This painting I did based off of a Van Gogh painting. A technique I used for it was to glue Monopoly money to the canvas to block out the colors I'd be using. You can still see a few 20's and the shape of many of the bills.
This is a painting I did in highschool. Definitely one of my best paintings! I'd originally done an oil painting of a barn on the same canvas, which you can still see evidence of near the top, but decided it was u-g-l-y! This painting is taken from a detail of Fragonard's The Bolt. I absolutely love Fragonard, mainly for his habit of including a "steamy" under- or overtone in his works!
My driving motivation has always been to make things how I want them to be. I plan to specialize in as many areas of design as possible, thereby ensuring satisfaction with the things I create. Ambitious, yes. Impossible, no.