Chris grew up in a fine art household. The grandson of a former Hollywood make-up artist, he shared his papa’s passion for sketching, painting, and woodwork. During grade school, he was constantly sketching, filling several notebooks with detailed pencil art.
He found his stride in reproducing existing imagery, be it scenes from TV and video games, or photographs both personal and from books and magazines. While the majority of his early art was focused on pencil and paper, his painting skills are on display in two pieces he completed for his husband’s office.
Chris began exploring glass work as a way to bring his experience and techniques in sketching, painting, and craftsmanship to a unique medium. His trademark is shading and contrast, and he recognized stained glass as a way to incorporate light to bring this skill to the next level. Inspired by the techniques and visual style of traditional stained glass from the Middle Ages, Chris focuses on staying as true-to-form as possible, crafting intricate details out of individual panes of glass, applying shading through vitreous paints, and assembling through copper foiling and solder.
With over 600 hours of training and experience, Chris is bringing his stained glass artwork to market with his premier piece: a recreation of a character portrait of Lord Hades from the popular rougelike video game Hades, incorporating over 125 pieces of individually cut glass and over 50 hand-painted elements backlit by a hand-made lightbox. His work is designed to be wall mounted and mimic sunlight through a window. While Chris is excited to be able to offer Lord Hades made-on-demand, he is actively working on additional designs and is looking forward to creating pieces with expanded reverse sketching and fused glass elements. His goal is to build a diverse portfolio of eye-catching and unique made-on-demand designs covering a variety of video game art as well as space-themed and San Diego-themed designs across a variety of sizes and complexity. Join our mailing list to be informed as new designs are available to order.