archives
not sure if I was in school yet, but ‘first flowers’ (below) was painted when I was a young kid and given to my dad where it hung at his desk at work for close to 30 years. he brought it home with him once he retired a couple years ago and has given it back to me to keep in my collection.
first flowers | 8” x 9.5” | water based paint on scrap cardboard
this next work ‘cala lily’ was done in elementary school, I think it was second, maybe third grade. I remember doing a lot of floral paintings and drawings in school and this one lasted all those years. fun to look back on what I was creating as a kid.
calla lily | 9” x 15” | pastel on construction paper
the painting below ‘ode to monet’ was done in about 15 minutes as a quick exercise for my college watercolor class - we were asked to go to the library, pick out an artist book of work an re-create a painting from it. I chose a painting by monet of mont st. michel and am very please with how this impromptu work turned out.
ode to monet | 15” x 11” | watercolor on paper
I was even lucky enough to see the original of this work in person when visiting giverny in 2019.
untitled | 10.5” x 6.75” | watercolor on paper
distracted | 16” x 20” | watercolor on textured paper
“in this bright future you can’t forget your past.”
‘philly front doors’ was created in 2020 - during the very early stage of the pandemic, around May. I was planning to move to philadelphia that following month, and due to the state of the world…my plans changed. I was unsure of my next steps at the time, but painted this to bring some of that philly charm to my one bedroom apartment in connecticut.
philly front doors | 10” x 15” | watercolor on paper
wipe out | 24” x 15” | watercolor on paper
‘storybook’ (below) was another school assignment. We were tasked with re-painting an image from a children’s book as most of the illustrations in those are done in watercolor. I can’t remember the book I chose, but I was proud of this painting and liked the image enough to hang onto it.
storybook | 9.5” x 12.5” | watercolor on paper
untitled | 8” x 7” | watercolor on paper
song tree | 11” x 15” | watercolor on paper
The next work is very near and dear to my heart - samson. he was my first and best pup and sadly passed away in 2021 at the age of 12. A few years earlier, when he was about 8 I was sitting with him and decided to do a blind contour drawing of his cute face (what you see below).
It looked just like him and I enjoyed it so much that a couple years later, I decided to get a tattoo of it on my right forearm. now, he’s always with me.
samson | sharpie on paper
swoop | 12” x 9” | watercolor on paper
