2009

A more playful image this time, but I don’t particularly like the color choices I made. Wild hair and enormous headphones. For a while I believe that characterized me amidst the other foreigners in Korea.

Print and Card available on Fine Art America. “You can’t stop this” is yet another one of my favorites, a more courageous verison of “You go Forward”, as it were. This was a few months into my sojourn as a teacher in Korea, and all the intricacies of the image Read more…

This is the first time I really tried to build an image around text and only text. I remained in black and white, and focused on the simple things.

I was in the process of this image as I was moving to Korea. That describes the text and the forward motion of the image right away. I had nowhere to go but onward, regardless of whether or not I thought that was a good idea. This is a pretty Read more…

Print Available on Imagekind. With this image, I took a very different approach than I usually did. First and foremost, I envisioned an image that was one solid concept, rather than a conglomeration of chaotic concepts. Second, I stuck to one set of colors, unlike my usual wide array. Like Read more…

Print available on Imagekind. This image began particularly as another experiment with trees, but it morphed into a pun on a well revered novel (by a well revered Minnesota author to boot.) I was also doing some playing with the markers to see how mixing them made an effect, and Read more…

Print Available on Imagekind. For “The Roots of Happiness” I kind of unintentionally started a trend of adding more meaningful, logical words to my images. This image started with the desire to draw a tree, and spread into something a bit more. Text reads: “The roots of happiness grow from Read more…

Inspired by henna designs and the interplay between geometry, flowers and faces…

Veiled figures, cities underneath veils, veils concealing cities….

Print Available on Fine Art America. This image is, to this day, one of my favorite in all the cityscapes I have ever drawn. The first goal of this image was to try taking up the whole page, after some friends suggested that my work was not “wall-hangable” for its Read more…

Print Available on Imagekind. “I am Complicated” was originally one of the very first images that I started. However, it wasn’t working out properly for quite some time, and I waited several months before completing it. It includes many of the same motifs as usual, and I didn’t try anything Read more…

In “Oceans” I tried out some boats and water themes…

One of my primary interests in the first images was depicting the cityscapes…

The Train City came shortly after “Lady of The Steam City” and I played with the smoke motifs, train motifs, and added in a little bit of headphones to boot.

Print available on Imagekind. Lady of the Steam City was the first time I used Bic permanent markers, which give the blended colors here. Done during Christmas time 2008, I was particularly interested in the old fashioned engines.