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.

Red Rocks

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

Morning on the Shore of Tibble Fork Reservoir

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.

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.

Drawings

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

And a couple more for good measure.

More little paintings

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

April

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.