This gallery shows works that do not fall into any series. Instead the works are figure studies, still lives, and sketches for other works.
oil on canvas, 2014
20" x 28"
Oil on canvas, 2014
20" x 22"
Oil on canvas, 2012
Oil on canvas, 2014
16" x 22"
Flesh, sinew, blood, bone, and dust. In the midst of the Holocene extinction, a human-caused event, biodiversity dwindles. Using India ink applied with nibs on watercolor paper I attempt to capture the visual transition from life to history by portraying recently extinct animals and their anatomy. The purpose of these ink drawings, made to be reminiscent of old dictionary illustrations, are to force people to look at realities that may be unpleasant to consider.
This is an ongoing series that currently depicts the quagga (hunted to extinction for competing with domestic livestock, extinct in 1878), passenger pigeon (loss of habitat and mass extermination, extinct in 1914), Caspian Tiger (overhunting , habitat depletion, and loss of prey to domestic animal diseases, considered extinct in 1990’s), and the Bubal hartebeest (mass extermination during African colonization and overhunting, considered extinct in the 1930’s).
India ink on watercolor paper, 2014
Unframed dimensions: 12in x 8.5in
Framed dimensions: 20in x 16.5in
India ink on watercolor paper, 2014
Unframed dimensions: 12in x 8.5in
Framed dimensions: 20in x 16.5in
India ink on watercolor paper, 2013
Unframed dimension: 8.5in x 12in
Framed dimensions: 16.5in x 20in
India ink on watercolor paper, 2013
unframed dimensions: 12in x 8.5in
Framed dimensions: 20in x 16.5in
Captive male, gouache on watercolor paper, 2015
semi captive female, gouache on watercolor paper, 2015
semi captive female, gouache on watercolor paper, 2015
semi captive female, gouache on watercolor paper, 2015
about to roll, gouache on watercolor paper, 2015
browsing, gouache on watercolor paper, 2015
extinct subspecies of plains zebra, gouache on watercolor paper, 2015
captive female, gouache on watercolor paper, 2015
gouache on watercolor paper, 2015
Motionless. Stationary. Silent. These works explore lives stilled by death. Each creature shown met a violent end be it in a slaughter house, road kill, a storm, or a bullet. These works are not meant to be an emotional response to death, instead it is death viewed with acceptance.
triptych, Oil on canvas
2013
Oil on canvas
15.25 in x 32in
2015
female cardinal, gouache on rabbit skin glue primed paper, 2015
White tailed deer skull and jaw
Oil on canvas, 2014
40" x 35"
Lamb's head
Oil and blood on canvas, 2014
42" x 32"
oil on canvas, 2014
33" x 32"
Oil and blood on canvas, 2013
37" x 58"
roadkill opossum, prismacolor on paper, 2013
Anatomy studies and technical drawings from 2013; mostly featuring animal skulls and the decay of an opossum over a period of 3 months (Winter 2013).
Wild Boar skull
india ink on panel, 2013
Jack rabbit skull
India ink on panel, 2013
Bob cat skull
India ink on panel, 2013
Opossum
Silverpoint on panel, 2013
Beaver skull, 2013
India Ink on panel
Coyote skull, 2013
India ink on panel
Raccoon Skull, 2013
India ink on panel
Deer skull, 2013
India ink on panel
Balance is a triptych painted in egg tempera and gouache on Korean paper. The paper is laid over the old and torn washi paper of a folding shoji screen. Each panel explores a different aspect of the balance of life and death. The first panel “Denial” represents the fragile fabric of life, for every summer there is a winter. The second panel “Mortification” is self-destruction. The third panel “Acceptance” can be read from either top to bottom or bottom to top, a cycle.
A tri-fold screen displaying the delicate balance between death and life. Egg tempera, water color, and gouache on Korean rice paper.
Intaglio etching, Aquatint, and wood cut prints.
Etching and Aquatint on rag paper, 2014
Color state of this plate
Aquatint and etching on Chine-colle and paper
Dead Coyote, Glen Rose, TX
intaglio etching, 2013
An early state of this plate
Etching on rag paper 2014
Later state of this plate
Etching on Chine-colle and rag paper 2014
Etching and Aquatint on rag paper, 2014
Duel color state of this plate
Etching and Aquatint, 2014
Aquatint and etching, 2014
Fox-Bat creature
Duel color state of this plate
Aquatint and etching, 2014
Duel color state of this plate
Aquatint and Etching, 2014
Etching and Aquatint, 2014
Etching, 2014
Drawings in India Ink
India ink on watercolor paper, 2013
Study of one of the oldest animals still in existance
India ink on watercolor paper, 2013
The dinosaur bird
Terracotta, terra sigillata, and underglaze
anatomy study, 2013
terracotta, terra sigillata, and underglaze, 2013
terracotta, and underglaze, 2013
Ceramic, PVC, wire, bricks, wood, and bones (of horse, coyote, elk, beaver, skunk, mice, and prairie dogs) Summer 2014, Taos, NM
Taos, NM, 2014
