Paper and acrylic paints. 16x20

Originally the scribble was blue and meant to be the background of the Pleated Woodpecker (scribble), but it as just too much. I painted the paper plum and gave it a warm background of its own.

Paper. 14x17 (matted to 17x20)

Inspired by Maya Angelou’s poem of the same name. Spiral arms contain words from the poem transliterated into long twig runes so that they play a decorative function for this piece.

Starting with “Woman” (the yellow runes) and moving clockwise: Woman, swarm, phenomenal, independent, secret, mystery, life, power.

Paper. 8x10

Part of the Color Block Bird series that attempts to deconstruct birds into their color and form. From the center, the colors to the left and right mirror the major plumage features in both position and percentage of coverage on the bird.

Paper. 8x10

Part of the Color Block Bird series that attempts to deconstruct birds into their color and form. From the center, the colors to the left and right mirror the major plumage features in both position and percentage of coverage on the bird.

Paper. 8x10

Part of the Color Block Bird series that attempts to deconstruct birds into their color and form. From the center, the colors to the left and right mirror the major plumage features in both position and percentage of coverage on the bird.

Paper. 8x10

Part of the Color Block Bird series that attempts to deconstruct birds into their color and form. From the center, the colors to the left and right mirror the major plumage features in both position and percentage of coverage on the bird.

Origami paper and acrylic ink. 8x10

Paper and alcohol ink. 9x12
A cut of an intermediate step in another artist’s piece.

Paper. 13x5
A cut of an Alfons Mucha art nouveau print from 1901.

Another art nouveau master, William H. Bradley, and his image of a woman and a peacock (1896). I fell down the art nouveau rabbit hol

Paper and crayon. 12x16

Paper. 8x10
A colleague in Bharadvājāsana pose. She is an Ashtanga practitioner and advocate, and was kind enough to provide excellent source material.

Paper. 16x20

Cutting of an 1895 William H. Bradley piece.

Paper. 5x7 

Interpretation of tattoo. One of four pieces in a limited series.

Paper. 8x10 (matted to 11x14)

Yoga pose based on a talented yogi

Paper. 12x12 

Delicate cutting of a yogi suspended over a chasm. Foreground is floating between two panes of glass above a field of deep blue.

Paper. 12x12

Second in my floating yogi series. Imaged based on a photo of Sky Corbett-Methot.

Paper. 12x12

Fourth in my floating yogi series. Image based on a photo of Brittany Allen.

Paper. 8x10 (matted to 11x14)

Portrait of a Russian artist (watercolors and digital) named Valeria Ko. 

Paper. 8x10 (matted to 11x14)

Two layers of jigsawed cuts (bottom: indigo blue, light blue, sky blue; top: poppy red and azure) create an expressive portrait. 

Paper. 8x10 

This image is three layers of six colors, five shades of purple as base and a final indigo layer for detail.

Cut lighting gel and alcohol inks. 18x24

Comprised of three layers—alcohol ink, cut gel, alcohol ink—this image is based on a yogi sitting in a forest as pigment powder floats around her.

Paper, rice paper, and acrylic ink. 20x26

The serene island with springs of gold floats on top of a background of hundreds of squares of rice paper painted with a wash of purple and burnt sienna ink.

Papercutting of Charon, ferryman of the Underworld, poling a ross the River Acheron