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My name is Shannon Smith. I live and work in Moncton, New Brunswick on Canada’s East Coast with my wife and two children. I like to make interesting images of interesting people.
If you would like more information about acquiring my services or my art for personal or commercial use, you can contact me at stickpinstudio@gmail.com

Favorite quotes:

One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.

- Bertrand Russell

I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use, silence, exile, and cunning.

- James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man


Literature encourages tolerance — bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts, because they're so preoccupied with their beliefs and actions that they can't see them also as possibilities.

- Northrop Frye - The Educated Imagination

Elwood: It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses.
Jake: Hit it.

- The Blues Brothers

*Note: I really appreciate it when folks visit my stream and take the time to post comments on my work. Thank you for that. Although I am genuinely flattered when someone enjoys one of my images, I should point out that I do delete comments with trophies, awards, images and anything that dances or flashes. I have not done this in the past, but have taken up the practice as I find those things distracting. Thanks again and have a great day.