Nupastel Sketches

Melissa
18 x 24"
pastel

Addy
18 x 24" pastel

Christian and Andrew
18 x 24" pastel

Andrew
12 x 16" pastel

Christian
12 x 16" pastel

The Egberts

16 x 20" pastel

Emma

18 x 24" pastel

Cowboy
18 x 24" pastel

I got the chance to visit the Bodies Exhibit after hours and draw from this real human skeleton.

Levi

My husband David was kind enough to pose for me while listening to "Ender's Game" on tape for this two-hour study.

"I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands"
22 x 30" pastel

"Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God"
22 x 30" pastel




"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth"
22 x 30" pastel

This was a 20 minute pose in Richard Hull's figure drawing class. I really liked how the edges turned out.

Here is a drawing by David Kassan of me. Using a product called Pan Pastels, he drew me for a demonstration at the 2010 Portrait Society of America Conference in Washington DC.

Still Life

I set up a few objects around my apartment for doing still life paintings in oil. I'm happy with how the colors turned out and the different light reflections from the metal and glass surfaces.

This one is still in progress

Painting

The Evening of the Her Dreams
18 x 24" oil




Untitled
18 x 24"

Angel of Patience
18 x 24" mixed media





Angel of Humility
18 x 24" mixed media



16 x 20 " oil

This was a life painting done from Richard Hull's figure painting class. The model posed 6 hours a week for about three or four weeks as we painted her.

Still in progress.

Lady with Horn
18 x 24" mixed media

Thomas S. Monson portrait in progress

Heather
16 x 20" oil

Heather was an excellent model. When I made it to this point in the painting, my teacher Robert Barrett suggested I stop and leave the painting alone before I over-worked it, even though we were only at hour three of twelve for this pose. I can't remember what I did for the remainder of the time allotted to paint the model.





Erin
9 x 12" oil

For this and the next painting, I was working with the artist William Whitaker in doing a series of head study paintings. Bill introduced me to using frosted mylar as a painting surface after he photographed both Erin and Anna to use as models. Frosted mylar is more commonly used for drafting or engineering applications. The mylar is great because you can tape it to black gator foam board and have instantly a gray toned surface to paint on and when you're finished, it is thin as a sheet of vellum for storage.

Anna
9 x 12" oil




Young Civil War Soldier
24 x 36" oil




Sam Houston
9 x 12" oil

This, along with the next three, was done from an old daguerreotype where I had to paint in the colors based on my experience from working from life.




Untitled
9 x 12" oil



Untitled
9 x 12" oil



Eliza
9 x 12" oil



Fox Hunt
16 x 20" oil


A fox hunt scene done by commission after Gainsborough.

Plein Air Paintings

This is the view looking out of my in-law's house in Leona Valley, CA.

For this view, I had to sneak through a barbed wire fence, brave some staring cows and climb a mountain. It was worth it.

I did this and the next painting in a plein air painting class taught by Richard Hull. Our location was off Geneva Road in Provo, UT. It ended up that one of days we were out painting that a bull escaped the barbed wire fence and took off down the country road toward us! Luckily, some police reinforcement and the owners of the farm arrived to handle the situation, so no one was harmed.

I really recommend reading "Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting" for anyone interested in learning about how to paint in the great outdoors.

This is off of Old State Street north of Springville, Utah. I did the whole thing with my palette knife, rather than my paintbrush.

Center Street in Historic Provo, Utah