Illustration &
Fine Art
My art style is shaped by my background in studio art—painting, printmaking, and photography—and a deep-rooted drive for precision.
Influenced by my digital work, I focus on clean lines and meticulous detail, often obsessing over elements most might overlook. At my core, I’m an artist who also happens to be a designer.
Drawing
Painting
Silkscreen Printing
Block Printing
Bookbinding
Whale Shark Frenzy
A series of four linoleum block prints with chine collé details.
Sketching
There were a few variations of the whale shark illustration before I settled on this one. Ultimately, I enjoyed the motion of this shape and wanted to focus on the pattern of the shark.
Hand Carving
The whale shark in the foreground and the coral in the background were hand-carved onto two separate blocks in order to create a layered image.
Chine Collé Method
I wanted the finer details of the whale shark to be white while keeping the colored paper as the overall background.
This led me to using the printmaking technique of chine collé, where I printed the whale shark on thin rice paper and the coral onto a heavier stock, then ran the entire work through the press in order to bond the two sheets.
Surrounded by Everything and Nothing
A meticulous, hand-cramping, “trying my damndest not to smudge ink all over the paper” perspective study. Gives that feeling you can only get in a big city, where you’re never alone but frequently lonely.
Ink Work
I made this drawing on paper and pencil first, refining my lines and details, before tracing with Micron pens onto a new sheet of paper for a cleaner look. I filled in the larger areas with Winsor & Newton India Ink.
BERMUDA
Hand-bound book with screen-printed illustrations of Bermudian architecture.
Colophon
Buildings in Bermuda are required to have a white roof and be painted in pastel hues. For many years, I have been drawn to the color relationships between the architecture and the sky. This book featured abstract representations of that relationship.
The images were screenprinted in Speedball ink on Stonehenge paper. The font is Caviar Dreams Bold. This book was printed in April 2019.
Only three copies were produced.
Concepting
Each print was modeled on a photograph that I had taken on my trips to Bermuda. I created a simplistic outline of each building, noting the colors in the original photo.
Screenprinting
The images were screenprinted with Speedball ink on Stonehenge paper, using three silkscreen frames and sixteen total stencils. The Bermuda long-tail on the cover was hand-painted.
The ink colors used in this book were all mixed by hand, allowing me to get picky and precise when it came to color matching the buildings. The sky was a bright, uniform blue.
I had to be meticulous when it came to lining up the buildings and the sky, using negative space to create a white outline around the buildings for that extra “pop.”
A Study in Patience
Acrylic painting on canvas, based on a beloved photograph of the Hamilton Princess.
Line Work
I took a photo while on vacation in Bermuda and immediately, I knew I wanted to recreate it as a painting. I began with sketches on paper before translating to paint and canvas. All of the intricate line work was freehanded.
Are you picking up on a theme of fine lines yet?
Assorted Works
A variety of one-off things that I’ve created with my own two hands that are just a bit too nice to go onto the “Doodles!” page.
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