old work

So I did this charcoal drawing in a figure drawing class way back in college. I’m not sure what prompted me to draw my classmates instead of the model… maybe it was the way I was angled towards the mirror… maybe I just started sketching and messed up my sense of scale, ending up in […]

It’s really difficult for me to make a claim that I am (somewhat) a self-taught artist. The truth of the matter is, I have taken art classes… tons of them. But the problem with the art classes I took was that barely any of them taught me any techniques. When I was in college, practically […]

So last week I posted a painting I did for Painting with a Twist. In that article, I stated that I did about three or so paintings for an internal contest for the company. Here is one of the three I made back in 2014; This painting is immensely simple, and out of the three […]

I just ran in the rain yesterday. Depending on the kind of rain it is, it’s really fun to do so. Yesterday wasn’t too bad. It was a nice breezy 58 degrees Fahrenheit, so it wasn’t freezing weather to be running in. I had fun jogging along getting wet until halfway through a flash of […]

I posted this photo study of Rachel McAdams last Sunday along with a bunch of other photo studies I did around 2012-2015. Shortly after this series of studies I did, I started doing master studies, which is also another great form of studying. Life studies are obviously the best form of studying… but in the […]

Looking back at this particular piece gave me some memories; Not too long ago I posted an artwork that set me on the path to doing drippy acrylic paintings. This is one of the paintings from that particular set. I honestly love this particular painting, even though now I consider it “immature.” As I had […]

I totally forgot throwback Thursday, but hey it’s never late so long as I post 😀 . This week’s look-back will take us to one of my more successful experiments in portrait paintings; Before this particular painting, I wouldn’t typically tone my canvas. But for some odd reason when I was working on this portrait, […]