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Ink on Paper. 14 x 17 in. 2019
Once, on a night dive, I saw a juvenile angelfish just about an inch long. I will always remember how amazed I was when I learned that as an adult it looks completely different.
Inspired by the hot air balloons that float around wine county
The shape of the peyote will always present a worthy canvas to me
The penciled silhouette shape of the cormorant bird comes from a photo I took on Lake Merritt, I then drew around it.
Just an all-out color assault on the clean white paper. Nothing in mind but playful shapes, color, lines… No orientation, no start, no finish…
Abstract figure surrounded by some sort of asterisks…
The ever present flower, in reddish tones.
A playful abstract takes the shape of a flower, kind of.
Abstract figure… I still have not figured out why I like this one, but I do.
From a series of bar napkins drawn at Cafe Zoetrope
Abstract sketch that ended up looking like an old man kissing some sort of mola mola looking fish.
I once found some photos that my father took of various ceremonial masks from the Dyaks of Kalimantan in the island of Borneo in Indonesia. I took the mouth on one with the eyes of another and made my version of a Dyak mask. I find them strikingly intense and love the simple and basic red, black and white colors.
I once saw a manta ray come out straight up, full body, out of the water. It was such a WOW moment for me that it inspired this sketch on a notebook that I later scanned and now looks like this.
Made it while living in Amsterdam, practicing with color and inspired by Dutch flowers.
This one took me a while, and it’s mostly a practice of detailed replication. I was taking many classes on art and history of Mesoamerica and the lid to the sarcophagus of king Pacal in Palenque was one of my favorite examples of Mayan art.
Inspired by the heavy symbolism that crosses convey. Drew it while traveling over a year in Indonesia. I begin to work with very thin point black ink pens.
