Curvy Jones on: SO fierce! I can’t!

It has happened. I have met HotPants Dave and it was faaaabulouuuusss… He is SO sweet and personable and down to earth. He spent a couple of minutes telling us about himself. Dave went to art school and studied illustration. Wanted to work for Disney more than anything, so when he got a job as a visual merchandiser, he thought it would be great but it was really just moving things around and not creating. He worked his way through a few departments at Disney, learning to sculpt and paint and draw outside of his usual genre. He was living in Orlando, working where he could work, until his roomate saw an ad for HGTV’s Design Star and he applied. At the time, it was not announced that it would be a reality show. Designers applied, viewers voted online, easy and subdued.

THEN he found out that Design Star was a reality show, and he had to move to New York for 5 weeks! He went through the process, did his best, thought it’d be a quick and dirty thing, and ended up winning. That, as they say, was all she wrote and we now have his hit TV show Colorsplash which has just filmed it’s 3rd season and was renewed for a 4th!

Dave answered tons of questions on color as the spokesman for Mythic paints. People were encouraged to bring photos and have questions. I love that he took each question seriously and asked a lot of followup questions — what mood are you going for, how much light does the room get, do you want to be brave with color? And he was also honest in that you don’t always need a ColorSplash– if you spend a ton of money on expensive materials, you probably want a classy, muted look, not something bold and bright. I watch HGTV a LOT (for a young person) so I loved hearing his advice and seeing the photos that people brought. Great turn out, the room was full.

Below are some photos and video! You can’t really hear him but who cares? ARMS!!!

Curvy Jones is a northerner playing a southerner who is living, working, playing in metro Atlanta.

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