Self Portrait - Ink, Acrylic and Chalk Pastels on Paper

Little Doll - Chalk Pastels on Paper

3D design class first assignment. It was a horrible and amazing experience at the same time.

Sandy the Squirrel - Cardboard and Glue

Perpetually Self Inflicted - Charcoal and Oil Paint on Canvas

Religion's a Fucking Joke - Chalk Pastels and Ink on Paper

Organic Butterfly...looks nothing like a butterfly but in my head it does.

I took a journey and this is what I came up with after that journey.

Journey - Acrylic, Charcoal and Chalk Pastels on Canvas

Aviators series at different times of day.

Evening - Chalk Pastels on Paper

Midday indoors - Chalk Pastels on Paper

Morning - Chalk Pastels on Paper

Chalk Pastels on Paper

Another still life from Drawing II. 2010. 

This drawing means so much to me.  It was at this time that I was finally starting to really listen to my voice as an artist.  The assignment was to take three pictures, draw 1, erase it, drawn a 2nd, erase it, draw the 3rd and then bring it all together some how...I was terrified but I knew I could do it. So I looked deep within and listened to my instincts.  I'm extremely proud of this piece and myself for taking the leap I really didn't think I could.

Space Study - Charcoal on Paper

These two were my first Drawing II still life assignments. 2010.

Still Life - Charcoal 

2nd Still Life - Charcoal

I love Love.  It's a beautiful thing.  When I do decide to represent it/explore it in my art, my goal is to make the viewer feel what I feel in that moment.  To cause the viewer to have memories triggered of their own life. To bring them into my world.  That's what I hoped to do with this piece.  This was a personal project in 2008.

Neck Kisses - Oil Pastels and Paint on Paper

This represents a very important time in my journey as a woman.  I started this with the intention to draw the woman only and then like most art, I decided it needed more which led to the additions on the left and right of her.  I love it.  When I look at it, it reminds brings me back to how I felt at that time. That's one of the beauties of art.

Taking Flight - Oil Pastels

One of my good friends is in the army and he's really proud of what he does.  He liked the military symbol of two guns criss-crossed but he didn't want to be so typical so he asked me to cross a M4 gun with a machete. He also asked me to include he dogtags some how.  So this is what I came up with.  Shortly after I finished it, he paid $1,600 to get this tattooed on his back.  The piece covered his entire back. 

Army Boy Tattoo - Pencil on Paper

This was created at Stout in 2003 in 2D Design class as the final project. At this time in my life I was exteremly curious about true love and how that is felt between two people who are truly in love. Red is culturally known as a color of passion so I combined that with other "hot/warm" colors to show how passionate love can be. The viewer can see that where the couple is touching, the red gets darker/deeper showing that the passion grows with each touch. The blues and greens swirling around them are to show how they are in their own passionate world with the rest of the world swimming around them yet they are completely unaware of anyone else but themselves.

I painted this in 2008 for my friend Christina.  She works for a daycare and she loves children. 

Baby - Oil Paint on Canvas