Richmond Ballet Nutcracker

Here, a painting commissioned by the Richmond Ballet for The Nutcracker. They wanted to have more figures from the story involved, but the Nutcracker had to be the primary focal point. My solution was to have the characters jumping out of his hat— not unlike a hollow Russian wooden doll. Many thanks to Aaron Sutten for the assignment!

No Man’s Land

I had great opportunity to work for my church, West End Assembly of God. The Christmas production this year is an original story and score called No Man’s Land. I received a call from Bob Laughlin, the Music and Fine Arts pastor back in July to start concepting ideas. We created a logo, program cover, t-shirt designs and marketing materials including web flash animations for banner ads and press releases. The production, as it does every year, includes over 300 people and runs for two weeks, 18 performances. Oh, and Ann Tyler is in two scenes!