My little gallery

Oil Painting using color extraction method. The idea is to lay the base color in shape form first, then remove the paint to create highlights. 2005.

Jane Doe. Graphite pencil with cutout comic-style overlays. A thank-you gift for my forensic artist teacher. A composite of 5 different women's facial features. 2017.

Princess Perfect character reference sample. She is in every media of art I work in. I drew her first draft in 2008. This is her third draft. She is my" go-to" character for experimenting. 

In my color study assignment, I used Joaquin Phoenix as The Joker from the 2019 film release. I drew a miniature version of him in makeup and used 3 color themes. Adobe Photoshop.

I design movie poster style backgrounds to composite with photos of real people. Adobe Photoshop Elements. 2024.

Menu board designs I did for a local market. I used real photos of the food and placed them into the menu design. I also did sandwich making charts. Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. 2018.

This is a knee bruise with a split. No blood is added here, My focus is the discoloration of the bruising. Grafton Makeup, trauma kit. 2023.

On a lighter note, these are Papier Mache baked Cornish Hens for the screenplay, "Holmes for the Holidays". 2024.

Whimsical Forest Creature. This oversized puppet I made and wore for the Wintertide Lightshow Festival. Papier Mache, materials, light strings, and a backpack rack. 9 feet tall.2023.

Only if you're not claustrophobic. Face cast of a real person.

Blood balls and squibs.

Halloween is always fun with a zombie parade

Night of the Living Dead. Theatre show. I taught how to do makeup the old-fashion way. Latex, glue, tissue paper, creme and powder makeup. 2022.

Great talented zombies!

Different year. This year I trained two people who wanted to learn. We made latex prosthetics, makeup, blood and gore tricks and had lots of slimy fun. 2023

Workshop for Charolette's Web. This is in conjunction of a youth program for a two-week intensive production training camp at the theatre.

Workshop for Alice in Wonderland. This is in conjunction of a youth program for a two-week intensive production training camp at the theatre.

The Hobbit. the Troll scene, over sized trolls with large hands towering 12 feet.

The classic, "Night of the Living Dead", George Romero. Great actors and an exciting time with blood, slime, and zombie effects the Tom Savini way. Squibs, blood balls, latex wounds, puss, a 20-foot intestine, and a gut bag.

My favorite oversized puppet and I was honored to be able to perform using my animation skills to apply movement to the actor's voice, who was in the back room. It took 5 people to operate Smaug.  Puppet designed my team: Cat, Marrissa, Jeff, and myself.

Working with Marissa had been great as learning and exploring stage effects filled the house every show.