YaniMade

03/12/2026

With Dr. JD, Kasey, Jen & Joselyn and the commissioned pencil drawing titled “MT. DECOMP” featuring the 4-mentioned above 😄 immortalized in rock forever

03/10/2026

Final commissioned artwork for In graphite pencil, I put Dr. JD and his longest tenured female staff, Casey, Jen and Joslyn on Mt. Rushmore…errrr…Mt. Decompression. I got the idea over a year ago, and while some staff have come and gone, they are the rocks, the cornerstones that remain. They’ve been so good to me while I’ve gone through herniated discs and related health trials. I now consider them friends, so this was fun to make, and it was a total surprise reveal this morning!

03/10/2026

Commission artwork reveal, their POV

03/10/2026

Commissioned Art reveal Pt 1, my pov- After my decompression treatment this morning I revealed the final commissioned drawing for Dr. JD Dudum and his awesome staff. I taped it to a foam core board, and taped my iPhone to the back of the board facing outward, so I could capture the staff’s organic reactions from my pov. They has no idea what it was going to be and I find this to be a fun reward for many hours of conceiving the idea, and executing the final work of art. Plus, they’re all my friends now, so it was going to be a good time no matter what. Perhaps a preseason warm up to taking commissions for the harsh critics 😆

02/04/2026

Thank you to for including my pastel drawing ‘Steph: 50-40-90’ on the cover of their February buyer’s guide! I like how they super imposed the exact pencils I used for the drawing! If you haven’t been to Lenz Arts store in Santa Cruz, you haven’t been in the best art store in the country.

01/18/2026

A final frame Job of past shelved work. My concept for this Bob Gibson pastel pencil drawing was a 1960’s style ticket voucher. Super delicate piece, and it couldn’t have come out any better. Michael the framer who worked on this hand painted the frame to get the desired color, which brings out the skin tones and pulls the whole composition together. Thanks as always to Andrew Lenz for keeping his family’s tradition making the best (and most unique) art store in the country!

12/14/2025

12/13/2025

Framing Bob Gibson pastel pt.2

12/13/2025

Framing Bob Gibson pastel Pt 1 !

11/14/2025

Removing any lint/dust on Jimmy Buckets before the grand framing!

10/09/2025

Framing the graphite drawing, Jimmy Buckets!