Off the easel: Inside-Out: Snail Mail (USPS) 14”x 18” oil on panel. Thank you, @strangebirdart.bsky.social, for letting me use your #pigeon captures as references 🙏🏼. I wanted to bring in the diversity of these overlooked birds (& the obvious OG history of DMs 🐦)

I was excited to have my painting accepted to @archenemyarts.bsky.social 2023 Open Call, then to have this same painting accepted to the NHP&CC 124th Annual Juried Exhibit in Feb! This morning I was beyond the moon to find out it was bought for the club’s private collection! Someone pinch me!

Finished this one a couple of weekends ago, finally! “Guaicaipuro” - 24”x18” oil on panel

Last year I came up with the idea of the troupial, Protector of Gummies, for a mini woodcut bootcamp led by Tom Hück at CCP. The bootcamp was 3 days & an all nighter to get this 8.5x12 sketch pulled on the 3rd day. I learned so much about the process and took home a concept I continued exploring

In 2019, I finished “Icterus, Icterus,” 30”x40” titled after the national bird of Venezuela. I intended on this series, with my life as an expat, as my motif. These past couple of months I’ve been working on this 2nd one (smaller at 18x24), in oils. ~75% there.

Hey 👋🏼 brief introduction:
CT livin’, Venezuelan-born, painter, printmaker, engineer, passionate stoic, 5wing4. I can’t find enough time in my days or enough sleep in my nights.

This Summer&Fall I took part in New Haven’s largest mural as an apprentice under Mike DeAngelo (put together by the City + Yale) they put together a cool video together here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=3m8r... not a lot of muralists in Connecticut and it would be awesome to do more work like this!

Is Bluesky the move from meta? I don’t know if I can keep up 😮‍💨