My new mantra: Never judge a book by its cover; always judge a model by her polaroids. I love working with newbie models. They're often such a breath of fresh air ( Read more... )

Now that BayCon is over, I'm proud to offer the following paintings as limited edition inkjet prints. For the time being, I'm only offering the sizes below. I have not issued editions for alternate sizes at this time, though I may in the future. All prints come hand-mounted into archival black mats (my preferred display method for emphasizing ( Read more... )

Because I've had several inquiries both about work mentioned on my sister blog and about why I've been posting nothing new, I figure I'll address the subject briefly here ( Read more... )

Here's a first: This weekend I have stylists booked both Saturday and Sunday, but only one model booked so far! Usually I have the opposite problem. (Talk about be careful what you wish for ( Read more... )

I'm being a slowpoke, I know. I promised myself that on this piece I'd do more work on the surrounding details first, but true to form I went for the face first.

Work in Progress Detail of the face:


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This is a work in progress of the piece I've been working on lately. I haven't actually worked on it in a week or two, but I've randomly decided to post it since a few of you have been asking me about new work. (Note: The cheesy looking leaves are compositional placeholders from a custom brush by Melanie Delon and will be replaced by much better ( Read more... )

As many of you already know, my long-time dear friend Brian is marrying my not-quite-so-long-time-but-still-just-as-dear friend Becky in October! I was thrilled to hear about the engagement and absolutely honored when Becky asked me to do their engagement photos.


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Last month I had the absolute joy of working with singer/songwriter Dune Tran on her new promo photos. Not only is she wonderfully talented and adorable, but she's totally classy and great fun to work with ( Read more... )

This is the other piece I'm working on back to back with my Meila study. (Another detail because I'm really not far along on the top part and don't want to show the full canvas yet.) I took a break from this piece a few months ago because I needed to work on some of the technical aspects of my technique. I'm just getting started on the detailling ( Read more... )

I got these two to the point where I'm going to call them finished. There are still a few details I might go back and address later, but I finally decided I just needed to call them done and move on. I need to just get work online and move on to new pieces rather than nitpicking old ones that didn't start with the level of technique I expect of ( Read more... )