Oil Painting Portraiture. Explored over a semester. Expanded in a personal practice. Taken on in different mediums. What it means to create a portrait.
Photorealistic Self-Portrait
36 x 48, oil on canvas
A series of dancer feet.
Challenging the typical content of a portrait. Dancer’s feet, an essential element to their craft. They show their toil and hard work, the pain they may undergo. Their feet tell the story of what it means to be a dance artist.
12 x 16, oil on masonite
An object portrait of Thomas Edison, New Jersey native and inventor of the incandescent bulb, phonograph, and various pioneering technologies.