Art Portfolio

 This is a selection of my art portfolio, mainly drawings but also some paintings. My work covers a wide variety of media, including charcoal, pastels, ink, mixed media, Conté crayons and some oil and acrylic paintings mixed in. These pieces represent a range of genre, from Realism to Surrealism to Cubism to Montage to Impressionism to Abstract Expressionism. I hope you will enjoy browsing.

Title: “Part Time” 
Notes: Colored pencil and pastel. 13 in. x 14 in. 
This cubistic piece displays simultaneous views of a watch. The shading contributes an element of ambiguity.

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Title: “Pickled-Banana”
Notes: Colored pencil. 9.5 in. x15 in.
This surrealistic representation of a floating pickle-banana was inspired by René Magritte, an artist who toyed with the juxtaposition of unrelated images, as well as by a dream I had of biting into a crunchy banana.

Title: “Prehistoric Man”
Notes: Conte pencil. 11.5 in. x 17 in.
caveman conte drawing pencil portrait

Title: “Chess 2.2”
Notes: Oil. 24 in. x 20 in.
Based on a photo reference.
oil chess surrealism painting perspective still-life

Title: “Bananas 2”
Notes: Acrylic. 30 in. x 18 in.
Still-life. Bananas were initially photographed and this painting was based on the photograph reference.  

Title: "Silhouette"
Notes: Charcoal and pastel

Title: “Hand”
Notes: Pastel. 13 in. x 11.5 in.
A drawing of my hand focusing on surface planes.
Hand. Contour drawing. drawings still-life pastel 

Title: "Models 3"
Notes: Pencil. 10.25 in. x 14.75 in.
models realism pencil drawings figurative
 

Title: “Pen and Notepad”
Notes: Paper collage. 15 in. x 12 in. Mar. 1997.
This collage was painstakingly assembled by pasting together hundreds of cut-outs from magazines. 
Collage. Notepad and pen.

Title: “Oranges”
Notes: Acrylic. 14.25 in. x 10 in. Spring 1994.
acrylic painting fruit orange

Title: “Sito”
Notes: Acrylic paint. 25 in. x 17 in.
After reading about German Expressionists and Fauvism in The Visual Arts: A History, I couldn’t help but undertake this Fauves-inspired, broad brush-strokes painting.  
abstract acrylic portrait painting

Title: "Teacups" 
Notes: Photograph. 6 in. x 6 in.

Title: “Troubled Woman”
Notes: Pastel. 17 in. x 23.5 in. 
The colors and worm-like scribble lines in this drawing create an unsettling atmosphere and add to the woman’s anxious state.  This drawing was done with a photo reference. 
Portrait. Troubled woman. Pastel. 

Title: "Zipper"
Notes: Pastel, Conte pencil.
pastel Conte pencil drawing 

Title: “Horse”
Notes: Pencil. 14 in. x 11 in.
This was one of the first pieces I undertook in my college drawing class. Based on a photo, this drawing was the fruit of hours of labor undertaken during breaks from reading Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Burke, Mill, Marx, Nietzsche, and the other readings of Contemporary Civilization.
horse animal pencil drawing