About The Artist / Media
On the Back in the Day Day Podcast with Michael Pasvar
On the Experience This YouTube channel with Tim Urban
About The Artist / Studio
A hand finished "Mia Madonna"
Studio Vibes
The finished art for "The Oldest Fortnite Player in the World" Ben Rogers home studio
Dredd painted on 4 layers of glass
My art board with perspective lines installed
Hand finishing a series of Patrick Bateman prints with splatter
Finishing a round of hand painted Doc Hollidays
The Comedians Reunited
Painting the 7ft Sade
About The Artist / Wild
Pancakes and Booze
Chris Bardeloza and I at an art show in McKinney
With the Llama painting I made for Jeff Cavanaugh
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Art up at Devious Desserts and Creamery in Carrollton, TX
I couldn't deliver this one because it wouldn't fit in my car
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the 7ft Sade painting installed at it's home
The art show set up for Arts Goggle in Ft. Worth, TX
My beautiful wife watching my booth at the art show with NightJunkie
The "Armand Assante" abstract installed at it's home
Artist Statement
My work brings together classical art, illustration, comics, pop culture, and animation style of the 1980s and 1990s. I create portraits and paintings that use bold color, strong line, and carefully built compositions to make subjects feel new.
Color is one of my main tools. I am interested in what happens when color stops behaving the way we expect it to. I use warm and cool colors, high contrast, saturated into high-chroma and unexpected color relationships to bend the subject into something more vivid and dramatic.
I want the work to feel gaudy and elegant at the same time. I strive for bright, excessive, and almost impossible to ignore, but carefully controlled. My compositions are grounded in classical ideas of proportion, balance, and the Golden Ratio (φ), while my visual language comes from more modern sources.
My color influences range from the rich, luminous colors of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood to the original polychromy of Greek sculpture and the graphic linework of comic-book art. I am drawn to the tension between these worlds: the ancient and the modern, the refined and the outrageous, the realistic and the imagined.
At its core, my work is about making opposites work together. I use classical structure to give modern imagery a strong foundation, then push color, light, and reality beyond what we normally expect. The goal is not simply to make something colorful. It is to make color change the way we see the subject.
I want the finished work to feel both familiar and strange. A scene or a portrait you recognize, transformed by color into something you could not have expected to see.