You: A Subtle interior painting with a focus on the portrait

This piece was made for the Interior into Another Space assignment. Since I'm a huge fan of horror, I decided make a piece that centers around the genre of horror. This is once of my wildest experiments ever: a creepy "melting" portrait. I decided to name it "You." (There is a deep story and meaning behind that title and the painting, but I wanted to keep it obscure for a little more mystery...)

The Jar: A new technique for painting on a canvas made from scratch

This painting was a small project created for the Markup assignment (the assignment name refers to the new technique that I used to create the underpainting of this piece). For this painting, I tried out a new technique that I've never done before: I did a burnt umber underpainting by smothering linseed oil and paint onto the canvas, and "sketched" out the rough shapes and values of the still life with a rag. It was messy, but super fun!

Fuel: A graphic design approach to an oil painting landscape

This was an oil painting done for the Figures in a Landscape assignment. I went ahead with a more graphic design approach, and challenged myself by only using the primary colors. The landscape is rendered in a "lens" perspective.

The character in the landscape comes from my favorite series: Mob Psycho 100, which is created by ONE.

POTASSIUM: Chemistry fantasized - a play on abstract texture

Warning: The image of potassium depicted in this painting is not accurate. Well, maybe it is. In my mind, at least. 

Potassium is a part of my Alkali Metals series, which is a set of paintings that show close-up views of the six alkali metals (lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, caesium, and francium) in order to capture its "fantasized"

CAESIUM: Chemistry fantasized - a play on abstract texture

Fun fact: While Caesium may be a solid at room temperature, but it's melting point is low enough for it to melt over the loving warmth of your hands. Be careful, though: it'll then violently burn your hand in air.

Caesium is another painting from my Alkali Metal series. The patterns and hues used for this paintin is vastly different than those of Potassium: my aim was to make Caesium mimic gold, but give it shell-like patterns to express it's daintiness on the outside. 

Look Behind You: Testing the waters on surrealist horror

Unfortunately, this painting has been discontinued. It was fun while it lasted!

The GRIM COUPLE: MORE FLESH IN THE OPEN

He and She are two small-scale watercolor paintings that I did as a duo-series. For both pieces, I started with a multi-colored gradient, and once this layer is dry, I began to add more layers of detail. The techniques that I used were more similar to techniques used for gouache and acrylic than watercolor.

Fresh newlyweds: hung upside down

Fresh Newlyweds is one of my largest paintings ever: it was certainly a challenge paiting this piece upside down the entire time, but I needed to do it in order to depict gravity and hanging objects correctly!

Severed hand: form, texture, and glazing

Severed Hand is the first painting that I've done one wood! I had a ton of fun painting this piece—I enjoyed the challenges of useing slippery liquin on the glossy surface, creating think impasto-styled strokes, and glazing to make the flesh redden with ripeness.