Roman Horses

10 3/4" x 8 3/4"

Watercolor and ink on Arches

2023

I was researching for a paper I had to write for my architecture and interior design history class. I was writing about Nero's Golden Palace. The palace was constructed in 64AD, Nero died 68AD and in those 4 years, so much drama that is not at all relevant. The frescoes inside the palace were painted by an unknown person? and after Nero's death the buildings around the palace were demolished and the rubble was used to fill the palace in. The ceilings were so tall in parts of the palace that it was impossible to fill properly, and plumbing was run from the palace to a bathhouse that was constructed directly on top. Fast forward to the 1480's and an artist named Pinturiccho fell through a hole in the park, down into a room of the palace. Not to the ground but onto of the pile of rubble that had been used to fill the space, so he is eyelevel with a fresco that was painted in 63AD. Absolutely incredible. I was dumbfounded. So I was studying the remains of the frescos as best I can without actually going to Rome. and I realize that I recognize some of the bits and pieces. more research and I learn that Raphael spent time in the caverns that were later excavated to reveal the palace, studying the frescos.

The bottom portion of this painting is based entirely on a tiny portion of a Raphael fresco. The shell is a nod to my homegirl Venus, as well as Neptune who was thought to have helped man domesticate horses. The Ankhal-Teke horses are the closest living relatives to the first domesticated horses, the nails are a symbol of their domestication. They can go days without water in the desert and are known to be light tempered despite looking like absolute nightmare fuel.

A limited number of prints will be available soon, original will go to the grave with me.

Sloots

watercolor on Arches

2024

available as a free wallpaper on my Instagram (just click through the image)

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A buncha butts

2023

I have this templated for a free phone wallpaper on my Instagram

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a spectacle

she didn't mean to absorb her sister

watercolor and ink on Arches

2023

4"x3.5"

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Gargoyle

Watercolor and Ink on Arches

original is 4"x3.5"

2023

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Moth Teeth

Watercolor on Arches

original is 4"x4"

2023

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A collection of small things

watercolor on scrap arches

2023

Winter 2022

This doesn't have a name

Ink, watercolor and gold posca on mixed media paper

2022

Available for purchase

I redid this painting 4 times, not because I messed it up but because I kept unintentionally leaving it where Maz could draw on it, she had just started walking and I hadn't adjusted. I used my own hand as a reference.

Moongate

2022

NFS

This was supposed to go with something else but I scrapped the idea, I think I am going to do some more of these?

Beetle No1

Originals will be available when the series is complete

Epicurus on a beetle

6"x8"

originals will be available when I finish the series.

No.3 Watercolor and ink on Arches. "Torso of A Satyr", Roman 1st century AD- 2nd century Marble on Eotithoes pelinii (Hope,1843) Family Cerambycidae (Latrieille 1802)

2023?

A limited number of prints were sold. originals will be available when I finish the series

Beetle No2 from a series of beetles with statues on their backs?

prints are no longer available. originals will be available when I finish the series. 2023

Gouche on primed wood panel

2023

NFS ?

Floral study bubbles from my garden

watercolor and ink on arches

Very small

2023

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Mazzy painted this with me 2022

watercolor and ink

NFS I want to frame this for her bedroom.