Fine Art

A Wacom Cintiq drawing tablet is a great tool for forensic work, but is fun to create fine art with as well. It’s not really that big of a leap from traditional tools. A stylus is just another way of making marks: a stick of charcoal, a pencil, a conte crayon, oil paint, and now a digital stylus. Each tool marks differently, and each takes practice and skill to master.

This is some of my fine art work over the past several years that was done in traditional and digital media.

Digital still life with elephant.

Skull with thick paint and palette knife brushes in Painter 2018.

A logo I did for one of the coppers I used to work with. He now runs Tap Rack Tactical, Law Enforcement training. He asked for something understated.

Composite Lenger. Top half John Lennon; Bottom half Mick Jagger.

This is working with another photo I took in Australia of some grasses with spiderwebs. Applied a woodcut effect and different coloring methods.

Digital fancy chicken.

A mission gate in Santa Barbara. Edited with woodcut effect and cleaned up superfluous details.

Mandala using thick paint and a gradient background. Beta testing Painter 2019.

Digital painting of a beetle.

Another photo I took of grasses in Australia. I gave this a woodcut effect and then cut out superfluous background details, then used thick paint on the pods and also on the background to illustrate wind blowing through the stalks.

One more photo from Australia of a banksia tree. Woodcut effect, handcolored.

My version of an Australian dreamtime painting on a skull.

Human skull in foreground in thick paint. Skull and crossbones in background. Digital.

Digital charcoal brushes. This is a pond turtle skull.

Another woodcut of a photo of a wall in Carmel CA. Hand tinted.

This image is from a photo I took of a coral tree in Hawaii. Another woodcut effect and hand edited and colored.

Photo of stringybark gum trees edited with cloning and hand painting. I took this photo in Kojonup Western Australia.

Colored pencil. This is a real shell covered in worked silver with gemstones that my husband gave me. I believe they're from Tibet.

Skull with watercolor brushes in Painter 2017.

Digital skull and crossbones.

Colored pencil beetles.

Still life oil painting.

Colored pencil skull.

Colored pencil pile o skulls.

Graphite from sketchbook.

Charcoal Peter Dinklage from sketchbook.

Colored pencil sketch of shell.

Carbon dust drawing of shell.

Oil painting of a bantam chicken skull. Private collection.

Charcoal from sketchbook.

Invisible Children. Colored pencil. Inspired by short film of same name.

Colored pencil drawing of a cicada. This is now in a private collection in Australia.

A fast loose sketch of a skull using different brushes in Painter 2016.

Colored pencil drawing of orangutan.

Colored pencil owl drawing.

Graphite sketch of torso.

Charcoal head profile from sketchbook.

Graphite droopy face from sketchbook.

Colored pencil mushroom drawing.

Charcoal shells from sketchbook.

Charcoal head drawing from life.

Graphite on vellum. Drawing of my dad.

Pen and ink. Stipple drawing of a crow.

Graphite drawing from sketchbook.

Carbon dust drawing of shells in wooden bowl.

Bobcat cranium, inferior view. Colored pencil on vellum.

Oil painting. Bobcat skull. Private collection.

Colored pencil still life drawing.

Graphite David Bowie from sketchbook.

Charcoal still life from sketchbook.

Graphite Don Cheadle sketch from sketchbook.

Colored pencil beetle.

Graphite head from sketchbook.

Pen and ink bantam chicken skull.

Graphite Clint Eastwood from sketchbook.

Graphite drawing from sketchbook.

Charcoal gourd drawing from sketchbook.

Graphite old woman face from sketchbook.