HAMMER SEVEN-ONE is my personal art project based on real life, doing real things, and living to tell the tale. I've seen all around this world from serving in the British Army.  There I had seen the best and the worst in unique situations and it was my introduction of life out of your own control, both mine and others. Leaving the army to become a civilian, or best you think you can, I returned to Canada for my civilian life to begin. I worked my way to the top of these mountains of life, making big corporate/contract dollars, giving to charities, having a wife and son whom loved me so very much. Then life changes, that which you thought you'd left behind, never left you, it just hid deep inside and changed you, bit by bit. Like water to a stone the erosion takes slowly, almost unnoticeable, until it breaks through and the wave created washes you from your highest peaks to the very bottom of the valley drowning you and washing away all you once had and loved. It comes far faster than that climb over years and years to get to the top . It is not always drugs or alcohol that does this as I soon found out. Living in a beat down pick-up truck for over a year, using the charities I had once given too. So, from the top to the bottom and everything in between, this gives a person a perspective on every facet of life. Not the kind you can read about or see on TV, or the movies, or even online with some "Influencer" gobbing off to millions of vidiot zombies . A visceral type I would never recommend as many have never come back from such falls. Those of us privileged to do so, to have a little life stuff still burning in a broken husk of your former self, make the most of TIME and not STUFF! We choose a new path. One that has yet to see your footprints upon it. A new unknown, unsure, untaken and unplanned path that every day, you put one foot in front of the next, hoping it does not fall through into some abyss, thus creating a new path into this new unknown. So now with that, and with the choice of moving forward and not back, I'm Dedicated to creating unique art across diverse mediums, blending digital precision with traditional techniques. I Explore the world of artistic possibilities everywhere and anywhere along with meeting new people all along the way! This is my time, my new path and I hope maybe a little of what I do can help others now. So, if I can finish this life in just doing my best me, my best art, and helping others on that path, then I shall die a happy and grateful man. So feel free to print off what you want here, or have me make something for you come to life and if you're able, help cover my art supplies I use/need for your idea, feed me if I'm where you are working or throw a roof over my head if I leave home overnight to get where you are no matter where that may be. Then anything else I leave up to you to give of which I split 50/50 down the middle with a local charity. That's it and that's how it should be and will be for me, simple and fun. So let's get to work and thank you for your time here having a quick read of a simplified life story!

With warmest of regards,

Mark "Hammer71"