Inspired by a catacomb saint.

Once upon an Inktober 2019, I started working on a series of sketchbook drawings, all in ink, all in black and white, and all with a black background. These were my only parameters, and yet through the prompts and the process, a theme started appearing. Magic users started to show up, but the magic always came with a terrible price. I translated these sketches into several iterations, ending with this series of 9 matted ink and watercolor paintings, in black, blue and embellished with gold.

The Witches is a series devoted to women reclaiming their power through whatever means are available. The Bone Witch seizes the power of her physical form, channeling magic through skulls and mushrooms. The seven tenets of The Satanic Temple comprise the text behind her with emphasis placed on III - One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.

Enjoy the warmth of a roaring fire and a hot beverage after a long day in the snowy wilderness, a tale is being told. The shadows are evoking the tale of the binding of Fenrir, from Norse myth. All the gods are afraid of Fenrir because he's a huge wolf and Loki's son, so they decide that he has to be chained. Fenrir breaks out of every chain that they try, until they get a thin and delicate chain made by the dwarves out of things that don't exist. It looks so puny that he suspects a trick, so will only consent to be bound if someone puts their hand in his mouth. Tyr (who has been his trusted friend) agrees and when Fenrir realizes that he has been fooled, bites his hand off. Fenrir is transported to a lonely place where he waits until Ragnarok, when he will break free to kill Odin and eat the sun. Having adopted a dog, I always feel bad for Fenrir, maybe if he had been trusted and cared for appropriately he wouldn't have become the monster that everyone thought he was from the beginning.

Once upon an Inktober 2019, I started working on a series of sketchbook drawings, all in ink, all in black and white, and all with a black background. These were my only parameters, and yet through the prompts and the process, a theme started appearing. Magic users started to show up, but the magic always came with a terrible price. I translated these sketches into several iterations, ending with this series of 9 matted ink and watercolor paintings, in black, blue and embellished with gold.

Once upon an Inktober 2019, I started working on a series of sketchbook drawings, all in ink, all in black and white, and all with a black background. These were my only parameters, and yet through the prompts and the process, a theme started appearing. Magic users started to show up, but the magic always came with a terrible price. I translated these sketches into several iterations, ending with this series of 9 matted ink and watercolor paintings, in black, blue and embellished with gold.

Once upon an Inktober 2019, I started working on a series of sketchbook drawings, all in ink, all in black and white, and all with a black background. These were my only parameters, and yet through the prompts and the process, a theme started appearing. Magic users started to show up, but the magic always came with a terrible price. I translated these sketches into several iterations, ending with this series of 9 matted ink and watercolor paintings, in black, blue and embellished with gold.

Once upon an Inktober 2019, I started working on a series of sketchbook drawings, all in ink, all in black and white, and all with a black background. These were my only parameters, and yet through the prompts and the process, a theme started appearing. Magic users started to show up, but the magic always came with a terrible price. I translated these sketches into several iterations, ending with this series of 9 matted ink and watercolor paintings, in black, blue and embellished with gold.

Once upon an Inktober 2019, I started working on a series of sketchbook drawings, all in ink, all in black and white, and all with a black background. These were my only parameters, and yet through the prompts and the process, a theme started appearing. Magic users started to show up, but the magic always came with a terrible price. I translated these sketches into several iterations, ending with this series of 9 matted ink and watercolor paintings, in black, blue and embellished with gold.

Once upon an Inktober 2019, I started working on a series of sketchbook drawings, all in ink, all in black and white, and all with a black background. These were my only parameters, and yet through the prompts and the process, a theme started appearing. Magic users started to show up, but the magic always came with a terrible price. I translated these sketches into several iterations, ending with this series of 9 matted ink and watercolor paintings, in black, blue and embellished with gold.

Once upon an Inktober 2019, I started working on a series of sketchbook drawings, all in ink, all in black and white, and all with a black background. These were my only parameters, and yet through the prompts and the process, a theme started appearing. Magic users started to show up, but the magic always came with a terrible price. I translated these sketches into several iterations, ending with this series of 9 matted ink and watercolor paintings, in black, blue and embellished with gold.

Once upon an Inktober 2019, I started working on a series of sketchbook drawings, all in ink, all in black and white, and all with a black background. These were my only parameters, and yet through the prompts and the process, a theme started appearing. Magic users started to show up, but the magic always came with a terrible price. I translated these sketches into several iterations, ending with this series of 9 matted ink and watercolor paintings, in black, blue and embellished with gold.

The Witches is a series devoted to women reclaiming their power through whatever means are available. The Hair Witch seizes power from her place, channeling her power through the earth and growing things. Her magic lies in the homestead, with symbols of keys and oak leaves showing her connection to the land.

The Witches is a series devoted to women reclaiming their power through whatever means are available. The Green Witch seizes control through financial avenues, acquiring capital as a path toward freedom.

Juxtaposing art nouveau style with pure profanity - this image expresses the dichotomy that exists within us all.

The darkest of The Seasons. This features a deer skull, juniper branches, the moon and stars. The winter is a season of dormancy, but also is a time of renewal for me. A chance to focus inwards while we all spend more time inside. There are few things more beautiful than a cold night full of stars and the silence of freshly fallen snow.

Summer is the most full of light of all The Seasons. With a bright golden sun rising over a lion skull surrounded by lupins, Summer is a joyous explosion. Paired with Winter, Summer is the predator to the prey, the light to the dark, and the outward to the inward. There is a quality to the light of early morning during the summer that can’t be fully appreciated without the dark coldness of winter.

Autumn is the reaping of The Seasons. Featuring a carrion crow skull surrounded by a wreath made of bittersweet, it floats above the abundant fields, while the sparks of the fire festival of this season rise above. Autumn is often considered a season of death and decay, but has traditionally been the time of the harvest, one of the most productive, and the one that will determine if the winter will be survived. The beauty of autumn is somehow baroque, frost patterns chasing across glass, the unexpected colors as the leaves change, the intensity of a bonfire’s sparks into a frosty night.

Spring is the most hopeful of The Seasons. With a rabbit skull, and robin’s eggs nestled in a wreath sprouting with new grass, Spring has the promise of new growth and the possibility of the future. The fields are empty in the spring, stores almost depleted, but there is the promise of asparagus, chives and more to come during the warming days. The beauty and strangeness of a green sprouting plant after the dullness of winter is truly something to behold.