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Folio's Portfolio
Paintings
My paintings uploaded here were completed largely between 2021 and 2025 in watercolor, acrylic ink, or acrylic paint. They typically depict landscapes, portraits, or reimaginations of high contrast photography.
I typically paint on cardstock paper although a few of my works are on canvas or mixed media paper. Often times I paint indoors using a table top easel while listening either to music or the sound of paint brushes.
The process of painting inspires me just as much as the subject I am painting, and one cannot occur without the other.
Lexington Cemetery 2024.
9x12 acrylic on cardstock
This painting was a gift for my sister based on a photograph she took at the Lexington Cemetery in Kentucky. The painting was a college graduation gift.
The cherry blossoms, the landscape, and the still warm seasonal waters of a spring weekend.
The cherry blossoms, the landscape, and the still warm seasonal waters of a spring weekend.
Tree, Spring 2019
Mixed media (spray paint, acrylic paint, and charcoal) on 36x48 board.
The work combines the practice of life drawing of nature from observation coupled with characteristics abstract expressionism painting application.
The work combines the practice of life drawing of nature from observation coupled with characteristics abstract expressionism painting application.
Stone Coal River, Buckhannon, WV
16x20 acrylic on canvas.
This painting renders a photograph I took at the river my senior year of college April 2021. I can remember the reflections of the vivid and saturated foliage shining on the water. I can still hear the faint footsteps of the water and wind dancing together that Sunday afternoon. The spring hymnal on a canvas in my kitchen.
Willett Potstill, 2024
11x14 acrylic on canvas
Christmas for my father to install above a beautiful bourbon collection in a Kentucky home.
The painting is rich in warm colors of amber and gold sonically encapsulating the feeling in taste and color of Willett's bourbon whiskey.
The painting is rich in warm colors of amber and gold sonically encapsulating the feeling in taste and color of Willett's bourbon whiskey.
Crimson Field
9x12 acrylic ink and watercolor on cardstock paper.
Published in "HNDL Mag 1 Issue 2" 2023.
Landscape, Summer 2023
9x12 acrylic ink on cardstock paper
Abstracted landscape rendered from dripped, sprayed, and painted values of acrylic ink with watercolor on paper.
Pools of pigment run, smear, and converge rendering an imaginative unforeseen yet serene world.
Pools of pigment run, smear, and converge rendering an imaginative unforeseen yet serene world.
Leaves 1, Spring 2024
8.5x11 acrylic on paper
Vibrant in color and expressive in brushwork rendering and interpreting the form of leaves taken from a series of photographs.
First experiment in a series of three paintings completed.
First experiment in a series of three paintings completed.
Leaves 2, Spring 2024
8.5x11 acrylic on paper
Vibrant in color and expressive in brushwork rendering and interpreting the form of leaves taken from a series of photographs.
Second experiment in a series of three paintings completed.
Second experiment in a series of three paintings completed.
Leaves 3, Spring 2024
8.5x11 acrylic on paper
Vibrant in color and expressive in brushwork rendering and interpreting the form of leaves taken from a series of photographs.
Third experiment in a series of three paintings completed.
Third experiment in a series of three paintings completed.
Cranberry Glades, 2024
9x12 acrylic on cardstock paper
Impressionistic inspired acrylic painting used for a classroom lesson on West Virginia landscape painting.
The wheat fields are on fire removed from the vibrant life blossoming in spring forests.
The wheat fields are on fire removed from the vibrant life blossoming in spring forests.
Landscape. Summer 2023
9x12 acrylic on watercolor paper
Late summer field the view from a remote second story window captured through glistening glass camera lenses.
WV Landscape. Spring 2024
9x12 acrylic on cardstock paper
Completed as a project example for a student teaching lesson on painting native West Virginia landscapes using a limited color palette.
Venetian red, ultramarine blue, and titanium white.
Venetian red, ultramarine blue, and titanium white.
Monochromatic Interior, Spring 2024
9x12 acrylic on cardstock paper
A modern sunken living room rendered with red acrylic paint the hues values achieved with shades and highlights with black and white.
Project created as an example for a classroom lesson on monochromatic painting using only one large flat or round paintbrush.
Project created as an example for a classroom lesson on monochromatic painting using only one large flat or round paintbrush.
White Orchids, Spring 2024
5x7 watercolor on paper
Example piece created for a lesson on botanical watercolor in a high school Painting 1 classroom.
Dahlia, Spring 2024
5x7 watercolor on paper
Example piece created for a lesson on botanical watercolor in a high school Painting 1 classroom.
Portrait, 2023
8.5x11 mixed media on cardstock
Portrait created with sprayed acrylic ink, acrylic paint, and graphite.
Created sometime in December of that year.
Created sometime in December of that year.
Ink Portrait 1, 2023
9x12 mixed media on cardstock
A spontaneous painting created in an unfamiliar technique yet one that I still love.
Unintentionally the piece captures the likeness of an old friend in some expressive way.
Unintentionally the piece captures the likeness of an old friend in some expressive way.
Portrait, 2023
9x12 watercolor on paper
Portrait of an unknown face in a sketchbook with watercolor washes and ink drips.
Portrait, 2024
9x12 mixed media on paper
Acrylic ink and acrylic paint depicting an unknown face.
The right eye pupil shimmering in the light reflecting in the bubble of undried pigment.
The right eye pupil shimmering in the light reflecting in the bubble of undried pigment.
Buried Portrait
11x14 mixed media on canvas
Acrylic paint, layers of dry wall, and craft store hay on canvas create a portrait painting depicting the likeness of Mina Loy.
Faces and a Blue Cube, 2023
9x12 acrylic and watercolor in sketchbook
Ink Portrait 2, 2023
9x12 mixed media on cardstock
Ink Portrait 3, 2023
9x12 mixed media on cardstock
Ink Portrait 4, 2023
9x12 mixed media on cardstock
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