Rocky Reed (b. 1988) is a self-taught artist living in Des Moines, Iowa. He currently paints contemporary realist pieces featuring still life, landscape/cityscape, and figurative subjects.

Rocky makes an effort to impart a sense of poetry, bravura, improvisation, and presence to his paintings. He selects subjects and compositions based on complexity, variety, and compelling visual relationships. He adheres to a vegan approach when selecting painting materials; completing paintings using all vegan-friendly paints/pigments, glues, and supports.

In addition to painting, Rocky enjoys athletics, cooking, programming, music, and literature.

This site was made from scratch by me. If you want to reverse-engineer any of the code from it and use it go ahead, codebase is available here. The code is unminified and contains comments. All the code for the site is licensed under the Zero-Clause BSD License.