I painted this piece back in 2016, around the time I had started adding collage elements into my work. This piece was an attempt to not use every color ever made in one of my paintings.

This commissioned piece required some research on my part. The client wanted a piece for her mother who was a Reiki master/teacher and an Akashic Records reader, which I had never heard of, so I started looking into it.

This piece began as another experimental mixed media. I had such success with “Breached” that I wanted to do it again! This initial under painting was done some time in 2015, I stared at it in this phase for probably a couple months. I finally decided it wasn’t going to work as well as Breached.

I painted this piece back in 2016, around the time I had started adding collage elements into my work. This piece was an attempt to not use every color ever made in one of my paintings.

This painting is the first really complex piece of my New Orleans series. When I started it, I had no idea it would send me down a path of painting so many pieces of these New Orleans street scenes. This piece is pretty special to me as I took the photo on my first trip there.

This piece began as such an ugly painting, but it reminded me that no matter how much you want to give up on a piece, DON’T. It can always turn around and be salvaged. Unfortunately I don’t have a photo of the entire first layer of this piece but here is a close up of the crow and the surrounding area. It looks like rough to put it nicely.

Before I go into the process behind this piece, I want to explain its personal significance. This is not only number eleven of my ongoing New Orleans series, it is also a self portrait of me on Halloween dressed as the amazing Frida Kahlo, at one of my favorite bars in Nola, Sylvain.

This commission was painted in 2017 for a good friend and huge hawks fan. Being one myself, I was pretty excited to complete this piece. The first step was a VERY basic sketch, if I didn’t know what the end result was supposed to be I would have no idea what the sketch was supposed to be depicting.

This will probably be my shortest blog post as I painted this piece back in 2016, before I decided to make a real effort to fully document the progress of my work, however my process is still very similar to what it is now. It started with a very simple sketch, and a block in of lights and darks.