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Little Briar Rose, 2016. Graphite on Arches hotpress paper, 18’ x 24”.

Little Briar Rose

December 26, 2024

When designing this piece, my intention was to call upon the children’s book design of the Art Nouveau era and the Eastern European aesthetic of the 1800s. I was thinking specifically of Alphonse Mucha, tinged with the character development quality of….

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In classic literature Tags graphite drawing, Little Briar Rose, Sleeping Beauty, slavic witches, children's story
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Little Kingdom, 13”, graphite on Arches, 2023.

Little Kingdom

November 28, 2023

The art that now lives in the frame started with an October walk through a section of the Appalachian Trail in Gardners, PA. There, I took a few reference shots of some mushrooms I saw, including these deadly…

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In Field Natural History Tags graphite drawing, toad, mushrooms
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Gevurah, 22” x 30 graphite on Arches paper. 2011.

Gevurah

April 16, 2023

Occasionally, an idea for a piece comes out of left field and I just have to deal with it. This was one of those. I was researching the Kabbalah because I find ancient esoteric belief systems to be fascinating and I became quite interested with this complex system which breaks the Judaic godhead into….

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In Fantasy art Tags Kabbalah, Gevurah, sephirah, judgement, hornets, graphite drawing
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