No real place

No real place to fit these drawings in according to some logic. But actually, they are all ideations on spaces. And in my way, that comes out as weird and associative, quickly rendered, and expressed through color.



ballpoint pen on paper



charcoal and pastel on vellum



pastel and ink on paper

Figure Drawings

Here's a selection of some older figure drawings. Most of these were done when I was in college, though a few are from one-off classes here and there.

Recent composite photos

Here are some more recent examples of digital manipulations.





Alia and her UFO sighting.





The red-man group in Reno.





Another Reno shot - Reno noir...





A group of images I put together from a walk about in Austin.


Shake it like a photoshopped pitshah...

Dippin n' trippin

This series of two older paintings is set up as a diptych (set of two panels side by side). When I made these, I was interested in painting at a level of abstraction that was more than broad strokes and bold expressions. I wanted to make abstract shapes contain a level of rendered detail, light, and illusionistic space, so that ambiguous form would begin to reveal the framework of a story or narrative. I think the imagery is suggestive of bodily parts, of a kinetic world of interiors turned outward, and of a moment of expired or suspended action.




"Dropping Non-sequitur"



"Spill your guts"




The second group is a triptych I made about a year later. My idea here was to use simple, bold graphic representations of almost elemental symbols: key, cup, knife. And then to give it a sense of drama as if these things somehow had an inner life of their own, as tools, but also as the symbol itself.

Old digital photo composites

In 2000, I made these composited photos. Most of them involve myself in situations or actions, and suggest a darkly humorous narrative. They were typically shot with a self-timer. I made them with the first digital camera I had ever. I'm sure it was like one-tenth of a megapixel. And I was using Photoshop 5.5. The good ole days...




With the amazing Shaka McGlotten

A couple of random sketches

My idea was a grid of vignette's with random imagery; some of it appears up-close, and some denotes space; some is graphically simple, others ambiguously abstract; and some of it is just weird.

Underwater animals getting the job done

My favorite progressive, non-profit consulting firm asked me to help update their business cards. Each person was to get a personalized sea creature (of their choosing) to go on the card. I illustrated the sea-life for the cards.


Mark's Leopard Shark:




Mars' Starfish:



Alia's Octopus:



Davis' Marlin:



Sarah's Coral: