The last few years have been a little crazy.
If you’ve followed my journey, you’ll know that I went from being a business student interning at a Software and Systems Engineering firm in a tech city, to becoming a lead Aircraft Paint Scheme Designer in the middle of the country. What a leap of faith that was!
Many of you know me from the airshow and fly-in scenes as a scheme designer, campfire comedian, and student pilot. Even more of you who’ve known me since childhood know me as an artsy, awkward geek who loves to create and work with my hands.
For those who don’t know me, let me introduce myself. I’m Sammy! I’m an animal-loving millennial who enjoys the simpler things in life and surrounding myself with amazing people. You can catch me bicycling around the local airport, sketching at a museum, camping at a backcountry fly-in, or even in the water on the occasional scuba trip! Documenting these adventures is part of the fun, and I hope you’ll come along for the ride! I’ve made a lot of great friends through my travels, and hopefully I can get to know some of you, too!
Now, with that out of the way, I’d like to announce that I will be combining all of my media platforms onto this one site… if you hadn’t realized that already. Ha. My old sites, STRNFIVE.com and Empyart.com, will no longer be active, and my body of work will now be represented here. There are quite a few reasons for this change, the main reason being that I’d like to make my different creative outlets work to complement each other, instead of compete with each other. This site will be the nexus for all of my bodies of work, including this journal, my shop, and my comprehensive art portfolio.
As for my social media, I will be combining my two accounts into one. If you are following my @strnfive Instagram account, please know that I will be deleting this account and posting all new works onto my main account, which I’ve rebranded to @brushpilotsammy. I’m also combining my Facebook pages to a page of the same name.
Anyway, thanks for visiting the site and taking a moment to catch up on everything. I appreciate you guys very much, and look forward to creating some new content for 2020.