My work featured on linesandcolors.com
Jun/100
Just found out that Charlie Parker wrote about my art and website on his totally wonderful blog – “Lines and Colors”!! What a great surprise to start the day with. I’ve been visiting and being inspired by Parker’s posts for a long time now.. Thank you Charlie!
BYU Illustration Alumni Show
Jun/102
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- Me standing with Richard Hull – He inspired and pushed us every day!
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- William Whitaker talking to Doug Fryer – one of my favorite teachers..
These pictures are from the currently showing BYU Illustration alumni show, showcasing 30 years of BYU graduates work. William Whitaker was there, and spoke to us at the dinner – along with Paul Mann. It was such a treat to see all my old professors again, Richard Hull, Doug Fryer, Robert Barrett.. and to be in the show along side such excellent artists. Others who are showing work here include Mitch Baird, Joe Brickey, Jason Bowen, Dave Malan (finally got to meet Dave! Yeah!! – his work is so awesome).. Also Chris Creek, Marty Haverson, Richard Russell, and many more.. it was a blast.
Portrait of my boys
Jun/101
Portrait of 2 boys in red
This is my latest painting. These are 2 of my sons, Eli and Garrett. They both decided to wear red shirts, and I kinda liked the idea. I ended up pushing a lot of green into the fence to compliment the red. I think it turned out pretty well.. although in the painting they look older than they really are.
On this one, I was trying to go pretty tight and really go for the realism. I had been looking at some of the wonderful portraits from the portrait society of America. These get me really excited.
It’s definitely the best skin tones I’ve done so far. I’ve also been looking a lot at Bouguereau lately – the master of figurative painting. Neutral grey is the key to painting convincing skin tones. I have relied too much in the past on burnt sienna, which is a wonderful earth tone red – but is on the orange side. Here I’m mixing naphtol red with b. sienna – and that is better. But you have to temper everything with grey.. that’s the key.
Garrett’s face (on the left) was repainted 3 times, and Eli’s was done twice. It’s challenging because it works best to paint the face in one sitting – while the paint is still wet. So you have to nail it in one shot. It’s really hard to make adjustments later, because you can’t blend into what’s there once it’s dry. I haven’t quite got the blends perfect, but I’m getting closer.
Pictures from the Portland show
Jun/100
Here’s some pics from my show this past week at the Poster Garden in Portland, OR. It was a pretty successful event, with over 200 attending… even though it rained (of course). It was nice to be inside, I felt bad for the artists who were outside on the sidewalks! I understand that if the weather was nice, there would have been close to a thousand visitors! So, maybe it’s worth it to try to do it again later in the summer.
But, met some really nice people, made some new friends – other artists here in Portland, and got lots of compliments! A fun show!
