HOUSTON, TX, MAY 12, 2016 – In April of 2016, Discover Web Solutions, LLC was hired to transfer the domain and add a content management system for the Jay Ybarra website. This month, Discover Web Solutions, LLC was hired once again to add a new layout and a store to the website.
Jay Ybarra is a talented artist and musician who has begun to sell his paintings through his website. Through the website, original paintings and prints can be purchased using secure payments.
Please visit his website.
About Jay Ybarra
Jay Ybarra has lived by the Gulf of Mexico all of his life. He decided to take his passion for music and turn it into his career.
Jando
After struggling many years in the business world, Jay unknowingly hit his stride at the request of his children to learn to play the guitar. Discovering a talent he had, he decided to go back to school and get a music degree in classical guitar. One year later, he was already teaching and performing throughout the Greater Houston Area. Two years later, after getting his associates in music, Jay opened up the school of music in the Pasadena area and brought in teachers of many instruments. After four years, it turned out that his talents were not only a blessing but a hereditary gift that also reached his children. The band Jando was formed including Jay, and his two sons, Maximillian and Alexander. Jando has steadily grown throughout the Greater Houston area playing Rhumba Flamenco music consisting of two Spanish guitars and percussion. For the past ten years, Jay has been blessed with living off of his music while getting quality time with his sons.
Art
After a decade, Jay kept wondering what other hidden talents were lying in his gene pool. In September 2013, he walked into an art studio that was offering art lessons. Not knowing where to begin or what even to draw, he dove right in with acrylics and felt at home. His first teacher was so impressed with his work and natural ability, she encouraged him to just go with it. So he did. Remembering one lesson about being original, Jay decided first to learn to operate a camera and capture what he has been seeing all of his life. Jay realized he was quickly approaching a way to show the world what he sees and feels not only through his music but now in art as well. It was time to catch up!
The Urban Easel
In keeping true with his music and now art, Jay pulled out all the stops and became partners with his friend Rachel Cox. Together they transformed an old daycare building into The Urban Easel, an art gallery, and studio where all are encouraged to find out what is within their grasps. Jay teaches lessons in music and art. His drawing skills lend a hand in his paintings of most things natural and he has been described as a cutting-edge artist for his compositions and colors.
Since that day in September 2013, Jay has been steadily working not only his music but his art as well. He passed two juried art shows where he successfully sold. In the Budah Art Show, Jay sold two original paintings and was hired for a commissioned painting. Not bad for his first time ever! Subsequently, after passing the Jury for Kerrville, he was not only successful in selling four original paintings and one commission, he brought Jando to perform for the event. Jay was met with high accolades and furthermore increased his confidence that he is doing what he was meant to be doing.
Jay is being mentored from Pam Hatch, a highly respected and successful artist throughout Galveston County. He respects and appreciates the opportunities and abilities that have been given him. He continues to study music and art and realizes this is only the beginning. He has also shown in Kamme Art Gallery in Sanger, Texas and is currently showing in Friendswood Frame and Art. As of fall 2015, has applied for and been accepted in six out of six national juried art shows. He is starting 2016 in the Dallas Home Show and Market and looks forward to this next year in his art career!
