Where Is Your Heart?

I have never been interested in producing controversial art, and in the past, that is what I thought all social statements were. When I was assigned a project based on a social issue I am passionate about, it took a lot of thought and reflection to realize that I am most passionate about finding the good in people and that I feel the lost good of humanity is really the heart of every social issue. Every person, even the badest bad guy, has a heart somewhere inside and just might not being using it. I chose to draw a human heart, slightly darkened but vibrant, disconnected, and on a grey background to show the potential that we all have to choose wrong or to choose right.

Overwhelm Me

The idea behind this drawing was to convey a feeling. I wanted to express the sense of being consumed into warmth and energy and something bigger than myself when I lay in the sun with my eyes closed, just letting the sun warm my whole body.

This was a blind contour drawing done after ten other of the same lantern. This final one was then colored in with colored pencils.

Face in Shapes

Final work from a three part abstraction

First and second steps in a three part abstraction

Nature and Nurture

I created this watercolor from a photo that I took in an abandoned church outside of Sienna, Italy. I like the way that the image combines man-made with God-made nature. It was fun to recreate the tight structure but try to create the loose feeling of one particular moment.

Scenic Switzerland

The different colors were produced in layers by creating a reduction print with linoleum. I first cut away the white to print light blue. Then I cut away everything I wanted to remain light blue and printed the dark blue.

The Farm in Black and Blue

This is my attempt at a loose watercolor landscape. I used a lot of pooling of pigments in the background trees and more thought out brushwork in the foreground.

Texture and Sounds

This was an experimental watercolor piece with pooling colors and using plastic wrap to create visual texture. The result was then enhanced with watercolor and watercolor pencils. The sounds represented are all sounds that I find soothing - breathing in and out, waves gently rushing in and falling back out, and birds chirping.

Etchings with Drypoint

Silly Me

Playing in the Rain

Lithography Prints

Print of kiwis drawn on the plate with a ballpoint pen

Print of a flower drawn on the plate with a China crayon

Printed from and inkjet print of a photo of one of my figure drawings

Lino Cut Prints

Cinque Terra at Sunset

Breezy Tree

The Lamp

one of my first lino cuts

Dry Point Prints

Furry Friend

Little Me

Grandma Goog