Wherever I live, I like to save space for spontaneous drawing. I’ll designate walls, pillars, cupboards or wooden planks. There is no specific idea in mind at first. I like to take the energy of whatever is happening at that particular moment and turn it into something that somewhat resembles a feeling I am having. A lot of the times it is boredom and pent up aggression that decides what my house looks like. This was cabin fever at its worst. A small cabin at 4000 feet elevation, 4 feet of snow, 1 hour of daylight, 6 or 7 pints of beer, and this is what came out. It’s also the product of an unquenchable Bukowski habit.

Broken II

This drawing is a new version of an old poem I illustrated

Medium - Pastel and Graphite on Paper
Dimensions - 9X11
Price - SOLD

The 9 to 5 Blues

Throughout college and the few years following I worked a variety of low end service industry jobs. This drawing expresses the frustration inherent with working a hard job for chump change, having terribly vindictive bosses, and accepting a complimentary chicken strip dinner on the window sill of the dish pit five or six nights a week. Millions of people make a living like this for their entire lives without complaint. Hats off to them for being stronger people than me. This is my formal complaint letter.

Medium - Pastel on Matboard
Dimensions - 25X30
Price - 500$

Oh, the gruesome destiny...

I'm not actually sure what the motivation for this drawing was. I did it in 2003 and displayed it in a few galleries around Marquette, MI alongside the other three in the "Americana" series. My professor at the time nicknamed drawings like these "psychoscapes". The title was GODDAMNIT for a while and caused some hilarious reactions that I was able to witness as I was the monitor in one of those galleries. I watched a woman walk up to it and mumble "it's just so depressing" with a nauseaus look on her face... priceless.

Medium - Pastel on Matboard
Dimension - 18X24
Price - 350$

Forgotten oil still life

First attempt at a still life in oil. It was painted with the help of Alexander Rokoff at Rokoff studios in North Portland.