I have received many requests to document the process my paintings go through before deemed finished. Given that I am committed to allowing the process of each piece to develop as I work, most of the paintings go through many stages. Instead of planning out what my next move would be or having an end product in mind I spend long periods of time with each piece working toward a conclusion which tends to be seperate from the outset. Here are a couple paintings from the beginning to the end.

This painting is titled Untitled (purple). I started working on it in late November 2007 and finished it in May 2008. I don't have any really early images of the first month of development but I hope you enjoy what I do have as well as the working and reworking of the painting; like others that I have recently made this painting was finished by reductive means rather than additive.

This painting is titled Plea(se). I started working on it at the end of February 2007. Unfortunately, I didn't start to document my progress until the summer. It is pretty easy to see the progression of the painting, but the last two images are very similar due to working on refining the opaque blue wash in the last month.

This painting is titled Scare-Joy. I started working on it right after my first semester in the MFA program finished. It is easier to see in this painting the various techniques I use when making a painting. In this painting I incorporated compressed charcoal and oil stick with a very thin washes of oil paint.

This painting is titled Stalwart. It has the most dramatic change of any painting I have done. It is appears to be two or three different paintings that have been layered on top of each other, but since I was never satisfied with any of the previous stages, I can't rightly claim that it's more than one painting.

This painting is titled Move Ahead. I began this painting in fall of 2006 and worked on it a lot during the long holiday break. The first image is of it at the end of that break, after I had been working on it for about two months. As you can see from the second image I went back into the painting extensively and changed it quite a bit while preserving aspects of the original footprint. It is the second painting I finished in NY. I believe it is reminiscent of New York in many ways, not the least of which are the movement it contains and the layers of color that have been subdued by the layer of grayness; it is very much about history and accumulation.