Fine Artist and Illustrator
These are all examples of my drawing style. Most of these are pen and ink, but there are some charcoal and ink wash drawings as well. I like to switch between mixed media and drawing. Often, i'll do a series of black and white drawings that are pen and ink, and then do a series of works that are mixed media. The line between sketches and drawings can be vague, but as a general rule I consider drawings to be richer in build-up.
August 2012, intended as a backdrop for a short film directed by Michael Ficara
Think of these as neither painting nor drawing but a hybrid of the two. Pen and ink on drums, watercolors on bass guitar, air brush on synthesizer, acrylic paint on lead guitar, paint marker on vocals.
2008. Colored pencil, chalk pastel, watercolor and pen and ink on paper.
This page is for what I call detours: Artwork that isn't finished enough to be good, but isn't ambitious enough to be bad. So they represent those times when my ego has it's guard down, and I can have fun and cut loose.
This work was created primarily during 2010-2011, when I first began incorporating paint marker heavily into my work. This was a key addition, as it gave my mark making a more urban sensibility. (I sort of thought of paint markers at the time as the water-based answer to the oil paint stick.) It also imbued the surface of my drawings with a messy rawness, particularly when the paint markers would not cooperate and the paint would run. This contributed to the idea of entropy in my work; when some of the materials are not cooperating fully with the artist, it adds a slight sense of struggle to the overall image, which also indicates the passage of time. Eventually my materials would evolve and branch out beyond the deco-color brand I was using at the time. I began using acrylic ink and dip pens to mimic the paint-marker look, particularly when those markers began to break down. Eventually I wised up and began using different glazes on my work that would be kinder to the paint makers. Nowadays, I use the paint markers surprisingly little. I really see the drawing itself as the essential basis of the work now, and the paint markers as final-stage embellishments. However, this was a unique era in which I believed that the paint markers were a means to an end.
