"Car & Guitarless"
Model: Brandon Conway

From the "Mesh" exhibition; the piece is original photography edited in Photoshop, printed giclée onto canvas - and painted with acrylic paint. The measurements are 14 x 20", and is mounted in a custom black wooden frame. ½ of the artist's proceeds goes to benefit a registered 501(c)(3) charity of your choice. By clicking the icon to the right, you can download a PDF for more info on the material process...

"Woman Without Parasol"
Models: Laura Bisbee & Brandon Erickson

From the "Mesh" exhibition; the piece is original photography edited in Photoshop, printed giclée onto canvas - and painted with acrylic paint. The measurements are 14 x 20", and is mounted in a custom black wooden frame. ½ of the artist's proceeds goes to benefit a registered 501(c)(3) charity of your choice. By clicking the icon to the right, you can download a PDF for more info on the material process...

"My Body Betrays Me" (Sold)
Model: Celeste Shults

I actually waited until Fall to photograph dead leaves I had collected, to preserve authenicity and go with reddish/orange/yellow color scheme... Normally, I gravitate away from orange and yellows, because they remind me of earthtones, which in turn conjure up images of greasy, hairy-chested men from the 70's with lots of jewelry. Earthtones can be frightful, but when used in context of parchment, per say, or the sinuous lines of dancing flames - they can take on an elegant quality, which went hand-in-hand with the curling tendrils of the painted tiger-lily, and the visual colors of nature. One of the goals I had with this show was to force myself out of my comfort zone, even if it means using a palette I wouldn't normally prefer - it just has to be appropriate for the subject matter...

"The Wait" (Sold)
Model: Jeremiah Hayden

Creepy and ethereal, twisting and spiraling with mischievous eyeballs darting about - in this piece, I not-so-subtlely tip my hat to two dark-princes of the visual realm, Tim Burton (Nightmare before Christmas) and Neil Gaiman (The 'Sandman' graphic novels in particular...) The intense colors starkly contrasted with blacks and whites point to Burton, and the spikey-haired subject along with the dreamlike imagery is for Gaiman... I originally sketched the piece to contain a spoon and two cubes of sugar, to further the coffee/late-night imagery (I also sketched a sleeping cat who started to levitate, you can view it in this collection here.) Later, after working with the composition, I realized it would be too crowded to visually push them in, and the coffee alone is a strong symbol for 'the wait' itself... Jeremiah's hair was 'spiked' digitally, and the 'window' next to him is actually a collection of floor molding strips assembled with a hot glue gun...

"The Dance"
Models: Rachel & Jon Austin, Terah & Jake Herring

From the "Mesh" exhibition; the piece is original photography edited in Photoshop, printed giclée onto canvas - and painted with acrylic paint. The measurements are 14 x 20", and is mounted in a custom black wooden frame. ½ of the artist's proceeds goes to benefit a registered 501(c)(3) charity of your choice. By clicking the icon to the right, you can download a PDF for more info on the material process...

"Today Is Your Last" (NFS)
Models: Rosilyn Koupal & Cory A. Russell

Inspired by the film & graphic novel "From Hell", we may be looking at the harbinger of death - or is this perhaps the quiet conscience of artistic integrity?

"Stretching My Canvas" (Sold)
Models: Birdies!

When I lived in the second-story apex loft of "The Urban Ski Lodge" (an underground Portland concert venue - see my bio for more info,) I actually didn't have a door to my room (because it was triangle-shaped with standing room only in the middle,) so I chose to sew together a roughly hewn tent flap out of raw canvas. It reminded me of a frankenstein-creepy circus tent, so I went ahead and painted it with clowny-text to further the theme... I made a matching window cover using the same material. Every morning, I would wake to the sun hitting my canvas, and it would cast beautiful shadows of birds cooing, sitting atop power lines connected to our house (there was a nest outside my window.) Since I draw much of my inspiration from nature to create, I thought what a great subject it would be to focus solely on that - no humans. More or less, just birds and blank canvas. So literally, the digital imagery you see is a photo-montage of photographs I had taken in the early morning of actual silhouettes.

"Best If Consumed By Today"
Model: Amy Conway

From the "Mesh" exhibition; the piece is original photography edited in Photoshop, printed giclée onto canvas - and painted with acrylic paint. The measurements are 14 x 20", and is mounted in a custom black wooden frame. ½ of the artist's proceeds goes to benefit a registered 501(c)(3) charity of your choice. By clicking the icon to the right, you can download a PDF for more info on the material process...

"Elemental Atheism"
Model: Lisa Odegard

From the "Mesh" exhibition; the piece is original photography edited in Photoshop, printed giclée onto canvas - and painted with acrylic paint. The measurements are 14 x 20", and is mounted in a custom black wooden frame. ½ of the artist's proceeds goes to benefit a registered 501(c)(3) charity of your choice. By clicking the icon to the right, you can download a PDF for more info on the material process...

"Between the Waves"
Models: Wayne Miller & Dustin Ruth

From the "Mesh" exhibition; the piece is original photography edited in Photoshop, printed giclée onto canvas - and painted with acrylic paint. The measurements are 14 x 20", and is mounted in a custom black wooden frame. ½ of the artist's proceeds goes to benefit a registered 501(c)(3) charity of your choice. By clicking the icon to the right, you can download a PDF for more info on the material process...

"Long Journey" (NFS)
Model: Spencer Reynolds

Inspired by ancient Japanese warrior crests - I sought to convey the long, dusty and at times lonely road of strength, spiritual development, and maturity...

"Spreadin' the Gospel"
Model: Steve McCorkle

From the "Mesh" exhibition; the piece is original photography edited in Photoshop, printed giclée onto canvas - and painted with acrylic paint. The measurements are 14 x 20", and is mounted in a custom black wooden frame. ½ of the artist's proceeds goes to benefit a registered 501(c)(3) charity of your choice. By clicking the icon to the right, you can download a PDF for more info on the material process...