for the kids...

cork and acrylic

11" x 14"

Visual Notes... the only way i remember

Lemon and Onion

Oil 12"x 12"

Trying to improve on my oil techniques. It was hard to get good definition, especially in the still life of the lemon and asparagus. The asparagus could use some help :) ... I'll just keep practicing.

Finished It Up...

I wanted to do something a bit more creative and unusual than the typical portfolio to guarantee a spot in the Rome program. So its pretty simple, just four sketches overlaying the letters ROMA. Its getting me excited already!

Phase 2

The front cover of the portfolio is finished, now I just

need to figure out what's going in it!

my studio... which also functions as a bedroom

The gigantic worktable that my dad and I built (really my dad did most the

work and I got to do the fun and easy part of staining it).

Well, as you can see, I still have a ways to go on the cutout artwork.

At least I've got the hanging mechanism all finished up.

... a few years ago

8" x 14" - 2B pencil

In 2008 I was down in Texas at UTA for an intensive Introduction to Architecture course. One of our exercises was to practice tonal values and gradation scales. This is one of the cast stone ornaments in the courtyard of the architecture building.