and an annual participant of the city-wide Open Studio Hartford. I like working with house paints, spray paints, Sharpie markers, oil markers and oil sticks. These mediums are featured throughout my work. I make whatever I feel at the time. You will see influences of Picasso, Jean Michel Basquiat and Jackson Pollock in the pieces I make. These are my art heroes and I love paying tribute to them. Art is something that I have been doing for as long as I can remember. My materials may have progressed over time from construction paper and crayons to canvases and paint, but the need to create has always been there. I would describe my style as evolving. I add a little and take away a little until I get the canvas to come out the way I want... the way I feel. The works I create are the physical forms of the feelings I have at a specific moment in time. When you purchase a piece of my art you own a part of my soul.