Please come join us and view my new paintings, my friend Ginger’s beautiful photos, and listen to the music stylings of Marc Williams and Mark Quark.
This card was created by combining a pencil drawing of the deer with an ink drawing of the flowers and plants digitally, and the color was also applied digitally. We love mixing hand-done and digital mediums!
These are from a series of illustrations I did for Cigar Snob magazine. The turnaround was tight, but I’m happy with the way they turned out! I love doing editorial illustrations and had a lot of fun with the project.
This piece is about the cycles of birth, life, and death, not one of which could exist without the others.
This is an oil painting about the magic of manifestation. The pink bubbles represent wishes and desires that are manifested into reality. This piece will appear in a show at Junc Boutique at 2205 Fern St. in South Park. The opening is Saturday, March 28th from 6-10p, so check it out if you’re around!
I may be holding on to this one, but make me an offer I can’t refuse, and who knows?
This piece has been accepted for a juried art show at the City of Brea Art Gallery and is currently on display there until May 2009.
At first glance, it seems like a very light-hearted expression of two young wild animals; however, the name hints at darker implications. The fawn, amazed by the unusual bunny, is content just to touch noses with him to see if he’s real. However, the hunter, seeing the unique “specimen,” cannot rest until he kills it to stuff and add to his trophy room.
The piece is a statement on humankind’s appreciation of beauty. As humans, we all have differing levels of the same disease; we cannot simply appreciate beauty without desiring to own it. Whether the object of beauty is a member of the opposite sex, a fancy house, or a diamond ring, it remains meaningless to us unless we can claim it as our own.
These pieces were done to show the beauty of death, which while tragic, is also the ultimate progression. They are currently in the gallery at the Art Institute of California-San Diego until April 2009 and are available for purchase. Contact me if you’re interested.
This is a detail from my piece “The Fox Knows Many Things,” done for a show at Junc Boutique at 2205 Fern St. in South Park. The opening is Saturday, March 28th from 6-10p, so check it out if you’re around!
So my new passion this year is oil painting. I only started using oils in January 2009, so I’m still pretty rough around the edges with it, but I’m having fun experimenting and not worrying about the results too much.
This is the first oil painting I did, for my cat who was in his last days at the time. The cherry blossoms are used to represent the fragility of life and therefore mean to enjoy life to the fullest while we have it. The name (Layzee Dayzee) comes from a technical bird guide which claims that this is the sound this particular bird makes—how funny!