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Quercus  spp. This ink study of Quercus  spp. captures the quiet strength and elegance of the oak. I focused on the gentle curve of the...

Pleurotus ostreatus This week, I focused on Pleurotus ostreatus , commonly known as the oyster mushroom. Working with black and white...

I’m deeply honored and grateful to Assignment , the journal of Southern New Hampshire University’s MFA program, for publishing my...

The tenderness is in the looseness, in the refusal to trap the bird in exactness. Its form is there, yes, but it’s softened, like it’s...

I think of this more like a held breath than a room. The red is so saturated it almost swallows everything, and I wanted that—to make the...

This little bear feels like it's drifting. I wanted to capture the translucency without over-defining it—the way light sort of hums...

I wanted this one to feel cool and crystalline—almost like it’s made of ice instead of sugar. Using colored pencils, I focused on...

It’s just a single piece of hard candy, wrapped and resting on a neutral gray surface—but it holds your eye. I wanted to capture that...

I painted this study with the intention of staying honest—honest to the object, to the light, to the silence it carried when I first saw...

At first glance, this painting is simple: a bowl, some citrus slices, the soft geometry of windowlight on a surface. But beneath its...

The sparse composition becomes its strength. The branch is bare, the leaves are few, and the fruit is round and full—almost childlike in...

In this painting, I was drawn not to the shell as a marine object, but to what it evokes: fragility, exposure, the ache of tenderness...

This painting explores the boundary between object and emotion, using the form of a strawberry as both anchor and vessel. Rendered in...

In this piece, I sought to reimagine the quiet resilience of the snowdrop—a flower often associated with fragility and early spring—by...

A solitary bird, rendered in deep blue, lifts into a sea of molten gold—its wings caught mid-beat, its slender leg extended in a final...

This painting, bathed in warm pinks and soft peach tones, evokes a tender sense of sanctuary and repose, centering on a curled-up cat...

Set against the infinite hush of a star-laced sky, the moonlit flowers emerge with a spectral grace, their pale petals unfolding like...

The lower half, with its deep swirling blues and blacks, suggests a nocturnal lake—still, contemplative, and ominously quiet—centered by...

In this piece, the flower emerges from the darkness, bathed in an ethereal glow—an embodiment of resilience and fleeting beauty. The...

At the core of Study no. 89  lies a disciplined exploration of form—its rhythm, density, and presence. The shell, rendered in layered...