Self taught creative extraordinaire, Rhet, is drawing, painting, and illustrating his way back into sanity after an long break. There's a certain dichotomy in his work. He deeply wants to help heal people with his memorial work while he aims to shock people with his expressive style in his spontaneous more illustrative works.

Self taught creative extraordinaire, Rhet, is drawing, painting, and illustrating his way back into sanity after an long break. There's a certain dichotomy in his work. He deeply wants to help heal people with his memorial work while he aims to shock people with his expressive style in his spontaneous more illustrative works.

The majority of CeeCee's works are colorful renditions of sex worker photos on social media. With their consent, she depicts them to promote sexuality acceptance, body positivity, but most importantly awareness to safety standards for ALL sex workers./sf

My art strives to promote sexuality acceptance and body positivity, but most importantly to bring awareness to safety standards for ALL sex workers. The majority of my paintings are colorful renditions of sex worker photos found on social media platforms, and with their consent, I am able to depict the light and sexual energy of the human form with acrylic paint on canvas or paper.

Molly, a self-taught artist and former accountant, just wants to make the world smile with her art. In addition to painting, she creates with textiles, jewelry, sign painting, murals and pinstriping./sf

I just wanna bring the world a bit more color and therefore happiness

Kenny paints realism and portraiture. He conveys the depths of emotion through rich colors and vibrant hues. He uses primary colors in all his paintings and only mixes them to achieve all the hues and additional colors. /sf

Anna returns to Art Battle! Anna is a member of the Creative Union of Russian Artists. She is also an artist in resident at Kennedy Gallery in Midtown Sacramento. She paints with different techniques and with any materials you can imagine./sf

Let’s have fun!

An engineer and self-taught artist, Valina is inspired by places she has experienced mostly on her bike or by foot in nature. Each of her art pieces has a story behind it and she shares that through her blog. She likes adding twists to nature because she believes capturing reality is better done with camera but art can capture emotions and transcend experiences./sf

Excited for my first live art competition! Looking forward to meeting people and having fun!

Rhyan's speciality is street lettering with a realistic tattoo background. He once got expelled from his junior high for tagging graffiti now and now he travels the country putting my lettering and artwork on people and buildings as a career./sf

For the love of Art

Tiffany returns! Tiffany is a figurative painter based in the Bay Area. She loves using bold, vibrant colors and capturing the subtle expressions and moods of people. She is inspired by the beauty of nature. /sf

Wendy is back! Wendy studied engineering at MIT and is super passionate about sustainability. A lot of her paintings are inspired by nature and she has sometimes used packaging in her art as a form of recycling. She uses acrylic paint, pouring paint, and oil pastels in her art. She mostly prefers brushes and pallette knives, but occasionally use other tools such as forks, foil, and old credit cards./sf

Evenezer grew up learning to create art from his oldest brother. In addition to painting, he enjoys drawing, dancing, chemistry, math and teaching ballroom. Fun fact, he can speak four languages!/sf

I grew up in Eritrea capita city Asmara. Learned art from my oldest brother. I am the youngest of 7. Moved to America in 2005. Went to Herron high school in Indianapolis that was a art centric that inspired me. I went to college in New York and studied chemistry and fine Arts. Went to get my masters in Syracuse in Chemical Engineering.Random facts, ran a kitchen from 17-19 years old, I speak 4 languages, I did a stint as a ballroom dance teacher, grew up with dirt floors, and currently a field engineer in the Bay Area and Oakland based.