Matthew Nishii
www.instagram.com/mnishii19/
Profile
Whimsical art works are inspired by a passion for animals. Can paint or copy any style desired and contribute personality, spirit, and humor to the pieces. I have a very strong artistic background in clay, painting and design since childhood. When working on projects I get mesmerized within the piece and become a part of that world that it depicts and translate the story of the piece within my work.
Sample photos are painted with acrylic on plaster, as well as low fire colors on clay. I would very much like to sharpen my skills and learn more. Hope to hear from you soon.
Employment
Freelance commissioned art (1998- current)
- Painted murals with unique character designs of monsters and other animals computer lab mural in a youth drop in center, bathroom which had a seascape surrounding, playroom with a happy cartoon setting, cubby hole, and laundry room.
- Painted personal dog portrait
- Drew portraits of famous people
- Created large paintings of fictitious characters
- Sketched political cartoons
- Introduced various techniques and art
Education
Laguna College of Art and Design
Graduated with Bachelor's in Animation and Illustration
June 2007
2222 Laguna Canyon Road
Laguna Beach, CA 92651-1136
(949) 376-6000
Orange Coast College
Graduated with Associate of Arts
June 2001
2701 Fairview Road
Costa Mesa, CA 92626-5561
(714) 432-0202
Skills
Applications
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft Word, Works with both Mac Osx and Windows
Artistic Styles
Realism, pointillism, abstract, stippling, cartooning, anime style, caricatures, portraits, murals, comics, digital art, logo design
Art Mediums
Acrylic paint, oil paints, clay, chalk pastels, oil pastels, gouache, charcoal, pen and ink, water color
Accomplishments
- Gallery artwork at the UCC church in Long Beach May 1,2010
- Gallery displayed at events such as Irvine Fine Art Center juried All Media show (November 20, 2009 - January 16,2010)
- The Artery gallery 2008
- Orange Coast College sculpture gallery. Most of the figures were studies of negative and positive space
- Community service club in Orange Coast College, Circle K from 1998 to 2001
- Published cartoons that were political and non political in the Coast Report from Orange Coast College in year 2001
- Blade pg 72 10/10/02
- FTM newsletter Jan 2001
- Under Construction issue #13 2000
- Leadership award for leading Art Night at the Orange County Youth Drop in Center 6/18/03
- Bridge Magazine from Japan 7/15/06 title "Being Me" page 21
- Lulea newspaper from Sweden pg 22 5/29/08
- Daily Titan newspaper 10/10/07
- Serve Magazine from Toronto 2008
- Trans giving 2/14/04 2/18/06
- Transgressive Transactions 10/5/04
- Self published a comic Transe-generation 2001, 2006, 2007, 2010
- Trans Unity 2001, and 2010 art Gallery