Thee Native Creative

My name is Tony and I am 100% Coloradan, born and raised - most would call us unicorns these days. My artwork has stemmed from many different styles & mediums over the years, including but not limited to painting, carpentry, and drawing. 

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I specialize in bottle cap art ,which developed from an interest in collecting used caps while serving drinks at local sporting events. Slowly ten caps became twenty and twenty became twenty thousand and after a while I needed to rid of them somehow so I used art as my primary focus. 

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Since then I have created a special way to share my art with the world by putting the bottle caps back where they belong - in bars, breweries, or in the homes of unique individuals that have a strong desire to support local artists.

Each piece of work gives me the chance to paint a picture using the untold stories that lie behind each and every bottle cap - girlfriends honoring a Bachelorette, college friends celebrating finals, and even a dad sharing a 'first beer' with his son at a baseball game.  

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All of these influences have lead me to pursue my passion and find a way to turn one man's trash into another man's treasure.