Category: Azteca Moderno

Azteca Moderno 2024 Collection

5/22/2024

Daniel “DTM” Flores is a Mexican-American (Chicano) multidisciplinary 2D artist working on character art for games, comics, fine art and animations.

DTM is born and raised in East LA and attended public school amid the 70s and 80s, surrounded by murals full of history of resistance, revolt, solidarity, unity and community with a heavy lean on Chicanismo, Campesinos, Mexican and Aztec History.

During his Pre-Teen years, DTM lived in Mexico City where studying Aztec History took over his imagination and so began his affinity to Aztec Art and Mythology reading any book that would provide insight into the past and beyond.

DTM is now based in Atlanta, GA as a working artist with an art career that spans over 20 years in digital and traditional arts creating Graphic Design, Concept Art, Vector Illustration, Pencil and Ink Drawings plus Fine Art Paintings and Murals.

Azteca Moderno 2024 Collection
Month long exhibit featuring Aztec Gods and Goddesses of the Triple Alliance

Art by DTM on canvas, paper, wood, skateboards, makers, acrylic, pencils, digital and lots of stickers!

Limelight Gallery
Binders Art Store in Buckhead ATL
3330 Piedmont Rd NE #18, Atlanta, GA 30305

FREE
July 1 to July 31st
10 am - 6pm Mon to Sat
12 pm - 5pm Sundays

DRAWING AND COLORING SESSION
July 6
12pm to 3pm
FREE

Drawing Tools Provided or bring your favorite pencils
Old School Beats
Giveaways

RECEPTION
July 13
1pm to 5pm
FREE

Artist Talk
Drawing Session - Pencil Wars
Masked Men conversation
Refreshments
Old School Beats
Giveaways

The 13 Aztec Gods - 2023 collection

9/25/2023

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Azteca Moderno, the 13 Aztec Gods.

I am sharing the sketches for my upcoming coloring pages that will be free this weekend at Kirkwood Library and next weekend at National Center for Civil and Human Rights for the LatinX Heritage Program - Azteca Moderno

I started with 7 with @SketchableApp because I want to paint seven paintings, but then I drew a grid of 9 in Fresco for the sketches and I decided to go along with it.
Then I created the illustrator file for the coloring pages and I created a grid of 12, so I adjusted my sketches in Fresco and when I finished the 12, I realized that the way the Azteca calendar counts months is 13.

So now I will finish 13 Gods and Goddesses for the coloring pages. . whew!
Listen to your creativity!

catch up the final art on the official IG @ElAztecaModerno by @DeltaTangoMike
#ArtLifeAllDay #AztecaModerno #DTM #AztecGods #AztecGoddesses #DrawDaily #AdobeFresco #AdobeIllustrator

ROUGH SKETCHES

VECTOR DRAWINGS

coloring page formatting in Adobe Illustrator

Aztec goddess of water, rivers, seas, streams, storms, and baptism.

Aztec goddess who protected and kept the fire of the familial hearth

Aztec sun and god of war also the patron god of the capital city, Tenochtitlan.

Lady of the dead, ruler of the underworld and watcher over the bones of the dead.

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Aztec god of hunting and storms, personification of the Milky Way.

Aztec god, creator of mankind, boundary maker between earth and sky.

Aztec god of the night and sorcery, patron god of kings and warriors.

Aztec god of rain and fertility, living embodiment of the earth.

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Aztec god of fertility and creator god, populating the earth.

Aztec god of rain seasons and agriculture, guardian of the underworld.

Aztec god of fire, creator of all life, fire day and heat.

Prince of the flowers, Aztec god of love and fertility, music and dance.

Aztec goddess of beauty and love, lady of flowers, young women and fertility.

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13 Gods Coloring Book Azteca Moderno 2023
download the coloring book pdf here

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El Azteca Moderno

9/2/2023

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coloring pages

paintings

digital renderings

ATL mural

follow #AztecaModrno on IG or Twitter

View this profile on Instagram

Azteca Moderno by DTM (@elaztecamoderno) â€¢ Instagram photos and videos

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May Mashup Art Challenge

5/1/2023

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MERMAID WARRIOR
https://www.behance.net/gallery/150718237/MERMAID-WARRIOR
#MayMashupArtChallenge #AztecaModernoMermay #Mermay

TIME FOR THE MONTHLY ART CHALLENGE!!!!
MAY is the month for #Mermay #StarWars #MayDay #CincoDeMayo, and countless other celebrations.

May's Art Challenge is:
- draw anything you want
- any theme
- any prompt
- any art style
- digital or traditional, any medium

You must mashup two different subjects/inspirations into one drawing.
ex: my drawing is a mashup of MerMay, Azteca Moderno, Chicano and Pencil Wars.

TO DO:
Pick any two subjects/inspirations
draw something
post here on this channel.

WHY?!
At the end of the month, I will share all entries on one of my livestreams and then give away some prizes at random. RANDOM!
THE MORE TIMES YOU POST IN THE DISCORD CHANNEL, THE MORE TIMES YOUR NAME GOES ON THE GIVEAWAY!!!

HOW WIN?
ONE RANDOM WINNER FOR INTERNATIONAL
ONE RANDOM WINNER FOR USA
SEVERAL WINNERS BY WHAT I LIKE.

WHO?
Open to All Sketching and Drawing members.
if you post on IG or Twitter, then use hashtag so I can like your posts:
#MayMashupArtChalllenge #SDMonthlyChallenge

JOIN THE DISCORD:
https://discord.gg/Aztw26azaZ

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Azteca Moderno - ATL Library Exhibit

1/12/2023

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Four paintings by DTM will share a wall at the Atlanta Public Library, Kirkwood Branch from January to March 2023

The Azteca Moderno series began as an exercise in revisiting my family history from Mexico City, to the small town we all come from deep in Aztec Country - Tixca (Tecatitlan/Acatlitan as far as I remember the spelling, will look it up later), and then all the way to the streets of East LA where many a mural tells the story of the Aztec Empire, Gods and Goddesses and of course, Chicanos.

Azteca Moderno is the modern representation of Aztec Gods and Goddesses with a CyberFunk twist. The Art Style combines the comics I grew up reading and the paint brush style of fine art. There are no weapons in Azteca Moderno, instead the Gods carry creative tools like pencils, pens, markers and spray cans.

Details on the paintings are below, visit the library and hang out with some art!

Cuatlicue - Aztec Goddess

Acrylic and Markers on Canvas
2016 by @DeltaTangoMike
$2,500

Coatlicue, (Nahuatl: “Serpent Skirt”) Aztec earth goddess, symbol of the earth as both creator and destroyer, mother of the gods and mortals.

Huitzilopchtli - Aztec God

30X40
Acrylic and Markers on Canvas
2017 by @DeltaTangoMike
$1,500

Huitzilopochtli, also spelled Uitzilopochtli, also called Xiuhpilli (“Turquoise Prince”) and Totec (“Our Lord”), Aztec sun and war god, one of the two principal deities of Aztec religion, often represented in art as either a hummingbird or an eagle.

Quetzalcoatl - Aztec God
30X40
Markers on Canvas
2017 by @DeltaTangoMike
$1,500

Quetzalcoatl ("feathered serpent" or "plumed serpent") is the Nahuatl name for the Feathered-Serpent deity of ancient Mesoamerican culture. In Mesoamerican myth Quetzalcoatl is also a mythical culture hero from whom almost all mesoamerican peoples claim descent.

Mecha Goddess

Acrylic and Markers on Canvas
2017 by @DeltaTangoMike
$3,500

Azteca Moderno is the modern representation of Aztec Gods and Goddesses with a CyberFunk twist. There is more to come.

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