A manifestation of my love for bumpy-scaly reptiles and amphibians. Especially toads like this one---when captured with flash photography, their blank stares and chubby features are on full and glorious display, and I think they are absolutely hilarious. For his warts, I applied small pellets of watercolor ground to the paper before painting so there were literal bumps raised above the surface of the paper.

A portrait collage in homage to Cam Grants of the H3 Podcast. If you know, you know---and if you don't, there is a 99% chance you never will.

This piece began as just an exercise in depicting hands. I took the approach of drawing each and every of the distinct planes that I could observe on each hand, as opposed to attempting their organic shape from the get-go. I intended from the beginning to involve a bright and vibrant color scheme, but it wasn’t until the drawing was complete that I knew how I would do it. I kept visible the sharp, angular planes of the hands, then painted the planes in an array of solid colors, adjusting their value from plane to plane to depict light and shadow. This ended up being much more interesting to me than just using the cues of the planes to depict the natural contours of the hands.

A scene from a golden early morning in the Elk Valley of Rosebud, SD. Rosebud is a Native-American reservation to which I've been numerous times. The landscape in Rosebud is gorgeous, with lots of variation in terrain and geography. High elevations, incredibly deep valleys and gorges, rollings hills, badlands, and thick forest---with lots of little scenic gems to be found in and around each. It is a special place.

Another of the manifestations of my adoration for the gone-too-soon, one-of-a-kind, greatest-of-all-time Jimi Hendrix. An academic study, it was done in monochrome to simplify the task of portraiture.

This was the first academic watercolor painting I made, done in monochrome so that we could focus on getting values right before confounding the task with color. It's from a breakfast spin on beef pot roast served at S2S---it's been a while since it's been on the menu, and I cannot wait for its return.

Made for a friend of mine, who asked for a painting of a particular pasta dish which he made regularly for his girlfriend. The piece was a gift for her upon her arrival in the United States.