Due to my job has a visual art educator and my side job as an illustrator, I very rarely paint for myself nowadays. You’ll instead find me gleefully immersing myself with fiber arts. However, here are some personal paintings from the last couple of years.
2023 painting inspired by Minoan murals.
2022. A dragon I whipped up in less than two hours for the website’s home page.
2019 painting of an original character. I redrew the background in 2022.
A 2019 character portrait. I redid the lighting in 2022.
2023 painting inspired by a sunset outside of my house.
2022 painting. I was trying to break out of my usual Mediterranean color palette.
2022 speedpaint. I didn’t have an idea for this one, but rather just started painting to see where it would take me.
A 2022 painting originally designed for a website header.
A 2021 painting inspired by my interest at the time, entomology.
A 2022 character portrait.
A 2022 character portrait. A nice break from my usual color palette at the time.
A map painted in 2021 for a shelved personal project.
2022 painting that had two variations — one with a robe, one without.
2023, second variation of this painting.
2020 character portrait.
A 2021 character speedpaint inspired by a friend’s son.
2020 character painting.
2020 creature experimentation.
2020 character portrait.
2020 character portrait.
2020 setting study.
2020 painting. There’s so many things I would change about this painting, but I was so happy with it at the time that I keep Luca around for nostalgia.
2020 character portrait.
2020 character portrait.
2020 character portrait.
2019 creature experimentation.
2019 planetary painting.
2019 creature experimentation.
2019 character portrait.
2019 character portrait.
2019 character portrait.
2019 object study.
2019 character portrait.