Original Paintings · Austin, TX

ORIGINALworks on canvas

A working collection built mostly from thick, palette-knife oils — high-contrast color pushed into heavy impasto ridges — alongside a smaller run of hard-edge, taped acrylic geometrics. Nearly every piece starts on the same 16 × 20 canvas.

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48Paintings in the collection
Oil & AcrylicKnife work and hard-edge technique
16×20Most common canvas size
OpenAvailable for commission
"Golden Star" — oil, palette knife
Materials & Process

How eachpiece is made

Most pieces begin on a stretched 16 × 20 canvas — small enough to finish in a single sustained session, large enough to hold real texture. From there the approach splits: some are built thick in oil, palette-knife layer over layer; others stay flat, masked with tape and worked in acrylic for a hard, clean edge.

  • 01
    Base layer — poured or brushed color field, sometimes taped off for hard-edge geometry.
  • 02
    Worked texture — palette knife for the thick, ridged oil pieces; brush and blending for the flatter acrylic work.
  • 03
    Sealed & signed — varnished, signed on the back, ready to hang unframed.
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Most paintings are available for purchase as-is. If you're after a specific palette or size for a space, I take on a limited number of commissions each season.

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