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Spring Commissions!

It’s that time of year… the weather is getting warmer, the bike rides are getting faster, and the end of the school year is in sight! With the spring semester winding down soon, my schedule will open up for commissions again. This spring I will be available for 1-2 commissioned projects.

The surfers, skiers, and sprinter paintings below are three commissioned paintings I made for a friend a few years ago. I really enjoyed making these – not only because they all feature athletes, but also because I could play with the elements of paintings that I really dig: surprising colors, juicy paint, and big bold shapes.

Check out my commissions page to learn more about the process of making custom artwork and to see other commissioned paintings I’ve made in the past. And email me if this sounds interesting to you. Cheers!

Surfing painting

Ski painting

Cycling sprinting painting

How I painted Chosen Path, a commissioned artwork

This morning I installed a new painting in a collector’s home. This painting has been a wonderful project to work on, so I thought you might like to hear about how it developed.

The painting was commissioned by a filmmaker as a wedding anniversary/holiday gift for his partner who is a neurologist. The client asked me to combine stills from one of his films with illustrations of brain cells by the 19th century artist/scientist Santiago Ramon y Cajal, one of his wife’s favorite artists. He trusted me to come up with something using all of those images as references and was open to the finished painting being abstract rather than looking like any of the photos he sent me.

To make the painting, I ended up layering image after image to find new overlapping shapes.Then through a process of finding and combining shapes and playing with color, the painting emerged. It was a fantastic project to work on.

If you’d like to commission an artwork, you can learn more about the process here or email me to start the process.

chosen path painting
The finished painting: Chosen Path, 2021, acrylic on canvas, 30×40 inches
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