This painting was based on an BBC photo of a Turkish watch tower on the Iraqi border that is silhouetted against an orange sky. I often like to paint a black foreground image against a colorful background since it’s easier to paint and you have to wonder what kind of story is being told here. [...]

This painting was based on an International Herald Tribune photo of a sad Palestinian vegetable seller in Gaza. The man and vegetable stand was painted first, and I later added the desolated wasteland as the background. What does the painting mean? I’m going to leave that open to interpretation as a person’s political view towards the [...]

This painting is based on a BBC photo of a Finnish lake in autumn colors. I was attracted to the bright colors and the water reflection of those colors. I might paint this scene over again as the trees are not distinctive enough and the water reflection isn’t supposed to be a mirror perfect image. [...]

This tablet is an odd asortment of landscapes and people that caught my interest during a difficult six-week period where I graduated from school, got laid off from my job, and started a new job. Most of these paintings are based on the pictures I downloaded from the BBC, Los Angeles Times and New York [...]

Still learning how to paint without numbers and trying to develop my own style. These paintings are based on the pictures I downloaded from the BBC, Los Angeles Times and New York Times websites that caught my interest. My favorite out of this set is my third attempt at doing a British sunset at Blackpool [...]

I’ve been getting personal counseling at school for the last seven months to talk about my Mom passing away from breast cancer three years ago, traumatic childhood and crazier adulthood. After hours of conversation, it boiled down to doing the three things I wasn’t fully able to do as a child that I can now [...]