This young artist becomes a viral sensation. See her beautiful paintings of black icons!

Many people in the society feel the need to express themselves when they are going through different ordeals in life. Some simply get lost in deep thoughts and recoil into their shells.

 

Art has been able to help these people find their voices as they are able to express themselves. They find different ways of venting by channelling their emotions into artworks. Some find solace in painting and creating works of art while some prefer to sing through their trials and pains.

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There is beauty in art; only those who are artistic in nature can understand what those deep colours and slashes mean. Every mistake in art is considered to be a design because someone somewhere would be able to relate with the broken lines and ugliness of a piece.

Yashiva Robinson is a Florida-based artist who has been able to produce remarkable paintings of black music icons like Tupac Shakur and Erykah Badu. The twenty-six-year-old painter has become a viral sensation with the drawings and paintings she has done.

Robinson has always been a creative artist as she had been able to create masterpieces since she was in the kindergarten. She is known as an artist, singer, tattooist, beautician and a model.

This young talented artist has been able to turn her creativity into a thriving business. She is the new sensation out there as her paintings have made her gain up to seventeen thousand followers on Instagram.

This twenty-six-year-old artist is popularly known as Sheeeves; she recorded a huge success after her paintings went viral on Tumblr. The series contained a mixture of black musical icons in the 1980s and 1990s. This series featured Tupac Shakur and other icons.

Being tagged a success comes after many processes; Robinson had been producing artistic works online for up to six years. She knew the sacrifices she had to made and did not allow herself to get distracted. She knew she had to build an audience and gave out some of her paintings for free in the process.

Her life changed in the year 2015 when she did a painting of Amiyah Scott and posted it on Instagram. She gained popularity from giving out her paintings and drawing people out of the kindness of her heart.

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The black lives matter movement also helped her career as an artist; Tumblr like the other social media became the focal point of attention as they got tons of sentiments from the lovers and supporters of black people. That helped a lot of rising artists by making them more popular.

Robinson longs for a unified nation where open-mindedness would not be frowned at. Her paintings are realistic to her subjects because she has a way of blending the colours and the abstract designs.

Even as she works with kaleidoscopic colours, she tries making every piece unique and beautiful. That was the theme she worked with when she produced some of her most famous paintings.

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