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2026
6 × 8 in.
Watercolor and Ink on Paper
A creature that is half Dragonite and half Charizard floats above a group of scooter kids, breathing fire down onto them. The character combines two of my favorite Pokémon. I have always loved Dragonite's body because of how round, friendly, and cute it looks, but I love Charizard's orange coloring. Instead of choosing between them, I took what I liked about both and created my own version.
The creature's cute appearance is intentionally contrasted with what it is doing. Something that looks friendly and almost harmless is casually breathing fire onto the scooter kids below.
The piece comes from my painting Scooter Hell, which is based on my hatred of scooter kids at skateparks. As a skateboarder, scooter kids have always been one of those ridiculous little frustrations for me. They cut through the park, get in the way, and somehow always seem to appear exactly where you are trying to skate.
Rather than showing that frustration realistically, I turn it into a completely exaggerated fantasy. In this world, being annoyed by scooter kids isn't solved by asking them to move. It's solved by creating a Dragonite-Charizard hybrid that flies over the skatepark and sets them on fire.
The violence is intentionally cartoonish and absurd. It's not about actually wanting anyone hurt. It's about taking a tiny, everyday frustration and escalating it so far beyond reason that it becomes funny.
Scooter Kid Repellent is also representative of how I like to paint. I take things I genuinely love, things that annoy me, characters and images that live in my head, and combine them into a reality that makes more sense to me than the real one sometimes does.
2026
6 × 8 in.
Watercolor and Ink on Paper
A creature that is half Dragonite and half Charizard floats above a group of scooter kids, breathing fire down onto them. The character combines two of my favorite Pokémon. I have always loved Dragonite's body because of how round, friendly, and cute it looks, but I love Charizard's orange coloring. Instead of choosing between them, I took what I liked about both and created my own version.
The creature's cute appearance is intentionally contrasted with what it is doing. Something that looks friendly and almost harmless is casually breathing fire onto the scooter kids below.
The piece comes from my painting Scooter Hell, which is based on my hatred of scooter kids at skateparks. As a skateboarder, scooter kids have always been one of those ridiculous little frustrations for me. They cut through the park, get in the way, and somehow always seem to appear exactly where you are trying to skate.
Rather than showing that frustration realistically, I turn it into a completely exaggerated fantasy. In this world, being annoyed by scooter kids isn't solved by asking them to move. It's solved by creating a Dragonite-Charizard hybrid that flies over the skatepark and sets them on fire.
The violence is intentionally cartoonish and absurd. It's not about actually wanting anyone hurt. It's about taking a tiny, everyday frustration and escalating it so far beyond reason that it becomes funny.
Scooter Kid Repellent is also representative of how I like to paint. I take things I genuinely love, things that annoy me, characters and images that live in my head, and combine them into a reality that makes more sense to me than the real one sometimes does.