San Francisco Landscape, acrylic on paper
When I travel I often take gessoed paper and insert it in my sketchbook, I also take a travel size acrylic set with me were ever I go.
absinthehouse 2, acrylic and pen on paper.1999
This was from a sketchbook during 1999 year. I was starting to find other influences and the Parisian Cafe formula/style was getting old for me.It marked the beginning of the end for my Absinthe painting series.
Absithehouse 1, 1999
In the late 1990′s I read a book called “a History in a Bottle” which was about the 19th century drink Absinthe and the artist who drank it and painted about it . I was also very influenced by the Parisian painters of this period.
Daughter to an Absinth drinker, study 1998
Lighting a Cig, 1997 acrylic and pen on paper
I was still an undergraduate when I was making these paintings and I was really influenced by illustrators who were finding success as gallery artist. I know that that sounds vague but what happen is I realized I was at a school who was teaching me to be a commercial artist and I was looking for something with more depth. so I took a major break from college and I dedicated my time to working for myself.I started to look at Parisian painters who drank.
Copy from vintage mag. 2002
Hataya Sleeping 1999
