another retirement

Not much to say about this one, but thanks again to all our troops and military people out there!

Surviving.

Watercolor on watercolor paper. 9x12.

This is one of the only, maybe the only expressive pieces I have ever done. I was a missionary in mongolia 6 months ago and was loving the work I was doing when I suddenly got sick, came home, and had to make a lot of changes due to illness. I remember sitting in our backyard and staring at a big dead tree behind our house. I thought it looked how I felt. But this tree won't stay barren, it just needs to survive the winter. Life has seasons too and we can't always thrive, sometimes we just need to survive. Summer comes, and this tree is covered with green now and is full of life.

Panda.

Watercolor on Paper, 8x10.

Watercolors have this beautiful messy quality. The colors are supposed to blend and blur, and less is more. I usually end up with muddy watercolors because I mess with the paints too much. My goal is still to figure this awesome medium out! ( I still have about 3 bad watercolors for every okay one.)

In time for sunday...

Watercolor on watercolor paper. 8 x 10 in.

This statue of Angel Moroni sits atop our most sacred churches, which are known as temples. If you would like to know more please check out www.mormon.org, or http://www.lds.org/temples/. I can promise if is worth the time ;)

Good Old England

Ink on paper. 8x10.

This picture was drawn several years ago, but I was thinking about england this week and I want to try doing a picture like this again. If people don't think they can draw this is a really fun project, just draw an outline, and then fill it with really small words :)

Week 14: Newborn.

Pencil on paper. 8x10 in.

This is a sad story, this is a picture of a sweet child that passed away shortly after birth. A lady contacted me and wanted this picture drawn for her friend, the child's mother. The baby was expected to be healthy so the death was so unexpected. The only picture they have of him was taken with a cell phone, and the friend had to photoshop the breathing tube out of the picture. I've never done a picture like this, I can't imagine how hard that kind of loss would be.

Week 13: Military retirement

Pencil on paper. 8 x 10.

Summers usually mean moves, and eventually retirement for military families. Several are retiring and moving from my Dad's group, and the hospital picture and portraits are the going away gifts. It is impressive to see how many sacrifice for this country. God bless the U.S.A.

Tori. (old photos).

Photography.

My dad got me an old 35mm film camera off of e-bay a few years ago, and I came across these pictures recently. I love black and white film, and 35mm cameras. So much.

Week 13: David Grant Medical Center

pencil on paper, 8 x 10 in.

My dad needed this drawing done for work, he works at this hospital and we live by it. I hear that it is the second biggest hospital in the Air Force, and thus is doesn't fit very well on a page in portrait orientation ;) But the clouds were fun too.