Cornell Box Project
A box inspired by the work of the assemblage artist Joseph Cornell and by the artist’s own complicated relationship with femininity.
Above: dress details for the doll box’s “closet” (taken from old magazine ads).
Closet detail.
Assembling!
A digitally shrunken illustration of a dove inside a Maybelline compact.
A digitally shrunken illustration of a dead pigeon inside a Maybelline compact.
Concept Art: Puccini’s La Boheme
Concept for a Boheme set in a shiny-happy Silicon Valley-overrun San Francisco where our plucky artists must brave the world of tech-yuppies and gentrification.
Fake Movie Posters
Pardon the watermark! At left: a minimalist Lord Of The Rings poster. At right: A hand-painted Buckaroo Banzai poster with added text.
Mask Project: The Tempest
The mask was designed for the character Ariel’s “fire spirit” look.
The mask glowed when backlit.
Collage
Left: collage inspired by the musical Hadestown by Anaïs Mitchell (made in Fall 2018). Above: Self-Portrait. I do not own the rights to most of the individual images in these collages.
Inspiration collage featuring old sci-fi/pulp characters for an experimental space-opera called Do the Stars Gaze Back, written by composer Andrew Lynch, for which I was one part of a team of 4 animators. I made the featured spaceships using elements/”parts” from several different sci-fi illustrations. Click the image to watch the space opera. This was an educational project and I do not own the rights to the original images. It was my first foray into making an animated short film.
Drawing
Female nude study, charcoal. For more drawings, see my artwork page.