2024
Fluorescent paint / Gold Leaf / Canvas
In 2024 I started experimenting with Fluorescent paints to make black light artwork. I’ve always loved black light art and I wanted to make something that looks great in both normal light and black light.
2024
Watercolor & India Ink on Illustration Board
This piece came about for a tattoo-inspired art show that got cancelled. I tried to channel the feel of the traditional Japanese Koi tattoo with my own aesthetics. I don’t often work in watercolor so it was a great chance to exercise that skill.
2023
Acrylic on canvas
18 x 24
This piece came about from a find of a child’s journal in a Goodwill bin. The journal was of a journey to Africa, where he made friends with tribesmen and ate exotic foods. For most this would have been the trip of a lifetime, and a memory that you would hold on to forever. But this journal was discarded, sent for donation. What happened to the child?
I decided to use the journal pages as the foundation of a piece that explores what we leave behind. What memories do we keep, and what ones do we discard?
Below are the journal pages before painting:
