The Alchemy of Imagination
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When I completed the exterior mural at Fitness Compound, they asked me “Looks amazing, now can you do the interior?” Even though it was a tight timeline, I was thrilled to get another chance to contribute another mural to their awesome space. For this mural,…

FITNESS COMPOUND INTERIOR

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Oil on Panel 18″ x 24″ “How do you get your ideas?” I am often been asked this question. The answer varies from painting to painting. Sometimes it’s something I read about, sometimes it’s based on an experience I had, sometimes it’s based on a…

Rebirth

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Fitness Compound in Bothell, WA invited me to create an eye-catching mural on their north exterior wall. It was a fun and challenging process to create a mural for this unusually shaped wall. When I design a mural like this, it’s important to remember that…

Fitness Compound Exterior

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Painted with Overall Murals 13′ x 20′ Oil Enamel on Wood

Tinder

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Oil on Panel 12″ x 18″ There are secret lives just out of our peripheral vision. We rush about, consumed with our work, our hopes, our ambitions. However, The Other is always there. Strange lives we know nothing about, whose experience is so different from…

The Outsider

Techno-Fae is a fantastic realism oil painting by American artist Dan Cohen

  Oil on Panel19.5″ x 14.5″ (framed)2023 “Cyberspace: an Imaginal Land for creatures of the Imaginal. Is Cyberspace haunted by what in other times were referred to as, “the Good People”, “The Others”, or “The Fae”? After all, They offer us treats and treasures that…

Techn0-Fae

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Oil on Panel 16″ x 11.5″ (17.5″ x 13″ framed) It was clear that no one had descended on this path for centuries. Immense, columnar crystals stood like sentinels gleaming in the lava-light. The molten earth had reclaimed most of the builders’ structures and statues,…

Descent into the Depths

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Oil on Panel 12″ x 17″ The dawn bloomed brilliantly, its warmth driving away the chill of the wind atop the ramparts. Both Warrick and his griffin steed were under no illusions, their army was far outnumbered. Still, they knew that even if this was…

First Light, Last Flight

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Oil on Panel 20″ x 16″ The ancients saw the Sea and the Night Sky as very similar in their nature. The Waters Above, and the Waters Below. Space was not a vacuum, but rather full of the Astral Fluid, within which the stars floated.…

Queen of Sea and Starlight

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I was contacted by a corporate representative that was looking for a muralist to design and paint a memorial mural for Tim Shride, one of their team leaders who had passed away. The design was open but they wanted to include several interests that he…

Tim Shride Memorial Mural

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I was contracted by RACC (Regional Arts and Culture Council) to repaint this mural originally painted in 1998 by Adriene Cruz. This mural, which was originally funded through Multnomah county’s percent for art program, was one of the first murals I saw getting painted when…

Walnut Park Restoration

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Williamsburg Brooklyn, NYC Painted for Overall Murals

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