A friend commissioned me to paint a portrait of him and his girlfriend for their first anniversary. He provided a great photo reference, which captured a serene moment the two shared over the breakfast table.

In planning my approach to this painting, I drew inspiration from Vermeer and Hopper, and particularly their use of light, color and composition in their work. Both artists are also known for painting compositions that depict very unobtrusive, everyday scenes - much like the one depicted here.

This is a digital portrait of a band from Texas, Khruangbin. With this piece, I tried to capture the awesome psychedelic energy of their live concert experience.

I started by drawing a preliminary pen and marker sketch (above). Once that was established, I gathered different reference photos from their live performances - compositing together individual photos of the band members. I had a lot of fun experimenting with exaggerated color intensity and using ripple effects to mimic sound waves throughout.

These two portraits were done as a personal commission, for which I created digital portraits in an oil pastel style. I enjoyed the challenge of mimicking the look and feel of a pastel drawing, and furthermore creating two portraits that hang well together side-by-side.