METAMORPHIC BEING that is among the largest of its kind, with scales that overlap in complex formations to reflect light and create structural color, who disappears and reappears during flight, whose young display cannibalism, 2022
Soft pastel on paper
12 x 9 inches
Magnification (Chartreuse Stingray), 2021
Soft pastel, colored pencil, and gouache on paper
40 x 30 inches
Magnification (Vibrant Lily), 2021
Soft pastel, colored pencil, and gouache on paper
40 x 30 inches
Orb Study (Pink Volcanic), 2020
Acrylic and colored pencil on paper
12 x 9 inches
METAMORPHIC BEING that can be found at higher altitudes in dense canopy, that feasts on decomposing fruit and rotting fish, who lays a single egg on individual plants, and offspring feed nocturnally, 2022
Soft pastel on paper
12 x 9 inches
Magnification (Cobalt Lily), 2021
Soft pastel, colored pencil, and gouache on paper
40 x 30 inches
Magnification (Wing), 2021
Soft pastel, colored pencil, and gouache on paper
40 x 30 inches
Orb Study (Gerome), 2020
Acrylic and colored pencil on paper
12 x 9 inches
METAMORPHIC BEING that spends most of its life as an egg, with rounded scales that flush from soft green to vivid blue and orange, that was believed extinct for over 100 years, and endemic to a fertile island, 2022
Soft pastel on paper
12 x 9 inches
Magnification (Pink Caterpillar), 2021
Soft pastel, colored pencil, and gouache on paper
40 x 30 inches
Surge, 2020
Acrylic, gouache, and colored pencil on paper
56 x 42 inches
Detail Kelp and Nudibranch Rising, 2021
Flashe, acrylic, gouache, colored pencil, and ink on paper
56 x 42 inches
Kelp and Nudibranch Rising, 2021
Flashe, acrylic, gouache, colored pencil, and ink on paper
56 x 42 inches