Timothy B., an East Bay artist, received a call inviting him to share his creativity on a national stage this Super Bowl weekend.<\/p>\n
The Oakland artist wanted to get this just right, but had a very short deadline.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is my first time or second time using poly cloth,\u201d he said. \u201cThis took me about a day in a half to create.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Timothy B. admits he almost didn\u2019t think it was real when he was commissioned by someone he had recently met.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t know him that well, so I thought the project was probably too good to be true,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Before beginning, he talked to die-hard Bad Bunny fans.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just asked them for their input,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Then it was time to sketch. Timothy b. Chose to go with heart-shaped sunglasses for Benito Antonio and admitted the entire assignment was not his typical work.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy style is a little more realistic you know so at least when it comes to painting portraits so trying to dial it back was a challenge for me,\u201d he said. \u201cI decided to add a bunch of paint to give it more texture and some more splatters and stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n
The artwork will be used as an backdrop during an NBC interview with Bad Bunny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Timothy B., an East Bay artist, received a call inviting him to share his creativity on a national…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144,11730],"class_list":["post-169143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-super-bowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}