Saturday, August 29, 2009

Aspen Trees


Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Silliness

Here are a couple digital pieces done just for fun for the Avalanche blog. The Mer-Man one was a combination of two themes: Masters of the Universe, and Zodiac signs. The other one was obviously a Wizard of Oz theme. Lately there has been a lot of construction around my home and where I work, and I just can't visualize a road without orange cones anymore.


Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Red Rocks

Digital composition based on the oil sketches I did in southern Utah below.

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Morning on the Shore of Tibble Fork Reservoir


Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Recent Drawings from Life Drawing Session at Work

The first three were drawn in my sketchbook with a Prismacolor pencil. The last one is bigger in charcoal. All were done in an hour or less.

















Thursday, March 19, 2009

Zion Painting Trip

Last weekend I was able to go on a painting/sketching/reference gathering trip with some BYU illustration and animation students and faculty to Zion National Park. They are doing a student project on environment design and will be using the sketches and reference they gathered for their designs. Since that's kind of what I do for a living I got to come along. It was a blast.
These are the paintings I did while I was down there.














Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Drawings

Here are a few drawings that I did in the class I taught last fall.











Sunday, October 12, 2008

And a couple more for good measure.



Monday, August 18, 2008

More little paintings

Here are some plein air sketches from this spring and summer.











Wednesday, May 14, 2008

April


Thursday, April 24, 2008

Really Cool Colorful Costume



You can't have a model like this and just do a charcoal drawing. A dress like that calls for paint.

She is from West Africa and is a really good cook.

Friday, April 18, 2008

Demo Videos

Here are some demos that I recently did. The first one is a landscape that was just out of my head without any reference. I have nothing against reference, in fact I am very much in favor of it. I just mention that I had no reference as a disclaimer for why it isn't better.



The next two are digital portrait studies that I did from life of a couple co-worker friends, Emily and Dillon, who were nice enough to sit still for me. I tried to do an approach similar to what I would do with real paint.





Also, I am not very good at talking while I'm painting (or at any other time for that matter) so I decided to borrow the audio track from someone much more experienced in painting demonstrations than myself. I think his commentary is probably at least as instructional as mine would have been, plus something about his voice just makes me feel happy. Special thanks to Tom for help with these videos.


Here are the finished images.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Drawings

I realized that I haven't posted many drawings on this blog, so here are a couple from the last few months of study at Kamille Corry's studio.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

My two latest plein air attempts

This one was painted up the street from my house. 6x8

This one is somewhere in Laguna Beach. 8x10

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Cast Painting


















This is a cast painting that I worked on last year at Kamille Corry's studio. I feel like I learned a lot about oil painting and how to finish a painting over a long period of time. Most of my oil paintings have just been studies done in one sitting.

I also gained an appreciation of ancient Greek sculptors. It was pretty tedious painting just this guy's head. I can't imagine how long it would have taken them to sculpt the whole thing.


Tuesday, November 13, 2007

The Jazz















As a huge NBA fan I have drawn lots of basketball players, but not for a long time. So I thought I would celebrate the start of the season with a portrait of some Utah Jazz players. I originally was going to exaggerate the caricatures more but they ended up more idealized. But these guys have been playing well so they got the flattering treatment.

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Yellow Leaves














Probably the last plein air of the season, unless I decide to go paint in the snow.

Tuesday, October 02, 2007

In honor of football season...


Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Recent Oil Sketch


This is my son in his favorite spot in front of the TV. That day he wasn't feeling well so he actually stayed still enough for me to paint him. It also helped that he fell asleep halfway through the movie.

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Latest Plein Air


Considering the ruthless onslaught of insects that my freind Steve and I had to endure while we were painting, I think we both did all right. Hard to go wrong with Aspen trees. I think I got all the bugs picked out of the paint.

Friday, August 03, 2007

Star Wars Fun




The topic over at the Avalanche Blog was "stupid Star Wars characters." I don't think she's stupid, but the fact that she wore about 37 different hairstyles per movie made no sense.

Monday, July 09, 2007

The Princess Bride Guys


Celebrating the 20th anniversary of The Princess Bride. Cheers, Vizzini.

Sunday, July 01, 2007

Another plein air sketch

painted up in the hills above Salt Lake City

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Last Week's Plein Air


Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Latest Plein Air Attempts



Monday, May 21, 2007

Mossy Falls


Old environmental concept art.

Monday, May 07, 2007

MTR



Some concept art I did for the Meet the Robinsons game.

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Zion Canyon




A plein air painting I did last month at Zion National Park.

Saturday, March 24, 2007

Bono


Here's something to make me feel old. It has been 20 years since The Joshua Tree was released. Oh well, Bono is older than me and he's still cool. (I think)

This is for the Avalanche Blog. The theme is Rock Star.

Also this was done using ArtRage, which I just discovered. I don't know if I would use it for professional work, but it sure is fun. They have a free download and if you want the full verion it's only $20. Check it out.

Monday, February 05, 2007

The Captain


This was done for the Avalanche Blog. The topic was "Villain."