Original Painting: SOLD

The original 30x30 painting has found its forever home. A limited number of Studio Embellished Canvas Editions are available in three sizes.

20x20 — Edition of 15
30x30 — Edition of 10
40x40 — Edition of 5

Each edition begins as a museum-quality canvas reproduction and is individually hand-embellished in my studio with painted details, texture, and real gold leaf. Every piece is signed and numbered, and because each is finished by hand, no two are exactly alike.

Once these editions are sold, no additional Studio Embellished Editions of How to Disappear will be produced.

Acrylic on gold leaf

There’s something very Taurus season about this piece. Still water. Slow observation. The luxury of not needing to perform. An alligator barely breaking the surface, fully present but almost invisible. Existing quietly inside its own world.

This painting came from thinking about restraint instead of excess. Letting negative space breathe. Letting the gold become atmosphere, heat, reflection, and silence. The subject sits low in the composition like a secret waiting to be noticed.

The gold shifts throughout the day, pulling warm honey tones in the morning and deeper bronze shadows at night. The water ripples feel suspended in time, somewhere between camouflage and emergence.

Part of the Land & Sea collection, How to Disappear explores Louisiana wildlife through stillness, tension, beauty, and instinct. A reminder that disappearing is not always about hiding. Sometimes it’s about becoming fully embedded in your environment.