Living Portraits

All portraits are of those friends who have sat for me. Thank you everyone!
these portraits are in various mediums from Conte crayon to oil paint and charcoal.




Nathaniel Earls, Charcoal on paper, March 2005.














Karema Walker, Conte Crayon on paper, November 2005.














Christine Kanownik, Conte Crayon on paper, October 2005.














Felix, Conte Crayon on paper, September 2005.
















Phil Forsyth, Oil paint on X-ray, December 2005.

Family Portrait

This series has been and will be a long term side project/endeavor. there will eventually be 8 paintings all connecting with each other and has been pursued from 2004 to present.
all of the paintings are arylic on 12 X 16 inch canvas.

Welcome to my student work site. This first series is a series of medium paintings on old windows. The medium paintings were transferred from a shower wall and peeled off like dead skin and stuck onto these nice little windows you see before you. What is our body? How can we live in harmony? What control do we have? My body is very important to me, being someone who lives with an auto-immune disease. Trying to attempt to understand what my body chooses to do is a daily task which astonishes me. Our bodies choose to do as they will, and work in their on their own time and have a specific system for repairing itself free of our own will or choice.
so who are we in relation to our bodys?
are we even one in the same?
This series of images is 4 of six windows that are hanging in the entry way of Brandel Library on North Park University Campus
hung in October 2005 til present.