About My Work
I have experimented with a variety of media over the years. Pencil, pastel, pen & ink, acrylic, watercolor... While I loved working 2-dimensionally, I never enjoyed painting until 10th grade when I took private oil lessons from a local artist. I am a slow worker, so acrylics dried too quickly for me, and the perfectionist in me despised relinquishing control to the fluidity and independent nature of watercolors. When I was introduced to oil painting, it finally clicked! Here was a medium that I could layer indefinitely, paint lights on top of darks, mix any color I wanted, and took days to dry. Oil paints allowed me to be in full control of the process, and enabled me to fix any mistakes I made (adjusting proportions, colors, etc.) until my painting was just the way I wanted it.
Years later, I returned to watercolors and found that I didn't hate them quite so much. I love the way they organically capture light! Still, oils are my favorite medium, and the one I gravitate towards with most projects. While you might see the occasional graphite or pastel drawing, and several watercolors here and there, I work primarily in oils, and use my own photography or stock images, still life set-ups, and the great outdoors as models for my subjects. Check out the images below to see some progress shots of how I develop paintings.
Years later, I returned to watercolors and found that I didn't hate them quite so much. I love the way they organically capture light! Still, oils are my favorite medium, and the one I gravitate towards with most projects. While you might see the occasional graphite or pastel drawing, and several watercolors here and there, I work primarily in oils, and use my own photography or stock images, still life set-ups, and the great outdoors as models for my subjects. Check out the images below to see some progress shots of how I develop paintings.