Female birds with confusing names.

Happy New Year!!!

Thank you all for sticking with me through this crazy and hectic year of moving from California to Sweden. I hope 2026 will be much more relaxing and filled with more art!

This painting is inspired by the Swedish tradition of hanging star lanterns in the windows of every home, so even the days are cold and dark, the cities are lit with cozy magical stars 🌟⭐✨

What if there was a ghost in the opera house that was killing people?

Requires you to accept the existence of ghosts, but otherwise is a straightforward story.

What if the chief contractor who built the opera house was a deformed circus freak who used his experience building palaces and torture chambers for sultans to keep building secret passageways and torture chambers in the basement when construction halted during the Franco-Prussian War, and then kept living down there working on an opera and killing and blackmailing people who crossed him and also training a pretty opera singer that he wants to marry?