Mural

This is a mural I have just recently finished for a local business, it is approximately 24ft x 12ft.

Angel Silhouette

This is the most recent painting I have just finished. It is of an angel silhouette sitting on a stool. It is 18in. x 24in.

Recent paintings for two customers.

These two paintings are for relatives whose family members owned this gas station years ago. There are no remaining photos of this gas station with everything intact like I have painted. It served as a sentimental image for them.

Homeless/Vulture Series 3

Third one of the series with the homeless man looking down at the ground. The idea has turned to not being able to see the man's face anymore, not able to distinguish an individual but concentrate and see homelessness as whole. Once again, this is done on board with pastel, charcoal, and some india ink.

Homeless/Vulture Series 2

This drawing is the second one of this series showing a homeless man laying down with the vulture above. Compositionally, the man and vulture have almost the same structure which helps support the idea of the two being in comparison. As like the first one, this one is 48in. wide and 40in. in height.

Artist Statement on homeless people and vultures

When observing the economy and state we live in along with third world countries the number of jobless humans is increasing. Homelessness and hunger result in criminal activities in some instances.  These motives of finding shelter and food for survival are in comparison with the modern day vulture.   My work consists of comparing the homeless and hunger of humans to the vulture in ways of finding food to survive.  The vulture is a scavenger and lives day to day in hope of feeding off of left over dead animals and finds shelter in small caves, under bushes, or hollowed stumps and logs.  The homeless are often found in alleys, under bridges, in cars, or other small less traveled areas in protection from the weather and from the local police stations. The vulture and homeless man never interact throughout the paintings but are linked through actions each takes.

Homeless/Vulture Series

I have been working on this series for almost a year now, ideas have changed along with the techniques of the drawings and paintings. I have currently done almost 9 oil paintings of this idea and this one is the first drawing using charcoal, pastels, and india ink. This one shows a homeless man with a can in front of him with the vulture below. Previous work consisted of backgrounds depicting a cityscape and individualized faces. This new work has done away with that to focus more on the idea of them in the same space with no other relationship to there backgrounds, to focus more on the idea of them being closely related.