Silk Screen and Lithography on paper
Graphite Poems on Vellum
Graphite on vellum
New Narrative Paintings
New Narrative Paintings
These paintings are part of a series I have had on the easel and am slowly working on. They large paintings 3.5′ to 6′ across. The blonde girl is my daughter and my child self superimposed on her.
I have not seen this antique art except in art history books and on Artsy. Mostly, I am trying to rebel against the old bible stories that I grew up on where the female’s role is that of a tool, or more to my experience, a punching bag.
On a more sentimental level, I like making these paintings because the girl character is based on some snapshots I took of my daughter Danielle when she was maybe 8 — she looked a lot like me then very expressive with her face like me, happy and free, which is what I need for these paintings. A presence that is not so serious.
The media used is graphite and oil on canvas.
Dazed & Confused
Dazed & Confused Teen Girls Don’t Age Kinetic Type
This is a Photoshop frame animation of screens I made to show how the words from a scene in the movie Dazed and Confused could be animated. I imagined the camera as the boy characters in the movie watching a girl doing a filp with their words flowing around the teen girl’s body as she goes through the motion of the flip.
The typefaces I used are Goudy Heavy Face. I tried to make the type movements illustrate the script and reflect what the scene is about. Here are some of the boards.
