This piece was completed for Drawgasmic. Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids.

Completed: June 3, 2010
Size: 11 in (w) x 8.5 in (h)

Top to bottom, this piece is about basic things to find happiness in. When I was in elementary school, my family did a fair amount of driving across the country and simple things like rest stops were a welcome change of pace – I mean, at least it wasn’t a museum, famous canyon, rock formation, or something boring like that, right?

Completed: April 26, 2010
Size: 36 in (w) x 24 in (h)

Walk on the left when you’re on the side of a street, facing traffic. Stay on the right if you’re going to be moving slowly, let the faster people pass on the left. It’s a very basic system of basic courtesy that some still seem to have trouble grasping.

Completed: April 12, 2010
Size: 36 in (w) x 24 in (h)

Looking back, it seems like such a perfect coincidence since I’m fairly certain this is the same expression I had when I cut my finger, and this was the painting I was working on when it happened. I wanted to warp this face into an impossible expression for any reasonable human and managed to turn a face of extreme happiness into one that I now associate with pain. Great.

Completed: April 4, 2010
Size: 24 in (w) x 36 in (h)

This piece was started a few months ago, and was finally finished this week. I wanted to capture a lot of action in this piece in a way similar to how a photograph can freeze a single instantaneous movement.

Completed: March 17, 2010
Size: 36 in (w) x 24 in (h)

If it hasn’t come across yet, I think hair is really fun to paint. So here it is: hair and movement and oddly, a little Kanye West.

Completed: February 28, 2010
Size: 36 in (w) x 24 in (h)

Much like my inspiration for CRRDWY, my interest in mid-20th century military aircraft comes from the models that I would assemble as a child. I wanted to revisit this theme, and the paint scheme of the Curtiss P-40 was and still is one of the most iconic and striking paint schemes of the military. Worth painting.

Completed: February 14, 2010
Size: 36 in (w) x 24 in (h)

RNWY is a reflection of my interest in exploring fleeting expressions that only remain for a very short period of time before they are gone. Instead, here it is, captive and permanently frozen.

Completed: January 31, 2010
Size: 36 in (w) x 24 in (h)

This portrait of Miles Davis was inspired by a photo taken by Anton Corbijn of the jazz musician in a hotel room. This piece was a commission from a friend and I really struggled with the piece for months. I’d stop looking at it for a week, come back to it, make changes – I must have started over or made significant changes of direction at least 8 times.

Completed: January 25, 2010
Size: 24 in (w) x 36 in (h)

TRFFC combines many of the ideas that I have used in several of my previous paintings, so I’m leaving this one open to interpretation.

Completed: January 25, 2010
Size: 24 in (w) x 36 in (h)

This piece addresses the idea of the misrepresentation of beauty in advertising and other media. The image presented to us on a daily basis is not a true reflection of reality – just ask the person responsible for airbrushing the images you are striving to emulate.

Completed: January 17, 2010
Size: 24 in (w) x 36 in (h)