Character Study Homie 1

Drew this trying to get a more natural posture in my character drawings. Im very happy with how it turned out.  I modeled the guy to look like my friend Paige's boyfriend AJ.  I hope to do more with this stylized look.

Jungle Tribal #2

I love this piece, too bad my buddy Mike thought he could have it in return for helping me move a few times.  It depicts quite well the lush, glowing, and writhing nature of the jungles in my head.

Jungle Tribal #1

I think this might be the first true oil painting i ever did.  I knew I wouldn't be able to make it look realistic so instead I tried to break up the space well with interesting shapes and colors.  The patterning in the red fern reveals a hidden signature.  As far as the theme goes I have been moving in a very nature/tribal society direction with my art for awhile and this piece may have been the beginning to that move.

Old Man in the Sea

This was a painting i did based on a drawing i had done earlier. I was trying to create a benevolent water spirit, something old yet wise and amazing. I especially love the lion-fish style patterning.

Devotion Banner

This was a banner i did for my at the time girlfriend Kelsey. It symbolized the combination of the positive and nurturing life of my forest mixing with the her barren and bleak outlook on life and herself and creating a beautiful vista full of wonder, love, and extra big "feelers". this whole picture is a mass of mini metaphors for how much i loved her and how my life was hers . .

Crystal Jungle

This was the painting i did for Kelsey for Christmas. The vines and dark places represent the chaos the world puts into my heart and soul and the heart shaped fruits were the light that our love creates to illuminate and make beautiful even the scariest and darkest places in our lives.

View to Colorado

This was the second goblin valley painting i did. I was trying to capture the view from the top of the mesa looking back off the backside at the massive plain. It was life changing to be there in many ways, the largest change being i finally dropped my anti nature city boy stance and embraced the one thing about Utah that was certain. Its a damn beautiful place.

Bend in the Brook

This piece was one of the group inspires by the Angkor Wat ruins in Cambodia. I envisioned a place where artists toiled endlessly to keep the city from being swallowed by the tireless and starving jungle. I failed at a few of the ideas i wanted to implement like the cast shadows of the canopy foliage and the atmosphere . . oh well it was difficult to pull off with inks and by that point i didn't dare ruin the picture to experiment. I was already about 45 hours into it at that point.