Greetings, I am an artist from Illinois, working in Pennsylvania. My current and previous schooling includes The Waichulis Studio, Studio Incamminati, the Angel Academy of Art and the University of Illinois. I hope you enjoy the artwork and thanks for visiting.
at the studio 4/2008
Gastronomy,
Enophilia,
Epicureanism,
Architecture,
Japanese and English gardens,
Landscapes,
Humanism,
Costume and drapery,
Stage design and lighting,
Photography,
Wagashi,
Dioramas,
Cultural history,
Sea creatures,
Neurosis,
Optical illusions,
Novelties,
Puzzles,
Motivational behavior,
Space exploration,
Smells,
Mythology and folk tales,
Museum shows,
Art history, theory and critique
Ryuichi Sakamoto,
Max Richter,
Camille Saint Saens,
Bill Laswell,
Pete Namlook,
Harold Budd,
Cell,
Cardamar,
Hans Zimmerman,
Jeff Mills,
Uwe Schmidt,
Brian Eno,
The Orb,
The original Pink Floyd,
Bjork,
The Police,
Steely Dan,
Earth Wind and Fire,
Fleetwood Mac,
Allman Brothers,
Bob Dylan,
Bauhaus,
Ravi Shankar,
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan,
Salif Keita,
Aretha Franklin,
Mahelia Jackson,
Cesoria Evora,
The Sheltering Sky, Bernardo Bertolucci/
Prospero’s Books, Peter Greenaway/
Gosford Park, Robert Altman/
A Pure Formality, Giuseppe Tornatore/
The Lives of Others, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck/
No Country for Old Men, The Coen Brothers/
Adaptation, Spike Jonze/
Babette’s Feast, Gabriel Axel/
Big Night, Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci/
Brazil, Terry Gilliam/
Spirited Away, Hayao Miyazaki/
City of Lost Children, Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet/
Amelie, Jean-Pierre Jeunet/
Dreams, Akira Kurosawa/
The Matrix, The Wachowski brothers/
Amadeus, Milos Forman/
The Fifth Element, Luc Besson/
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Tom Stoppard/
The Cell, Tarsem Singh
Chungking Express, Wong Kar-Wai
Art and Illusion, E.H Gombric,
Painting Techniques of the Masters, Hereward Cooke
Human Anatomy for Artists, Eliot Goldfinger
Charles Bargue Drawing Course, Gerald Ackerman
Methods and Materials of the Great Schools and Masters, Sir Charles Eastlake
Any of the Andrew Loomis books
Fiction:
Street of Crocodiles, Bruno Schulz/
Gormenghast , Mervyn Peake/
Dune, Frank Herbert/
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson/
A Distant Episode, Paul Bowles/
The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky/
The Windup Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami/
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad/
Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll/
100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel Marquez/
Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Anderson/
Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury/ Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
Contemporary:
Anthony Waichulis
Adrian Gottlieb
Helene Knoop
Everett Raymond Kinstler
Annie Leibovitz
Andrew Wyeth
Daniel Sprick
Istvan Sandorfi
Past:
Ilya Repin
John Singer Sargent
Diego Velazquez
Rembrandt van Rijn
Giovanni Tiepolo
Michelango Caravaggio
Willem van Aelst
Jan Van Eyck
Comic Artists:
Chuck Jones,
Jean Henri Gaston Giraud,
Chris Ware,
Bill Seinkewitz,
Robert Crumb,
Winsor McCay,
Robert Williams
Other Artists:
Filippino Lippi,
Paolo Veronese,
Luca Giordano,
Gian Lorenzo Bernini,
Giovanni Battista Piranesi,
Fredrich Van Amerling,
Johannes Vermeer,
Anthony Van Dyke,
Lawrence Alma-Tadema,
Heironymous Bosch,
JoaquÃn Sorolla y Bastida,
Claude Monet,
Cecilia Beaux,
Vincent Van Gogh,
Mary Cassatt,
Salvadore Dali,
Kathe Kollwitz,
Franklin Booth,
Bernie Wrightson,
Harvey Dunn,
Howard Pyle,
Andrew Loomis,
Norman Rockwell,
NC Wyeth,
Maxfield Parrish,
Alfonse Mucha,
Alfred Hitchcock,
Jan Svankmajer,
Stanley Mouse,
MC Escher,
Chris Van Allsburg,
Ezra Jack Keats,
Kit Williams,
Syd Mead,
Craig Mullins,
Linda Bergkvist,
Feng Zhu,