Children's Oil Portraits

detail

Eldon
9 x 12" oil

I love the way the red in his shirt reflected back up into his cheeks.


Here is first the under painting and then the finished piece.




Levi II
9 x 12" oil




Cache
18 x 24" oil

11 x 14" oil

Melissa




A New Underpainting




Cayden
18 x 24" oil



Miles
11 x 14" oil

Emma

11 x 14" oil

Luke in progress

Luke
11 x 14" oil

Levi
11 x 14" oil

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.

Life Painting Studies

This is probably one of my favorite three hour pose head paintings. My teacher, Don Seegmiller, taught me a lot about simplifying down to a limited palette of only a few colors: payne's grey, white, yellow ochre, cadmium red and alizarin crimson.

Six hour study

I did the following two paintings during a portrait painting workshop taught by Bjorn Thorkelson. He invented a really excellent measuring system called Accurasee for artists to use while painting or drawing from life. This involves using a grid to transfer what you see in life to your work in a way that helps ensure accuracy in drawing in a super quick and easy to use method. You can learn more about it at: http://www.accurasee.com/

Six hour study

Adrian Gottlieb was a guest artist in my head painting class at BYU on this day. We all painted for about 3o minutes and then he did a painting demonstration for the rest of the class. I love Adrian's paintings: http://www.adriangottlieb.com/