This 5” x 7” oil on panel was me really leaning into some things I love working with: warm, bright palettes, subsurface scattering in lighting, and feathery dragons.

This 10” x 20” oil painting was the culmination of a lot of techniques and process I've been developing over the past few years; the way I prep my surface to create texture, the way I mix colors, the way I use opaques vs transparent hues and in which order.

I always feel privileged to get to see animals engaging in curiosity and investigation, working to figure out the world around them. This painting is inspired by that inborn curiosity, but in this case, a wild hawk investigates a mystical object he has found in the sky— a brilliant red stone, which seems to be the source of the winds.

Gryphons used to be one of my very favorite creatures to draw, right next to dragons. If you've followed my work for a while, you may have heard me mention artistic inspirations such as Nambroth from when I was growing up as a teenager. I don't do gryphons as much these days, but I still enjoy indulging every now and then.

I kept this one balanced between strictly realism-based color/lighting and something a bit more mystical-- A lot of this painting was essentially a sort of embellished study where I shifted the colors to match the palette already in the background.