News Archive March 2011
From: Steve Gamble
Posted: April 7, 2011
At the age of 9 my parents gifted me a KISS album, Rock and roll over. At the time I had 2 records, Tom Jones and some country record titled Waterloo. All I knew of rock and roll is what bellowed out of my step sister's room - AC/DC, Pink Floyd, Peter Framptom etc, etc. Never heard of KISS. I was so blown away by the visual aspects and the music that I never again put those old records on the turn table again.
I began drawing the faces and costumes adorned by my new found passion all the time. I spent years drawing everything I could get my hands on from KISS. I collected albums, posters, bubblegum cards, belt buckles. I attribute my career to KISS. Had it not been for thier influence who knows what I might have been doing these days. I can clearly remember thinking to myself nights I could not get to sleep, that when I grew up I would be painting pictures on people's walls and that would be my job. Well I grew up, and here I am doing those things I thought of. Present day; I hoped for quite some time that I would meet someone that desired to have a KISS mural painted on thier wall, of which I would be hired to perform. I had one client years back talk of such a thing but never stepped up the plate to have it come to fruition. Well that day has finally came. I recently met a very cool couple that discovered my talents by chance. A KISS fan of bombastic proportions. It has been an honor to finally make that dream a reality. The murals both took a total of three days each to complete and regular house paints were used for the most part along with some acrylic paints where I had to custom mix my colors.
I am a self employed interior designer in Florida. My company name is Steve Gamble Interiors. I can be found on Facebook or @ www.stevegambleinteriors.com
