Discovering the artistic side of Brandon Boyd

Collaborating with Rockzone magazine led me to enjoy unforgettable moments. One of them lived to interview the wonderful singer of Incubus about a year ago. I remember waking up the day of that phone conversation with many doubts in my head. Was it to be Brandon Boyd another diva-like Dean DeLeo, and instead I would find dull and with a character of few words? In the end both nervousness fortunately did no good, the talks with Brandon was fine and she began to glimpse the fascinating love for art that Van Nuys has felt from well baby.
To start talking about the relationship between painting and Brandon should go back to the childhood of Van Nuys. In boyhood Boyd was dropped by the house of his grandparents, where innocently took as a first reference artistic self-portrait of his mother hanging from the guest room. That image so powerful that even reached to restrain upon waking each morning, helped him to learn of the pregnancy that could come to convey a picture through a few simple strokes.
In high school, the young Californian took his first steps into the world of music to start distributing flyers handmade. These were based on a book about sex education provided by the mother of Mike Einziger and obviously people did not quite understand the relationship between an early Incubus and images of this kind. The experiment was an important phase for Boyd and after much struggle finally managed to realize his dream to join the Community College to study fine arts.
Within a few semesters Brandon felt he had to leave school to pursue full-time Incubus. This rotation, however, caused the artist leave aside the design world. Boyd took a few years away but eventually released "White Fluffy Clouds," a first book in which agglutinated some of the writings and drawings that Boyd had been done in the late 90's / early 2000.
The style of the portraits, throughout his career, has been largely inspired by classical Japanese that stream where natural elements and figures intertwined with all kinds of mammals and living things. The book cover you see below is just a reflection of what has been said:
Later, in 2007 and taking advantage of the end of the tour "Light Grenades", Brandon returned to dazzle with their creativity with the launch of another book art. This was titled "From the Murks of the Sultry Abyss", was published again under Endophasia and also played to weave stories, photographs and illustrations of the artist of fantasy. This book and its predecessor "White Fluffy Clouds" can still be purchased through the official website of artist.
Well into 2007, Brandon needed a break. Taking advantage of his teammate Mike Einziger returned to Harvard to study physics, Incubus singer decided it was time to return to study art at a school in Los Angeles. That period, which lasted only a few months, again exploiting the creativity of Boyd to the extent that the Californian decided to ally with Hurley to launch a line of shirts beneficial and, in turn, his first mural art. The impressive results of the experiment was exposed on April 2.
Incubus returned to delve into the music scene with "If Not Now, When?" Which was published in mid-2011. Although lately the professional life of Brandon Boyd has been pretty hectic, "The Invisible Floating Torso Man" has been achieved. find their holes to surprise with a new line of shirts made with Hurley charities and occasional exhibition of paintings like that took place at Museum Of Monterey. The sea theme was the epicenter of all designs displayed in an event in which Boyd again demonstrated his love for sustainability and that beloved sport called surfing.
Looking in retrospect his life is easy to appreciate the importance of paint for Brandon Boyd. Far from being a musician to use, the U.S. needs to feed back with a creativity that takes you to feel inspired in various artistic fields. That, coupled with his personality so geared to the beneficial and sustainable, makes it different, special. And that's what we love about Brandon, may the years go for it but there will always be in your heart that creative impetuosity born from the moment he saw the portraits of his mother.