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:
When my kids were little we watched a lot of Spongebob. We were at ground zero, catching it when it first aired. The surreal humor, the timing, the writing that both adults and kids could appreciate? It was magic. To later find out that the series was inspired by the Ween song “Ocean Man” made it even more amazing.
I had been meaning to do this tribute to the episode “Graveyard Shift” (S02E16) Where at the end, the lights start flickering and the crew of the Crusty Crab wonder who the culprit is, only to find out it is Nosferatu!
It’s just so out there. What kid is going to know Nosferatu? I loved it. So here is my tribute.
