postcards

A series of abstract watercolors on postcards from this weekend

self portrait in process

I haven't really been recording the painting's evolution like I wanted to. This isn't done (although it's technically due tomorrow...) but you can get a drift of where it's going. A lot of it was actually just done with my fingers.


self portrait
November 2009
30" x 40"
oil on canvas



One of two palettes

self portrait studies

oil on primed paper about a 8" x 10"


sketches in pen with some graphite from sketchbook


small ink study about 3"x 5" on a watercolor postcard

monday night figure drawing

Stanford students have started free figure drawing sessions on Monday nights in the Cummings art building. These are a few sketches from the night, most of the drawings are from short poses.


10min charcoal


20 min charcoal


10 min ink wash


10 min ink wash


20 min ink wash

Phantom Pains Reception

The reception for Phantom Pains last night was a total success (thank you to all who came out.) Here are a few photos from the event (they don't really show the whole space/ the peak of the event, but you get the drift):













The show is up till the 20th of November, so check it out anytime!

self-portrait studies

Starting a new self-portrait project in painting II; this is just a photo I'm using as a jumping point.

my show

come see phantom pains pretty please.
extra points for coming to the reception.

recently finished pieces

white buffalo
58" x 60"
oil on canvas
october 2009


30" x 40"
oil on canvas

(and its recently changed study:)

white buffalo

take 0


take 1


take 2 (from my macbook camera... doesn't count)

nocturn layer 2

I'm frustrated by this photo because it seems to have lost all the nuances of the many tinted layers. I think I want to leave it similar to this, I really like all the textures of thick and thin that you only get when you see it in person.

more figure drawing

Just came across more figure sketches and thought I might upload them for posterity's sake...

The first three are from a series of quick studies (no more than 5 -10 mins each I think) at the Cantor Arts Center's Rodin sculpture garden last fall:




These other two are much older, they are both from a night class in fall 2006

(here my drawing was printed on a transparency, painted in layers, then cut out for a paper doll project...which I might end up uploading in a later post)

grey and ink

ink and watercolor on paper
grey study


more grey experiments

nocturn ongoing

studies for nocturn painting:



layer 1:

layers 2-4:

good girl

good girl
60" x 58"
oil on canvas
October 2009

I'm stuck on this one, I know it isn't quite done, I think there is more build up that needs to happen in the liver tones before it really speaks to me. This is done over the second and central canvas of Ark.


Photos from the studio:

bad man

bad man
58" x 60"
oil on canvas
october 2009

Yes, I'm keeping the zebra. It's painted over the first panel of my Ark triptych and will be part of my Phantom Pains show in Stanford's Cummings Art Building lobby from November 10th - 20th.

abstracts from stanford

electrophoresis
30" x 40"
oil on canvas
september 2009


love you like me
30" x 40"
oil on canvas
september 2009

figure drawing

contour 5 min sketches with left hand spring 2009

study from anatomy workshop spring 2008

sketches from PALA night figure drawing spring 2009

drawings from Cornish (when I visited Kelsey in Seattle, spring 2009)

Jared Hunt sitting in AP Bio bored so stiff I could get away with drawing him (2006ish)...