Casey Whitney

Hello! My interest in art has started since I was one. My Mom used to teach kids how to draw cartoons in my middle school. I would sit with her students all the time practicing cartoon characters like, Garfield, Snoopy, Muppet Babies, Kermit, etc. Then from there I went off to drawing super heroes from my comic books I used to collect. Learning the muscle structure and how shapes form different poses of the human body was so fascinating to me. In 1996 I got into graffiti, urban art and fell in love with the movement of this art. The way you can express yourself through graffiti is endless. To be able to express how you feel through letters and characters I found amazing. How you can change the letters of the alphabet it make it your own way of art was amazing to me. Even the 3-Dimesions side of graffiti got so deep, knowing your light source and which shades of colors to use for textures. This had also drew my inspiration from Kaws who is a Jersey graffiti writer and I happen to be from Jersey myself. I seen his art be on walls before he blew up into what he is today. Very interesting to watch my category of artist make such a huge impact in the art industry . Fast forward Today I'm still doing graffiti and cartoon characters and n...

College - Art Institute of Pittsburgh -
Graphic Design and Painting

High School East Brunswick Vocation Art School - Graphic Design and Painting.

Most of my art abilities came from my Mom and self taught throughout the years.