"The Moon's Guardian"

"The Moon's Guardian"

2021

...but Tilion was a hunter of the company of Oromë, and he had a silver bow. He was a lover of silver, and when he would rest he forsook the woods of Oromë, and going into Lórien he lay in dream by the pools of Estë, in Telperion’s flickering beams; and he begged to be given the task of tending for ever the last Flower of Silver.

-"The Silmarillion", by J.R.R. Tolkien

"Conchero"

2021

Concheros are Mexican traditional dancers with heavy Mesoamerican influence. They are sometimes refered to "Aztec dancers", though the dance is not strictly speaking Aztec or indigenous. It's not uncommon to find them in public squares and parks anywhere in Mexico.

"Minds the Dead Have Ravished"

2018

These are men whose minds the Dead have ravished. Memory fingers in their hair of murders, Multitudinous murders they once witnessed.

-"Mental Cases", by Wilfred Owen

I did this series inspired by shell shocked soldiers of the First World War back in 2018 in time for the 100th anniversary of the armistice. Let us all strive to live in a world free of the ravages of imperialism and war.

"Galadriel's Test"

2021

She stood before Frodo seeming now tall beyond measurement, and beautiful beyond enduring, terrible and worshipful.

-"The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", by J.R.R. Tolkien

A small (albeit very memorable) moment in LotR, yet perhaps the single, most important, defining moment in the whole of Galadriel's storyline; where everything she has ever dreamed off comes within her grasp, and she resists the temptation and accepts her own diminishment.

"Bygone Strength"

2021

Study of an early 20th century athlete. 

"The Mexican Nazgûl"

2021

Self-portrait as a Nazgûl.

This was surprisingly difficult to make. It was a struggle to draw the face haggard and wraith-like and still make it recognizable as me. I am very happy with the result though.