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Sanjay Heera

@sanjay_heera

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San Jose, California.
Artist.
Oil Painter.
Charcoal.
Design.
Romance and Monsters.
There's YEARS of art down there. ⬇️
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Just over here... staring at HER.
So, now, you'll see Her too.

This is The Immortal "Sophia".
An Oil Painting of Mine.
Painted in 2024.

Painted as a response to the vile attacks on Life, particularly Young Life... Committed around The Globe, at this particular moment in time.

Sophia is a Guardian Angel. Her Eyes in tears, as she sits on The Moon. Overwatches The Departed... Cares for The Souls of The Young, who will never have their chance in this life.

She carries their hurt. So She is bruised.

As a viewer, I get sort of lost, staring at Her after these few years. I forget that I painted Her... And get to just take in Her purpose... And all of a sudden, everything's Heavy.

When someone tells Me, they're an artist... I say... "Oh, Really?". Intrigued to see what they're about.

I am NOT your average "Good" Academic Painter. I'm not here to try to sell anyone on the idea of trying to be "Good" at what I do. Trust Me, I don't try for that reason. I know Who I am, and I know what I can do. And I'll put that against ANY ARTIST on the planet.

I'll win Your Favorite Artist over. I know what My NAME means.

Because... I am trying to get you to feel what I FEEL. And, If I can do that... I'll know I have You. And from there, you'll be ALLLLL Mine.

Have a Wonderful Evening, Ladies and Gentlemen. 💙
Thank You for Viewing. 🙏🏼

#SanjayHeera #Art #Artist #OilPainting #TraditionalArt by @sanjay_heera

Another Trip around The Sun. This One Felt Like an Eternity.

I do not believe in Plateau's... I do not believe in Primes. I believe in ENDURANCE. Bringing the war to the day, every given day... EVERY SINGLE DAY... NEVER saying Die. There hasn't been a day where I've rested... And I never want to. These last few years have been by far the most difficult years of My Life... On Paper. They've felt easy... Nothing out there is Stronger than The Spirit of Me. It's been heartbreaking in every single way... Yet I've LOVED Every Single Minute of It. The Difficulty Emboldens Me... As I slowly defeat every challenge in My Life... We do it ALL the hard way.

The Candle That Burns The Brightest, Burns Out Fastest? WE'LL SEE ABOUT THAT.

I am The Persuer... And with THIS LOVE of Life... Why should I EVER STOP? I'm having far too much fun being a Nightmare to everything that was supposed to destroy us. I'm toying with it now.

It's still like the beginning. Everything NEW.

I have become The Man I dreamt of being, as a Child.

Half Way done with The Trip... With a LIFETIME to go. And I promise You, it's about to get REAL NASTY.

More Art... More Cars... More Friends... More Family... More Speed... More Horsepower... More Adventure... More LOVE. Let's Be There for ALL OF IT.

I am Soooo Excited.

I am grateful. Gratitude comes at a price in My World. You MUST do something with all the good that's happened to you. HONOR THE GIFT.

So Thankful for All of You who have chosen to have Me in Your Lives. I'm so humbled and grateful to have all of You in Mine.

Family.

This is just a lil mark in time just to take a look at where I am... To see what I'm feeling. I feel pretty damn good. I am defying everything.

Relentless...
I am living off MY WILL.

I'm Dying to Light This Whole Thing on Fire.

.......

Thank You ALL for The Birthday Wishes.
Love You Guys.

I always said to myself that I'd take some photos of Myself... My social media is notoriously absent of images of Me...

So EAT Your Hearts Out.
Me and Bella... Bella and I.

Remember... WE ARE JUST GETTING STARTED.
Don't believe Me? Join Me.

#TheBalladofBella by @sanjay_heera

Since EVERYONES talking about The Hirohata Merc, today. I figured this was a good time to post my painting of That Legendary Car... I remember The Time I First Saw Her in Person. She's so Beautiful.

#Art #FineArt #Love #HotRod #Kustom #HirohataMerc #Legend #Arte #Artist #Car #Cars #CarArt #HotRodArt #CarDesign #Merc #Custom #InstaGood #InstaDaily #InstaArt #Like4Like #ArtistsOnInstagram #ArtistsOfInstagram #Fun #PicOfTheDay #PhotoOfTheDay #ArtOfTheDay #Me #SanjayHeera #Sunset #Artwork by @sanjay_heera

Eventful Sunday.

Bella and I rolled towards The Firehouse Museum, Downtown to hang out with Julio, Deborah, The Hernandez Boyz, and The Rod & Wheelers. Had a great time catching up with them. Was also able to give Julio his New Family Art. Incredible feeling to have The Whole Hernandez Crew there to receive it. The feeling they gave me. I just love that Family. 🖤

After... I cruised on through town, with Bella. I'm Captain Tire Chirp at Santana Row... Gotta Let Em KNOW.

We were heading towards My Art Family in Los Gatos. Kristin and George Rivera. Kristin has been featured in a Japanese Gallery with Her Beautiful Shinto Temple Sculptures and Creations. The space was beautiful, designed as a Traditional Japanese Structure. The Art on display, from swords to scrolls, were from Imperial Japan... hundreds of years old. Also, a demonstration of Traditional Japanese Floral Arrangement and Calligraphy... A Beautiful Afternoon.

I even talked Hot Rods with people at The Art Show. People were like, "How did you end up here?".

Cruised on home... with Bella's WarDrum, meditating on my dreams... just appreciating the moment. I am so lucky to have so many wonderful people in my life. I feel like I have family everywhere I go. Thank You, Bella for always taking Me On These ADVENTURES, with you brutal, high powered, sexy self.

A bunch of WONDERFUL HAPPENINGS... As full as my life is, with love, I need more. Never greedy... I owe it to do it.

I often promise, "forever", "for life"... Others really struggle with that commitment... I don't. I'll give everything I am in commitment until it crushes me... in a heartbeat. I think people do not understand how short this trip is... we won't live forever. We don't have much of a shot at getting to live our dreams. Life is fragile, it's frail. So, the amount of time we have... especially if you are driven and infinitely passionate... Is so short. You just NEVER feel like you have enough time, regardless of how much you do. So, OF COURSE I can commit. OF COURSE I can promise, FOREVER. It's nothing to me, to give EVERYTHING IN ME.

Thank You Julio. Thank You Deborah. Thank You Kristin. Thank You George. Thank You Bella. by @sanjay_heera

I had The Prestigious Honor of Creating a LowRider Plaque/ Hot Rod Plaque/ Family Insignia/ Design for My Brother Julio Hernandez and His Family.

The letters read " Hernandez Crewzn". Julio's handle which symbolizes both The Hernandez Family... The Hernandez Crew, and The Act of Cruisin' their cars together.

Julio approached Me awhile back, asking about a commission to create this... I told him, I'd be honored to do so. I sketched up a bunch of small ideas. Julio then took them to his boys and his lovely wife, to ask them what they thought. The two designs they picked became the precursor to this design. I combined the best of the two ideas and came up with THIS.

This is The Final Design painted in White Acrylic on a 12" x 16" Black Canvas Board. The Design features flow. I wanted to include some OLE SKOOL FUNK, to capture some of Julio's Personality. I kept the design "wide" to accommodate the possibility of fitting well in a chopped rear window. The three "prongs" at the bottom of the design will allow it to be easy to mount. Hopefully, Julio creates all sorts of things with this design... Stickers, T Shirts... I hope I get a T Shirt. 🤣

Couldn't have gotten the chance to do this for a kooler family. They're so close. They build hot rods together. They help everyone around them with tasks that no one else could do. They love everyone. They give back so much. I love being around them. An Absolute Pleasure and Honor to have them all in My Life.

San Jose Thangz for THIS SAN JOSE FAMILY of MINE. 💜 Thank You So Much, Julio for considering me to create such a kool and momentous piece of Art for You and Your Family. So Honored... So Grateful. Love You Guys. 🖤

This is San Jose... Birth of LowRiding. So where better to create a LowRider Plaque? We carrying on Tradition.

#Art #LowRider #HotRod #SanJose #SanjayHeera by @sanjay_heera

Randomly Found This...

The Color Shot from THAT ONE TIME, Bella and I started a MODELING CAREER. 🤣

Watch... One day I'm gonna do this in a TUX... and Bella will be a Full Blown RaceCar... Rattling The Doors, Windows, and Teeth out of Everyone Around Us. 👹

#HotRodder by @sanjay_heera

The White Ghost, leading The Pack... Todd in that beautiful Deep Red Z06 following with Timmy... And Mark in That Beastly SuperCharged Gran Turismo Camaro following in Pursuit.

#LagunaSeca #Racing #RaceCars #Family #Brother by @sanjay_heera

Everyone knows Our Crew...

Bill Brennan was part of our crew.

The morning started with The Deliverer, Bravado, and Bella... following Ronnie and Brian to the events hall to be with our family, to remember and mourn the loss of Our Beloved Friend.

Everyone of Significance was there. The community. Bill's Family. Bill's Dad's 49 Caddy. It was a beautiful showing for the one we lost.

There was a lot of talking... people catching up... remembering Bill.

Bill's favorite band, O' Craven, performed a beautiful acoustic set, in his remembrance. John and The Boyz made sure Bill Heard Em'.

Soon it was time for people to grab the mic and share their stories of Bill. Josh Raditch started off, and pretty much summed up and predicted what people were going to say. He knew Bill well.

Everyone who spoke, did so, wonderfully. Painting The Picture of Bill. The main thing was... no matter how loud he got, or how crazy the next thing he would say, was... he'd never leave you hanging...

That's The Exact Feeling of Bill,... That You were protected... Bill was watching your back. I'll always remember that, because it is so rare. People will leave you in this life, Bill didn't.

I want to thank Vicky, Jennifer, and Tina for having all of us... Welcoming us into this painful and vulnerable space. Wish we never lost him... not like this. I want to thank My Brother Josh... for taking charge and making sure we were all there... He made sure this whole thing happened. It was very selfless of You, Brother.

Loss is part of this... And none of us will escape it. I said repeatedly, today... The more people you know... The more frequent The GoodByes will come. It's a hurtful part of loving people... but it's the price we have to pay. I'll pay it every time, because I couldn't imagine not loving my people. I couldn't imagine not loving Bill.

The material things don't matter. They are obstacles... having you THERE, is my ultimate priority. Because, we are all on a clock. I want to see you shine before this is all over. I want to celebrate you, long before we say goodbye.

Love Ya Forever, My Brother, Bill Brennan. 💔

#Family #Brother #KingCaddyBill #CadillacBill #GoodBye by @sanjay_heera

My Dearly Departed Brother... Scotty Weeks.

I swear, looking at this oil painting makes me feel like he's still alive... 🖤

In Our Hearts, Forever.
Love Ya, Scotty.

#ScottyWeeks #StrangersCC #Brother #SanJose #SanjayHeera by @sanjay_heera

An Indepth look at Timmy Dow's Kustom Livery for The White Ghost. The Number 44 RaceCar.

Timmy debuted the art on the car at Laguna Seca... I figured it was time to show some of the details in creating the Mirroring Ghosts.

There's a "short" ghost and a "long" ghost for both right and left of the car. Though they mirror, none of the ghosts are exactly identical since the numbers had to "face forward" on both sides of the car.

There's also a "charcoal long" ghost... but we aren't too sure we're going to use them just yet.

The whole thing started with a funny little emoji, Timmy sent me out of the blue. Timmy said, "I want this... But more serious.". 🤣🤣🤣 From there, I created a few "ghosts" and had Timmy pick which one He liked the most. His favorite and my favorite were the same one. I also created some numbers... Timmy said, he liked Lewis Hamilton's Overlapping 44 Race Numbers... So I created my own versions of that. Ascending, Descending, Right, Left, Backwards. Dozens upon dozens of sketches... brainstorming... what I thought would be easy... wasn't. That made it so much sweeter.

None of this was based on anything... this was me, creating ideas from the depth of me. No AI or copying anyone else. That way Timmy has something REAL... something that's unique to Him and His Car. He asked me to do the art... THAT MEANS Something.

Timmy got EXACTLY what he wanted... His Numbers and A One Off Ghost that's specific to Him and His Car... and I have My Art on The Baddest RaceCar in The Hood. Brother Thangz. 🖤

Oh... And we are not done. More touches to The White Ghost and Her Livery in the near future.

This little project is absolutely one of the flat out koolest art projects I have ever been a part of. How many artists can say their art is seen going 140mph around Laguna Seca?

And to see THAT BAD WOMAN, roam around, wearing My Work!?! She scares me just a bit more, every time I see her... and I think she KNOWS IT. 😭

I now have a Race Livery under my name. I thought of The Martini and Gulf Livery, after My Friend Peter said that... That made it ALL TOO REAL. I've got Art on a RaceCar. 🖤

Thank You, Timmy. 🖤

#Artist #Art #RaceCar #Brothers by @sanjay_heera

I just want to take a second to show a Lil Love to My Big Brother, Mr. Tim Dow... Aka Timmy Quick... The Driver and Owner of The RaceCar Number 44, The 44 Monster, THE WHITE GHOST.

Timmy is an easy going guy... sweet, funny, kind, loving, inclusive, caring, driven, ego less, there's no task too big... there's no detail too small. Timmy is quite simply, The Man. I love being around him.

The trait I've pick up on, as far as a quality possessed by the greatest human beings I know? How easy they make everything... by just being them. The comfort you have around them. How much you want to be around them. How effortless everything becomes... regardless of how difficult they once were... just because they believe in you. Timmy is all of that, and more.

It hard to do things alone... No one knows that better than Me. It exemplifies the value of having people love you and what it makes possible. Timmy always drags me along. He goes above and beyond to make sure I'm there... and I've never asked him. He just says, jump in. I don't know what I did to deserve that.

How did I get so lucky?

When I was a kid... the first thing I ever wanted to be in life was a racecar driver. And now, with a brother like Timmy... I see it happening, in the near future. Ain't life wild?

Timmy recently asked me for a design for his numbers. Sent me a goofy lil ghost emoji with the number 44 on it and said... "I want something like that, but a lil more serious.". 🤣 He gave me the opportunity to create the theme of his beloved RaceCar. Now WE have a Fearsome LIVERY under our names... Just because he believed in me. WHAT AN HONOR.

I'm just here to spread The Legend on My Big Brother. He is INCREDIBLE. I love Him. And I am so thankful to have him in my life.

Many More Adventures... And A LOT More Speed, Ahead. 🖤

Thank You, Timmy. 🖤

If you're in San Jose and you see THIS CAR roaming around. Know that it's Timmy, and That Beast he's in is an absolute monster pushed to the brink of her capabilities.

Ain't faking nothing. We live this.

#Brother #LagunaSeca #Racing #Love #Family by @sanjay_heera

Laguna Seca Sunsets with The White Ghost.

An Absolutely Perfect Weekend.

#LagunaSeca #Racing #Brother by @sanjay_heera