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Graphic Design

Cover for a graphic novel I created based on Edgar Allan Poe's Black Cat A pro-bono poster created in 2016 for a benefit thrown for the thousands of flood victims across West Virginia. Simple illustrative flyer made for doemstic restaurant This was a research project conducted during my sophmore year at Shepherd University. Yet another ad for a different product sold by the All natural Male. Interior panel of a trifold brochure made for the Cumberland County Historical Society in 2018. A business card made for a friends dog grooming boutique.
Doug, the owner of domestic loves retro punk vibes. Domestic is very fortunate to be located in a town with a wealth of jazz musicians. Poster made for local carnival in 2017. Advertisement for a client's racing team. One of the ads created to advertise on a web slide show for All Natural Male, a long-time client. This is a logo and CD cover created for a friend's band. A CD cover for a friend's band in 2015 with some sweet hand lettering.
Part of a branding package put together for a client, I created a logo and style guides for their activism group. Another demo poster made for She Doesn't A project from frshman year in college. The interior panel of a brochure created for a client to promote their new product. Another ad created for All Natural Male promoting one of their inventory. This is a logo and CD cover created for a friend's band. A flyer for my bosses motor cycle club.
This is a satirical homage to a Grant Wood painting, <i>American Gothic</i>. This is acrylic on canvas, 30x30 inches created in 2012. It is currently on display in Domestic restaurant in Shepherdstown, WV and was created with the farm-to-table restaurant in mind. In this version, <i>American Gothic IV: the Reaping</i>, I wanted to play with gender roles and tradition. The idea of the restaurant was to reinvision American classics. <i>The Emperor has no Hair</i>, 24x30, acrylic on canvas 2017, self explanatory. <i>Deus Sit Propitius Huic Potatori</i>, a title taken from the Archpoet, a still life created in 2013 at a bar I used to tend. 22x28 Portrait of my old puppy, Buca from 2013. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 18x22 <i>The inelasticity of demand</i> states that we will never be happy with what we have. Oil and acrylic on canvas 30x24 from 2012. The infamous Rusty Squeezebox, oil and acrylic on canvas 22x28 from 2013.
<i>Smoker no. 1</i>, oil on canvas 18x24, 2018. A new series, in progress, of pretty girls who indulge in cigarettes. While this was once considered classy or affluent as recently as 20 years ago, it now ellicits a much different response from the viewer. <i>Smoker no. 2</i>, oil on canvas 18x24, 2018. Second in the smoker series, this is a portrait of Brody Dalle, formerly of the band the Distillers. <i>Permeablility</i>, oil and acrylic on canvas, 32x28, 2013. My heart is sensitive to outside influences. <i>Crabbing</i>, acrylic on canvas, 32x32, 2011. A work created for my sister to commemorate one of our favorite childhood events. <i>Courtship for Cuckolds</i>, oil on canvas, 28x24, 2010. Not a big fan of dating and the games associated. <i>Gnostics</i>, inspired by the Arab Spring and the impact of twitter. Oil on canvas 22x28, 2011.
This piece, 'Jazz Cigarettes' won second place at a juried exhibit at Shepherd University in 2014. iT is a first in a series concerning a post-humous collaboration between myself and my friends deceased grandmother. She was a newly active painter in her retirement community and her family was left with a surplus of canvases and work from before she passed away. Rather than totally erase her efforts, I wanted to incorporate some of her abstract and expressive work into some of my own. <i>PIGS or the shallow pursuit of wealth and fame</i>, multi-media on canvas 36x28, 2018. My favorite genre for painting is Neo-Dada. It suits my personality and view of the world. Wealth and fame are the guise in which the youth are being enslaved under. <i>High Society</i>, 28x24, 2013, oil on canvas. A project from college where we had to interpret a random idea for a piece. <i>OK Commuter</i>, oil on canvas, 42x24, 2013. This piece bothers me because the earlier versions were much better. One of the hardest lessons that I have had to learn as a painter is when to stop. My work is generally very expressive and painterly and is mostly better delivered when not over-worked. <i>Mecklenburg Inn</i>, 2012, acrylic on board, 18x24. One of my favortie haunts from college. <i>Carnivorous</i>, acrylic on board 18x24, 2018. A piece created for my vegetarian friend. <i>Brando</I> A portrait of Marlon Brando done in oil on canvas, from 2017, that is very glossy and hard to photograph! I recently have returned to my roots of classical realism because I think that people forgot I could do such things. More of my recent work to this point has been very contemporary and modern and did not necessarily showcase my ability to work traditionally. I hoped this piece would serve as bait to attract more commission work.

Illustration

1st in a four part series titled,'The 27 Club' about the infamous musicians who have passed at such an early age from 2016. 27 club, Jim Morrison A series of my favorite poets inspired equally by Dead Poets Society and Hellraiser. Bukowski was voracious. Sylvia Plath was the saddest of them all. A fun digital illustration. Graphite drawing on linen paper in 2015.
27 club, Jimi Hendrix They're making bigger babies! E.E. Cummings could bare his soul. A tip of the cap to Marcel Duchamp Mr. Sweet Potato Head, a much less popular toy. The Conservative!
27 club, Janis Joplin. A poster made for a friends concert dead poets, T.S. Eliot A portrait of the then Dhali Llama. A poster made to pass advice to freshmen in our junior year at design school. A memorial made for a friend's deceased pet.

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