See You Next Year!

My favorite winter icon is the snowman.  I have a collection of them which I display every year for Christmas.  

Medium: watercolor and acrylic on watercolor paper
Dated: 2020
Original size: 12"x 9"

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Coffee Mug

Still life drawings are done slowly and the purpose is to capture not only the correct proportions of an object but to capture as much volume and shadow detail as possible in order to give the impression of what the object looks like in real life.  

This painting was my first still life done using acrylic.

    

Medium:  Acrylic on canvas paper    
Dated: 2010
Original size: 8"x10"

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Winter Fairy

This illustration was an assignment I had in the Design class I took in the Fall of 2011.  I had to demonstrate emphasis using value and movement within the composition, the difference between texture/pattern and background/foreground, it had to include a texture illusion or "Trompe L'Oeil", and it needed to be mono-chromatic.  For the texture illusion, I used a silver mesh fabric for part of her wings.

I love this piece and I am very happy with how it turned out.

Medium: Acrylic, Watercolor, and Prismacolor on Crescent Cold Press board
Dated: 2011
Original size: 30"x 20"

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Shooting Star

This illustration was an assignment I had in my Design class that I took in 2011.  I had to demonstrate asymmetrical balance, unity by continuation, and movement by multiple images.  I love space and astronomy and took the assignment as an opportunity to illustrate a comet traversing the universe prior to meeting its end in an explosion. 

Medium: Oil, acrylic, and Prismacolor on Cresent black board
Dated: 2011
Original size: 20"x 30"
Original Art: NFS

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Gary Oldman as Vlad Dracula the Impaler

"We Draculs have a right to be proud! What devil or witch was ever so great as Attila, whose blood flows in these veins!" 

When Francis Ford Coppola decided to make Bram Stoker's Dracula, he made a movie legend. Considered to be one of the few Dracula films that follows the original novel, Coppola blended the history of Vlad the Impaler with that of Dracula. 

How do you cast such a diverse and interesting lead role? Give it to Gary Oldman, one of Britain's finest character actors! This illustration is a tribute to the outstanding performance that Gary Oldman gave in the film Bram Stoker's Dracula. 

Medium: acrylic on canvas
Dated: 1995
Original size: 16"x 20"
Original Art: Sold on eBay 2011

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