MIA AND SPOOKY

This is a 24" x 20" commissioned painting I did for a family in Hawaii. I'm curious what Mia and Spooky are fixated on.

EL RAYO

This was a fun project. El Rayo Taqueria (Portland, Maine) wanted to do a calendar this year and presented me with the assignment of painting a 20" x 24" portrait in the style of the 1930's Mexican Calendar Girl portraits: Chicas de Calendarios Mexicanos.

SUMMER'S SUN, SPEED, AND SPRAY

An 18"x 24" painting commission marking the last of summer's sun, speed, and spray.

7-ELEVENS AND DAIRY QUEENS

"I so wanted to be, but just wasn't one of those kids who could celebrate the impulsive, unbridled lawlessness of youth. My brothers could; they reveled in the freedom every used-horse under the hood allotted them by breaking speed limits, blowing engines and speakers, burning rubber and clutches, and stopping at 7-Elevens and Dairy Queens minutes before dinner. They too made wrong turns and got lost, but they did this deliberately. For them, losing their bearings was fun and not a reason for fretting over gas gauges going down or heat gauges going up. If dilemma presented itself, they'd cobble a solution. I, on the other hand, followed the rules and worried about calamity, circumstance, and all that could go wrong with things that had multiple moving parts - like cars and bodies." *an excerpt from my illustrated cancer memoir "Car Dealer's Daughter"

ONE OWNER! LOW MILEAGE! DRIVES LIKE NEW!

"During the summers, my older brother and I had the job of shuttling used clunkers from Philadelphia back home to Schwenksville where they were overhauled in preparation for the weekly Manheim Auto Auction. We never got to drive them in their refurbished state - only the pre-tinkered/pre-polished phase... after pistons had impaled engine blocks, heads had warped and twisted, and fluids had burned the color of molasses (the sort of condition Ralph Nadar would have declared unsafe at any speed). My little brother always came along for the ride."

*an excerpt from the introduction of my illustrated cancer memoir "Car Dealer's Daughter"

BANG ON THE DRUM ALL DAY

A few samples of commissioned drumhead designs that I painted.

"TRINKET AND FERN" T

This is a t-shirt design I did for a local Portland gallery called "Trinket and Fern."

CARMINE

This is an 18"x 24" commissioned painting of a sweet pooch named Carmine.

BEACH WALK

This is a 10"x40" sculpture I just finished called "Beach Walk." Nothing is real - all the elements are sculpted from styrofoam and paper, then painted to look real.

"BACK TO LIFE"

I'm done with the dormant and ready for things to start coming back to life!

*This is a sculpture, called "BACK TO LIFE." The sea pebbles, mussel shells, and seaweed are made of styrofoam, aluminum foil, and paper, coated with a mixture of plaster and paper mache, then painted to look real. It measures 1'x3.'