'Balloon Guy 3' by Nick Sanders

The perfect pop of color!This signed piece features painted details on a photographic print, highlighting Sanders’ shift from commercial photography into a fine art practice that embraces bold color, process, and the handmade. About the ArtistNicholas Sanders is a Texas-based artist working across photography, video, and painting. With a decade of experience in commercial and editorial photography, Sanders brings a practiced eye for light, color, and composition into a fine art practice that is deeply personal and experimental. His current body of work involves painting directly onto photographic prints — a tactile process that blurs the boundaries between documentation and invention. Figures are often obscured or faceless, placed in staged environments saturated with bold color and emotional ambiguity. This evolution grew out of a desire to inject more soul into his image-making and to embrace imperfection, intimacy, and the handmade. Alongside his fine art work, Sanders has spent yea