I started using my artistic signature around maybe 2018 when hashtags started being used on Instagram. Unlike the common belief that artists love to sign their name on their art, I didn’t do so too much and still don’t sign most of my artwork. People usually have to ask me to sign my name typically. Sometimes I do it on my own. Around 2018 I was airbrushing a Houston Skating Rink and the owner kept asking me to sign my art. So I started signing it in such a way that I thought someone who uses hashtags would understand and do a search. It was not so commonly used and recognized by phones at that time. I’ve been ahead of the curve many times as an Entrepreneur Custom Airbrush Artist since 16 years old.

I started a Facebook account before Instagram came out, using it for business before Facebook Business was thought of. To be unique but still recognized I put my name Alex-Airbrush and last name Luna. Facebook took my account and made me a public figure with a public figure account and from there the name began. When I created an account on Instagram, I was not allowed to use a dash, I believe. And when the hashtags came out, there was another person using #AlexAirbrush. So instead of causing confusing, I used my entire Instagram name. Ha Ha Ha HAHAHA #AlexAirbrush LOL just kidding, I am sure the other one is a great artist with a great choice of name.

That is the story behind my name when it first started in the thriving years of my airbrush career. I had an airbrush storefront inside Pasadena Town Square Mall, a weekend gig at different events in different cities and even G-Rated Magazine was making featured appearances in Car Shows at that time. So we had many projects soaring and life was always BUSY!! Sometimes life was too busy going too fast trying to earn every penny to give to my daughter. But sometimes I didn’t make time for her, even though she was right next to me many nights as I worked late painting shirts getting work completed so customers would be content in the morning for my cashiers because I was working for a corporation doing drafting. BUSY BUSY. So I sing the verse on my song just like I lived it on Capture Time with ICT – Makavenna.

So I don’t preach to people to speak positive and be careful what you wish for, ask or say because you can attract it to yourself more than anyone else just because I heard someone say it. Being angry at myself, at life and my circumstances for a few minutes I ended up wishing away almost everything I worked hard to earn. I’ve had to start over several times after those thriving years and I had to learn to stop fighting myself. I won’t win.

It was the pandemic outside and the pandemic in my mind because again when they shut down the world, I kept putting myself down, not saying the right things. When my daughter became pregnant at fifteen after the pandemic was in full swing, I went into another whirlwind and lost myself again. I ended up retiring from work and airbrushing. I decided to live a true retired life. I lost the last shop I had and my car was towed away for default from Toyota. So I was given what I wished for, again. I had to keep telling myself to change my way of thinking and being. Then I started listening to Billy Carson and he affirmed many of my theories. He also tells his audience to speak good things about ourselves because words are powerful.

Return of the Artist #AlexAirbrushLuna

When Baby Pearl was born, I looked at life totally differently. She has brought me so much joy and laughter. She has given me a purpose deep inside I feel I need to fulfill. I desire to give her as many opportunities to become whatever she desires. For that to be possible I need to assure that her generation is doing well when they become adults. She is only a baby now, but time flies doesn’t it. Especially if you don’t stop to enjoy the time with your children, quoting myself from that song Capture Time. So there is work to do and time to enjoy, and plans to be made, goals to be set and align myself back with the current now, the present moment. Sometimes I am busy with so many things but I remember. At least ten minutes if possible, I need to have fun with Baby Pearl any way she wants to play. No phones, no distractions.

I need to remind myself several times to keep going, keep pushing, keep trying, keep being me. Because at the end it is all for her, for my daughter and for all my loved ones, friends and family. Keep enjoying my art, my life and all those things that I do.

I have to keep reminding myself, readers, because sometimes I let my worries get the best of me. I ask “what if they think I use my name too much”, “people might think I’m self centered, promoting myself too much” and things like that. “I am always talking about crypto, NFTs and tying physical and digital art”

I am an artist, living my best life and showing Baby Pearl she can do the same. And in the end I will give her my works, so that she may create and do what her and her generation gravitate to. All these accounts should be monetizing and creating passive income that can compound and grow nicely as she keeps growing too. While we make passive income, we can still play and have fun! But for now I have to be #AlexAirbrushLuna and I believe I am bringing ideas and putting them out for others to follow and be better than me. I’ll be the first NFT Airbrush Artists that future artists will all want to top. It’s all good.

Gotta stay ahead of the game because if you are just chasing what’s hot, by the time you reach it, it will be cold. You know my goal, Airbrushes & Airplanes. I encourage everyone to live out your best dreams, be the best version of you and be as happy with yourself as you can. Before you know it, that moment too will end.

Plenty of new ideas, concepts, knowledge and information coming for you guys and gals. Thank you being a loyal subscriber, a leader. Remember, it’s all about you.

#AlexAirbrushLuna

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