At the age of 30, I almost lost everything to drug addiction. This book chronicles my pursuit to achieve my childhood dream of becoming an artist.
Peter Bragino is a multi-discipline, mixed-media artist, designer, treasure hunter, and soul searcher. No matter the medium, his art has always been a manifestation of his personal spiritual journey and recovery. He shares his vision with the world in the hope of inspiring a deeper connection between you, the viewer, and your own life journey. He makes art to encourage people to live deeply, love fearlessly, and to appreciate this heavenly place called Earth.
After serving in the Marine Corps for five years, he began his artistic career as a freelance airbrush artist in California. He fell deeply in love with the process of creation and quickly moved on to painting on canvas and creating his own visions. Four years to the date of leaving the Marines, while deep in the throes of addiction--and experiencing recurrent suicidal ideations--he was arrested for drug possession and placed into a one-year court appointed rehabilitation program. Upon completion of the program he moved back to New York to study classical drawing and begin his career as a fine artist.
From the age of 30 on, he has spent well over 7,500 hours honing his craft, at least 5,000 of which were spent drawing the human figure from life. From this, he's created over 40 sketchbooks, thousands of drawings, and hundreds of paintings and three-dimensional works.
Message has always trumped medium. Whether through drawing, murals, sculpture, jewelry, or painting he wants the viewer to see through his eyes how beautiful he believes the world is: to appreciate the Sacred Mysteries of Life. He turned struggle into both art and music--both of which saved his life. Most of all he wants you to remember that dreams really can come true if you dedicate yourself fully to their pursuit and maintain the faith to allow them to be born.
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Hey Ya'll,
Here's the next update. I've been working with a Copywriter whom I'd like to introduce to you. Her name is Kate Grasso and she's an incredible writer who is helping me to pull together the text portion of the book. Although I have a lock down on the imagery, I wanted the story part to be just as intuitive and rhythmic as the visuals. I've been working with Kate for a few years now and she's been guiding the writing of multiple offerings that I have. Most of these no one has seen yet but they will be revealed in the future...
I'm reaching out today to say that this week is my final meeting with Kate. We've scripted out 5+ chapters for the book and we're finalizing the final chapter on Weds. I'll be putting all this new story material into the book layout and sending it off to the publisher by the end of the week.
I want to let you know that this is a fairly long process that needs to take it's course. If and when I get approved for publishing through the publisher that I'm trying to work with I'll finally have the ability to set a date for printing. You will all be the first to know when that happens and I'll keep updating as we move through each step..
For today I want to share with you the idea behind the final chapter. This chapter was not initially in the book but through my discovery sessions with Kate we've decided to put a section that details in short order how this journey to draw the human figure has led me into the realm of storytelling. Chapter 4 will get it's name this week but in a sense it's all about storytelling and the future of where I'm taking this craft.
It will outline the graphic novel that I'll be releasing next called "The Sacred Journey". A story about a little girl named Aloura and her quest of self discovery.
Here's one image that will appear at the end of the book. I wanted to share this with you, my inside circle of supporters. Much love and more updates coming soon!!
This image is called "The Queens Tree" -This is the image that sparked this entire story. Hope you enjoy it!!
