I travel a lot. It’s where I get my creative inspiration, along with following my passions of surfing and snowboarding. This tends to lead me high into the mountains, or far away into tropical lands. I love it. When I’m at these locations, I snap photos and draw every day. Similar to a tourist walking around and taking photos of monuments, but for me, I look the other way and deep dive into the people and their everyday lives. I’m obsessed with these moments. I walk around taking crappy iPhone photos, along with my Mamiya 6 to capture expressions and movements.
When I do this, I’ll post up on a table, ground, sand, you name it, and pull out my watercolors to capture the moment that just happened. The sketches are fast and a cool brain dump for me to catalog. I’ll later go back to my library of sketches and photos to create a fantastical narrative and composition that gives a feeling of a real place or location. Whether that’s a nostalgic feeling we’ve already been to or a new place we want to visit with friends and family.
I’ve always loved sharing my stories. For this NFT collection, I want to share this adventure with you as it means so much to me. Central America is a special place for me as I go back often to surf and explore. In a way, it’s tradition to revisit this place to find that solitude and a way to learn more about myself.
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The goods
There will be 3 limited edition NFTs available:
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Digital Meets Physical NFT
Sharing is Caring — 1/1 auction — auction reserve $1,500
This will be a 24-hour auction. The winner will receive:
Bonus!
The top 5 bidders on the auction can claim a FREE hand-painted sketch from the ideation phase + an airdrop NFT scanned of that drawing. Wahoo!
About Alimo:
Born and raised in Oregon, Alimo finds himself traveling all over the world to find inspiration to paint. His process relies on an obsession with interacting and interpreting the world around him. This process involves daily watercolor paintings and sketches on location to brain dump ideas, to then polishing compositions on both the computer and canvas.
Alimo is best known for his curvy post-pop imagery, highly saturated colors, vibrant hand-drawn letters, and worlds inhabited by figures arranged on flat tonal surfaces. His line-work blends both drawing and design with inspiration from the ocean to the mountains focusing on people interacting with their everyday selves. The art can typically be seen on paintings, prints, NFTs, murals, and merchandise. Alimo gets inspiration from the outdoors, snowboarding, surfing, exploring, photography, hanging with friends, and anything that provokes creativity.
His work can be seen with clients like Patagonia, Portland Trail Blazers, and 10 Barrel Brewing Co. to name a few. Always on the horizon for new clients that fit his environmental and sustainable ethos to create a new imagination for the world to see.
