This was another oil painting that I did during my period as a visual arts major at SUNY. For this piece, I highlighted my love of music by selecting six of my favorite CDs (three from the rock genre, three from hip hop) and painted them alongside my disc-man. I placed all the items on [...]
This is a self portrait that I did of myself in the early months of 2003. I was recovering from a difficult period in my life that had often been dark and uncertain, and I wanted to make a piece that would reflect the path I felt would take me out of the abyss and [...]
This is a portrait of my sister as she lay sleeping in bed. She was completely unaware of my presence, but I needed to complete a project for a drawing class that I was taking at Middlesex County College in New Jersey. It required me to emulate the style of a renowned modern artist. After [...]
This is a drawing done in regular pencil; I sketched it during the fall of 2001. It is basically a tribute to the icons of hip hop music that I love, but who are no longer with us. It depicts them in heaven, and I drew from images featured in leftover magazines and juxtaposed each [...]
One of the more interesting assignments for my painting class at SUNY Purchase was to choose a subject and to execute the painting as a split-screen, depicting how two iconic artists would have interpreted the image they saw before them. I decided to do a portrait of one of my favorite artists of modern music, [...]
This is a portrait of my favorite guitarist of all time, Jimi Hendrix. For this piece, I decided to use oil pastel pencils and charcoal. It was a messy endeavor, and I am actually surprised that I was able to keep the backdrop looking as clean and as white as it appears here. The key [...]
This is a portrait of another amazing, yet tragic, music icon from the American Northwest: Kurt Cobain. On this work, I used extremely watered-down acrylic paint to color the canvas in blue. I then took the liberty of using pencil to draw in all the details of his face, including casual lines for where the [...]
The likelihood of being assigned to do a self-portrait in any painting class is almost inevitable, and so when this was requested of my class I already knew in my head how I wanted to do the portrait. I was always impressed by Van Gogh’s self-portrait, and so I decided to use a similar brushstroke [...]
This was the first painting I did using the medium of oil paints. I decided to do a portrait of one of my all time favorite rappers, the late Tupac Shakur. This was the final piece that I did for my high school art class, and so I naturally wanted it to come out perfect. [...]
This is probably the oldest professional illustration that I still have in my possession. I created this picture when I was eleven years old, and was attending weekly drawing sessions at a studio called “Creative Images” in Metuchen, New Jersey. The woman in charge of running the studio and facilitating the sessions at the time [...]
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