Fine Art
I create photo-exact landscape art from my own photography in three different mediums: pastel, oil paint, and digital. I have and am open to creating custom pieces based of others' photographs.
I consider my ability to re-create color and texture with accuracy to be one of my greatest strengths. However, difference still may occur due to the variation from screen to screen, screen to painting, painting to photograph, or painting to print.
There are pros and cons for each medium due to their unique properties for color layering, texture production and fine detail capacity. These aspects may make a particular photograph best suited for one medium over another.
I find the process of dissecting images into layers of colors fascinating, as it is both complex and simplistic at the same time; at the core I use thousands of tiny dots, strokes, or scribbles to create objects rather than drawing the image whole. How the combination of individually insignificant marks come together to create something beautiful and identifiable is a satisfying experience to me as an artist.
Pastel
Pastel is the first medium that I used for these pieces. I create them using a pointalistic technique, completing layer after layer of dots and strokes over top one another to achieve the proper colors and depth to the piece. This medium is my favorite, despite that i find it to be the most challenging. Certain colors have different levels of hardness which can make them more difficult to work with. The blending has to be done very carefully because erasing is not very affective. These pieces fall in between digital and oil paint in the spectrum of detail. This makes it a great option for those who want a more traditional look of a one-of-a-kind physical piece, but like a more detailed look than I can provide with oil paints. It is the "happy medium" between the two.
Oil Paint
The look of an oil painting arguably is one of the most broadly appreciated mediums. I began branching out to oil paint to have pieces that did not need to work around the difficulty of needing a glass cover or fixative layer that can wash away the top layer's fine details. Using oil as a medium allows me to produce a more painterly effect to the piece. There is something about oil paint as a medium for landscape that feels very traditional. I enjoy the high blendability and the capacity for such rich texture that can come from canvas. However, it does not allow for as fine of details as the other mediums I work with.
Digital
I began creating digital pieces after working in digital art programs as an animation student in 2019. I use either Adobe Photoshop or Clip Studio Paint. Digital art has the greatest capacity for fine details. My methods change from dots and strokes to layers of scribbles upon each other.
