Brief Statement

This body of work is being developed as a part of my senior thesis this year. It began as a body of work based on the idea of a feminine image strongly influenced by 20th century pin-up girl images.
Pin-up artists that I love:

Alberto Vargas
Gil Elvgren
George Petty
Olivia de Berardinis
Peter Driben
Art Frahm
Carlos Cartagena
The "Girls Club": Joyce Ballantyne, Pearl Frush, and Zoe Mozert

The pair of images at the top are two small acrylic paintings on paper - both in-progress and far from finished. Both paintings are supposed to simultaneously represent David and Judith.

W.I.P. - "Self-Portrait of the Artist As Model".

Watercolor & graphite on Arches Cover. 2010. 22"x30".

"Untitled (diptych)". Watercolor and graphite on Rives BFK. 2010. 11"x17"

(I'm in the middle of mounting these onto black paper, so they soon will be 15.5"x19")

Just a studio shot of the big panel painting I've got going on right now - I took this picture today and it's already changed. The plan is to get this one and the small painting to the left finished by next Monday, and I cross my fingers.

These works were all completed in the spring of 2010 from life, using a Wacom Tablet.

(so strange to do observational work looking at a computer screen, the subject, and making digital marks on a completely different surface with a stylus. I found it freeing, constricting, strange - something that could be mastered with time and effort but it would be a matter of getting the right program and a drive to do it.

It makes sense that this would be the wave of the future though - any color in endless quantity right next to your image, no mess, any kind of brush or size... kind of amazing.

Everyone who likes observational drawing and painting should try it just once, I think.

Two stages of an interior digital painting, drawn from life on a Wacom Tablet. Untitled - the second one is the finished version, obviously.

2009 Prints

"Pastoral Fantasm". Lithograph. 2009. 16" x 19".

"Sweet Freedom Whispered In My Ear". Lithograph. 2009. 18" x 22".

"Alternate Selves". Lithograph. 2009. 18"x 26".

2010 Prints - Pinned Up & Down

All of the following are part of a 2010 folio. Each image is screenprinted with acrylic inks, on Rives BFK paper. 11"x17".

"Out of Frame". Monoprint.

"Nina". Monoprint.

"Nina". Monoprint.

"Songbird I". Edition of 5.

"Songbird." Monoprint.

"Songbird III". Edition of 5.

"Going Stag". Edition of 5.

"Going Stag". Varied edition of 5.

"Dissolve". Varied edition of 10.

CV & Brief Selections of Work: '06 - '09