A collection of personal projects including illustration, paintings, and other physical media pieces.
Anything available for purchase can be found in the Shop. Digital design work can be found in my Portfolio.
Illustration
Digital and traditional illustrations I create when inspiration hits.
While digital illustration is my primary medium, my roots are in traditional media. I like working with ink, especially dip pens. Ball point pens and markers also take prominence in my physical works.
Digital illustrations are typically inspired by the shows and media I’m watching.
11 × 14” ink on Bristol
For a friend, I created a playing card design that swaps the royal figure for his two cats, their initials in their respective corners. The patterns between them are to represent a dj deck with the two discs being controlled by the cats and the filler pieces resembling the various buttons and knobs on the deck.
5×7” ink on Bristol
An Over the Garden Wall piece I took from traditional to digital. The first version of this drawing circled a paper coffee cup. The second iteration was ink on paper. The final version was inked and painted digitally.
Paintings
Acrylics are the base of my paintings. Rarely do I paint solid subjects, preferring to lean abstract, but I will add concrete details with other mediums like flowers and wire. The flowers are dried or pressed over the course of a few weeks and I’ll use the petals to reconstruct flower forms on the paintings. To present and preserve the final pieces, I frame them in shadow boxes.
5×7” acrylic on watercolor paper
This is a commissioned piece I did after a friend’s cat passed away. She brought me the flowers from the bouquets she received, so I could dry them and turn them into a painting. From the various bouquets, I was able to create this unique flower formation in delicate purples and pinks with accents of gold. I framed the final piece in a shadow box to preserve it.
5×7” acrylic on watercolor paper
These pieces were inspired by my mom and grandmothers. I was very intentional with the colors and styles to try to accurately represent them - how they are now and how I remember them growing up.
5×7” acrylic on watercolor paper
This one was done as the cover of a card. I was given basic parameters to follow - he wanted a flower piece with a dark blue background and “felicidades amor” on the front. From there, I decided to take a mix of dark pink and cream flower petals to form the rose and inked the message in gold matching the accents on the flower. The final piece was glued to the front of a card.
The batch of flowers these petals came from had a tie-dye effect with a darker pink and a lighter pink. I used a greenish blue as the base of the paintings to make the flowers pop and paired that with graphic lines of gold to complement the solid gold along the edges of the petals.
3×3” acrylic on canvas
5×7” acrylic on watercolor paper
18×24” acrylic/mixed media on canvas
Experimenting with painting figures while maintaining a relative abstract look and utilizing a gnarly color palette. To contrast the abstract elements, I brought in graphic black lines and did certain features in gold colored wire. I liked the look of the wire against the greens and blues, so I added 3D flowers around the figure that curve and have an iridescent look to them in the light like bubbles.