I defintely used an unorthodox medium for this portrait! It is painted on a plate, using the sgrafitto technique (scratching into the "paint" or underglaze). I have developed a passion for ceramics and even have a potter's wheel and kiln. This is a red earthenware plate decorated with underglazes (colored oxides that are covered with a transparent glaze and fired in the kiln). Click on the thumbnail to see the face in more detail, or click here to see the whole plate.

From a fashion illustration class I attended at Otis. I don't know what this girl is wearing. But I had fun rendering it!

A "comp" - a quick, loose rough sketch (painted in gouache) for an illustration class. I think it was for a movie poster or something. The pose was painted from my imagination.

I love airbrushing (with my trusty Paasche), but fell away from it for a variety of reasons. (I'd like to get back to it, though.) This illustration was primarily created with an airbrush, but small details were added using colored pencils.

I found this silly picture (of two of my "made up" faces) in an old sketchbook. It's the only example of my airbrush work that I can find right now. It looks so '80s, so I added the "Very '80s Airbrush" title in Photoshop.

A very small (5" or so) alkyd painting on canvas. I was in a "Lost Boys" mood, so I painted this psuedo-vampire guy from my imagination.

The background shows two different sides - the dark and spooky side to the left, and the bucolic and spring-like side to the right. I guess this vampire guy is trying to decide which "side" he's on!

"Pointillist" colored pencil. An assignment for color theory class. This whole picture is comprised of blue, red and yellow colored pencil marks. When you look at the picture from a distance, your eye "blends" in the color, and you see flesh tones, etc.

This drawing got really messed up (torn and stained) but thanks to Photoshop, I was able to restore it to its original state.