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.

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