Sunday, October 18, 2009

Recent work

My landlord has been trying to get me to do a painting of Mount Timp for the past two years and began jokingly threatening to kick us out if I didn't do the painting. Needless to say, I spent a few hours one afternoon and viola! It was more fun than I thought it would be and was easy money...if anyone's interested in buying art let me know.

In other news, I took on the massive challenge of painting a family portrait for David's brother Jon (did I mention that the painting is 2 feet by 3 feet, yeah...it's huge!). We drove out to Colorado a few weeks ago to take their family photos so I could have good pictures to work from and although it was extremely intimidating, yesterday I had at it and got a pretty good start on the painting. The best part about it is that I spent the big bucks for the nicest linen canvas possible, so it's like painting on silk!

Sunday, August 23, 2009

... It's been a while

It has been a while since I've last updated my blog. In the last year I have been painting a lot less frequently than I would have hoped, however I am now finding time and desire to pick up the brush and palette. These are some of my most recent paintings. The top one I saw in American Art Collector, so I decided to practice and liked it so much that I decided to give it to my sister-in-law as a wedding present.