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Fine Art

Fine Art

Trained in human anatomy, value relationships, and traditional materials at SVA, I take on detailed fine art commissions and narrative oil portraits.

17 works

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Finished Vietnamese Spirit centre panel, a young man in glasses and a deep red Ao dai holding a gold five-pointed star, blue and red flame forms rising either side of him.

Underpainting stage of the Vietnamese Spirit centre panel, the figure blocked in with loose red brushwork on an orange ground before any other colour went down.

Raw

Retouched & Graded

Plate

Composite

Under-painting

Finished

Vietnamese Spirit - Long Lac Heart Reunion

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Fine Art

Finished A Plan in Tan's Hand, a charcoal drawing of a mock TIME cover, the masthead ruled in behind the head and the hand-lettered headline A Plan in Tan's Hand at the left.

First stage of A Plan in Tan's Hand, a loose graphite sketch of the head turned three-quarters with a hand raised to the chin, shading only blocked in.

Raw

Retouched & Graded

Plate

Composite

Under-painting

Finished

Vietnamese Spirit - Long Lac Heart Reunion

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Fine Art

Finished Young Man With Sunflower, the oil self-portrait in glasses on a red ground with a glowing sunflower tucked behind the ear and two monarch butterflies lifting away from it.

First stage of Young Man With Sunflower, the oil self-portrait blocked in flat against a dusty pink ground, before the glasses, the sunflower and the butterflies.

Raw

Retouched & Graded

Plate

Composite

Under-painting

Finished

Young Man With Sunflower

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Fine Art

Finished The Flower Crown On Sister's Hair, the girl in a crown of daisies, roses and a sunflower on a warm ground with a butterfly at her shoulder.

First stage of The Flower Crown On Sister's Hair, the child's head blocked in loosely in oil against a pale turquoise ground, long before the crown.

Raw

Retouched & Graded

Plate

Composite

Under-painting

Finished

The Flower Crown on Sister's Hair

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Fine Art

Finished Kyle's Portrait, the young man with vivid blue hair shading his eyes in a gold garment on a dark ground, a teal square, red circle and yellow triangle at his shoulder.

First stage of Kyle's Portrait, the figure painted in browns on a gold ground with one hand raised into the hair, before the blue hair and the coloured shapes.

Raw

Retouched & Graded

Plate

Composite

Under-painting

Finished

Kyle's Portrait

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Fine Art

draw & paint like a sculptor

oil paint & charcoal

Since mid-2025, oil painting and charcoal have been my primary medium for exploring the unique qualities of physical pigments in fine art. Drag the handle to compare the initial layers with the final varnish.

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."

- VINCENT VAN GOGH -

Gouache self-portrait in black-framed glasses on a deep red field, a red rose crossing the face, a spent sunflower at the shoulder and the letters T, A and N set into the composition.

Framed charcoal and graphite drawing of a mock TIME magazine cover, with a hand-lettered masthead and a portrait of a young man in glasses under the headline A Plan in Tan's Hand.

A Plan in Tan’s Hand

Four gouache panels in blue and gold shown together as a set, each staging a different idiom as a single image.

Gouache self-portrait with the top of the head opened like a planter and filled with coloured building blocks, a small green umbrella above and a tree at the left.

Gouache portrait of Bad Bunny with curly hair, moustache and beard, painted against the Puerto Rican flag.

Oil painting of the Statue of Liberty in green with a hand on her heart against red and white stripes, beside a hand-lettered blue panel reading Miss Liberty says, America needs love.

America Needs Love

Oil portrait of a young man with vivid blue hair shading his eyes, in a gold garment against a dark ground, with a teal square, red circle and yellow triangle at his shoulder spelling his full name in Mandarin characters.

Kyle’s Portrait

Oil portrait of a young girl in a crown of daisies, roses, tulips and a sunflower, a yellow butterfly at the left and a glowing blue butterfly at her shoulder, on a warm yellow to pink ground.

The Flower Crown On Sister's Hair

Oil self-portrait in glasses against a ground split between red and deep navy, with a glowing sunflower behind the ear and two monarch butterflies lifting away from it.

Young Man With Sunflower

Alcohol marker and coloured pencil illustration of a Vietnamese broken rice plate with grilled pork, a fried egg, herbs and pickles, hand-lettered Cơm Tấm.

Vietnamese Food

Gouache painting on a red field, a large gold five-pointed star with a single eye behind black-framed glasses set inside it.

Oil triptych Vietnamese Spirit, the Lac bird carrying a golden lotus, a young man in a red Ao dai holding a gold star, and a Ly-Tran dynasty dragon.

Vietnamese Spirit · Long Lac Heart Reunion

Gouache portrait of Jack Kirby in blues and teals, hand resting at his cheek, against a ground patterned with four-pointed stars.

Gouache portrait of Stan Lee smiling in blues, in dark-framed glasses and a shirt patterned with circled number four motifs.

Graphite and coloured pencil presentation drawing of the Baxter Building and the Excelsior tower in perspective, with hand-lettered callouts and a circled number four mark.

The Baxter Building & The Excelsior in Perspective

Alcohol marker, acrylic and coloured pencil still life of the Fantastic Four uniform, a blue suit with a circled four, a white glove in the sleeve, grey boots and a buckled belt, against cream with turquoise stars.

Fantastic Costume

‘Four’ The Stars