A tribute to David Dees - waking up through political satire art

David Dees began his airbrush art career in the fast paced world of corporate advertising. Begging his way onto a staff position at an Atlanta sweatshop, GraphicsGroup studios, Dees was soon dealing with cutthroat art directors from New York to Chicago, creating the eye catching visuals that sold everything from cartoon package designs on kids cereal boxes, to billboards of dazzling electronics, to the newest soft drink ads.

In the eighties, setting up freelance shop in Los Angeles, Dees had success with the movie industry, painting hundreds of video covers, movie ad campaigns, and store displays for his clients Paramount, Hanna-Barbera, and Walt Disney Studios.

Then, an interest in childrens book illustrations led to a long standing association with Sesame Street, where his colorful and wacky illustrations of Cookie Monster, Big Bird, and the muppets were featured in Sesame Street Magazine nearly every month for the last 15 years, including seven covers, and recently, four Sesame Street children books for Random House and Readers Digest Publishing.

These days, long since replacing the liquid airbrushed acrylic paint with photoshop digital art, high technology has revitalized the look and feel of his artwork.

Then, in 2006, Dees came up with an original style of political art commentary inspired by the 9/11 truth movement and a passion to fight the New World Order agenda. David began creating and releasing an endless barrage of aggressive, and sometimes disturbing, photo-illustration images throughout the internet in an attempt to wake others up about the onslaught of the elite's power hungry world government plan of domination. Sarcastic to the extreme, funny in the approach, most times visually horrifying, this wild new style of illustration screams out our serious world crisis situation in a visual instant.

Patriot heros like Hollywood film producer Aaron Russo who produced "America: Freedom to Fascism", radio talk show legend Jeff Rense, and the world renowned David Icke have all commented on this socially conscious illustration and were not shy in throwing around the term 'political art genius'.

What irony that all of David Dees' years of designing for big corporations trained an art monster who would now turn his creative power back against that very corrupt mainstream media.

Wall painted animation art by BLU

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Akiane - The Inspired Vision - child prodigy

Akiane Kramarik (akiane means ocean in Russian)

Born underwater at home, on July 9, 1994, in Mount Morris, Illinois, to the atheistic Lithuanian stay-at-home mother, and an American father, chef and dietary manager.

• Lived in Illinois, Missouri, Colorado and Idaho, experiencing poverty and affluence.


• Having attended both public and private schools, now is home-schooled with her four brothers, Delfini 16, Jean Lu 14, Ilia 5 years old and Aurelius, her new baby brother.


• Began drawing at 4, and painting at 6, teaching herself and learning mostly from her own keen observation and study.


• Speaks four languages: Lithuanian,Russian, English and Sign Language.


• At 4, had a life-changing spiritual transformation, bringing the family to God.


• At age 7 began writing poetry and aphorisms.


• Her poems often arrive fully conceived.


• The inspiration for her art and literature comes from her visions, dreams, observations of people, nature and God.






• Paints from imagination, reference materials and models.


• Favorite size canvases: 48 x 60 inches.


• Considers her style: Akianism - a universal blend of realism andimaginism.


• Wants people to find hope in her paintings.


• Has the same goal with each painting: to be inspiration for others and to be the gift to God.


• Favorite medium: acrylics for full figures, and oil paints for large portraits.


• Rises at 4 a.m. five-six days a week to get ready to paint in the studio and write; works for about 4-5 hours each day.


• Often works over a hundred to two hundred hours on a painting, producing 8 to 20 paintings a year.

Akiane at Oprah Winfrey Show

• Usually makes many sketches before painting.


• Works on one painting at a time.


• Favorite subject: people and spiritual subjects.


• Has "start-to-finish" demonstration videos of her painting.


• Favorite activities and hobbies: art, poetry, piano, reading and helping people.


• Likes about herself: "sensitivity to people".

Akiane Art Gallery - click on the image below

• Does not like about herself: "impatience".


• Assesses her own character:"daring heart and cautious mind".


• Her biggest wish:"that everyone would love God and one another".


• Her life goal: to share her love for God and people around the world.

Interview with Akiane, age 12.


Official webpage: http://www.artakiane.com/