Originally from San Diego and currently residing in Portland, Oregon, I founded Finchum Art Company in 2019. 

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I do hyperrealistic animal portraits in scratchboard. Each hair is a single scratch in the clay. It is white clay covered in black ink and I hand carve or scratch the ink off to reveal the clay and develop a texture. I believe that in every realistic picture there is a set of abstract images making up a design. When you look close you see the chaos of my art and when you step back you see what you recognize as life.

 

My love of nature and drawing started early while growing up on an Indian reservation in rural Southern California and expanded rapidly when I had the opportunity to work as a caricature artist at the San Diego Zoo in my twenties.

 

I studied fine art animal portraits at Watts Atelier in Encinitas, California and I was accepted into the International Society of Scratchboard Artists in 2020.