painting

Acrylic on 9 x 12 canvas

Acrylic on 9 x12 canvas

Acrylic on 9 x 12 canvas

I had just started painting again and all the years if holding back...holding it in, caught up with me. California was burning and the demons inside of me were smoldering too, waiting to get out.

Painted with HIMI gouache.

Painted with HIMI gouache.

Lost in a crowd of one. The city crawls high. The sounds are intense. Lost in a crowd of just me.

Sketch of a painting I'm thinking about. I think as adults, we have our own ambitions about living on the moon. However, once we have children, we can only yearn to be able to live on the moon with them.

I did this painting in my younger years.

I was always painting dogs, but painted people for the first time in a while.

Mirrors. Shadows. Perception of self. What should have been. Could have been. Still is.

A data dump of emotion and frustration.

My daughter wanted a painting of a forest. This took me two weeks with acrylics.

I want to be inside the raindrop. I want know it. Feel it. Be it. Close containment. Single purpose One direction.  The rush. The thrill. Careening towards the earth. Would be a death race. But the fall is the journey. The crash. The release. Is just the beginning.

An idea I had, to couple semi-realistic versions of the adult Mario characters with the Street Fighter 3rd Strike character select screen.

We all see the world through a different lens. What I see, and express is different then what you will see. Your background is different. Your experiences are different. I know what I see. What about you?

Since I’m new I decided I would update something that shows kinda who I am! :) I made this in 2019 for my art class where we had to make a collage with drawings and words to describe myself. I love the way it turned out so it is for the first page in my current sketchbook.

Just a desert outpost. Brushpens and posca markers on acrylic underpainting.

Semi-abstract illustration painting on wood panel

A collection of butterflies, done with gouache in my mixed media sketchbook.

A little collection of mushrooms, done with gouache in my mixed media sketchbook. The process of painting with gouache is growing on me, it feels so satisfying.

Painted with watercolor and the gold brush pen.

Inktober 2020, Day 13: "Dune". After pondering for a while, whether I should come up with something surprising, I decided to go with what for me is the obvious association, the sci-fi book. I based it on this illustration of a sandworm (https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Sandworm?file=Dune-sandworm.jpg) by Nathan Rosario. It’s not meant to promote the now postponed new movie, but rather based on the books by Frank Herbert, which I loved as a teenager. Brushpens and posca markers on coloured A4, this time with an acrylic underpainting (falling back on my painterly ways). “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

A self portrait painted in Photoshop.

Minipainting (2.3x2.3 inches), done with gouache and ink in my mixed media sketchbook

2.3x2.3 inch painting with gouache and ink, done in my mixed media sketchbook.

Acrylic markers in mixed media sketchbook. This one is a bit rougher because my markers have medium sized nibs. I still enjoyed the process and the feel of the paint flowing onto the page.

24"×18" as a child there was always that one toy I was terrorfied of and it stayed in the deepest, darkest parts of my moms closet.