Digital

Austin, Texas

My childhood was an exploration of art, meticulously studying artists like Bill Watterson and Berkeley Breathed to Andy Warhol and Peter Max to Salvador Dalí and Mark Ryden. Consequently, my own art evolved from penciled cartoons to realistic portraits to surrealist psychedelic scenescapes. As a teen, I earned commissioned murals, posters, T-shirts, advertisements, and a weekly comic strip in the local newspaper - all before graduating high school. Later, while focused on my other creative passion, music - based solely on the need for cover art for my releases - I worked for years to master Adobe software, eventually becoming a graphic designer, realizing how much I love the artform. In 2014, I opened my art and design studio, Plaid Design, officially migrating to the digital art space. This led to the development of my unique art style, which I lovingly call Mod Pop Art; my mixed-media approach combines hand-painted digital artwork with graphic design techniques to create my vibrant, colorful clean-line style. Drawing inspiration primarily from pop culture, my graphic portrait and poster work breathes new life into classic and current references, putting a fun, original spin on pop surrealism, often with a twist of humor and absurdist parody. The result, I hope, is bold and striking eye-candy, with a vibe that feels vintage, yet unmistakably modern. Along with commissioned art and design work, I've been selling my original art pieces in signed/numbered limited edition fine art prints on canvas and paper to clients all over the world for over a decade.