Portrait for Dallin

Pencil on paper: 8x10 inches

U.S. Air Force

Pencil on Paper, 8x10 in.

The hospital at Travis AFB ordered this portrait for one of their leaders, she is retiring and they wanted to say thanks. Thanks to all who serve in the military!

The Sheffer Home

Pencil on Paper, 5x7

I had the opportunity to stay with my best friend for a dew days, and while we were having tons of fun, I noticed that her home was filled with beautiful still life compositions. Cate and her husband have turned their university owned tiny cinder block apartment into a BEAUTIFUL home. :)

Good Friends :)

Dear Russ and Katherine,

So happy for you two! Even though it is way late ;) Love you guys! (photography done by Cate Sheffer ;)

First Family Picture

Pencil on Paper, 11x14 inches.

I love this photograph so much! A woman contacted me wanting to get a present for her parents, she is getting married and wanted a family portrait drawn. The really fun part is that the newborn in this picture is the woman getting married :) She says this was the first picture they have of them as a whole family. So cool :)

Smile!

Pencil on paper, 8 x 10.

This was a fun order, such crisp lines and a great candid smile.

Multiple originals.

Pencil on paper, 5x7

You've seen this one before, the woman wanted 4 original drawings. Although I really liked this picture, it isn't very fun doing the same drawing 4 times. ;) I was really excited to be done.

Sisters

pencil on paper, 8x10

A lady ordered this drawing of her daughters for her husband's birthday. Don't you love teddy bears?!

Baby shower invitations

Pencil drawing printed on vellum and made into cards.

My sister's baby shower invitations :) The due date is September 21st :D

Newborn niece

11x14 pencil on paper

This isn't my niece, but I do have a niece on the way! A lady ordered this portrait for her niece, and it made me even more excited about mine :)

another retirement

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

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.

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.

Week 11: more commissions

Pencil on paper, 8 x 10 inches.

Week 9: My first paid portraits!!

pencil on paper. 8 x 10 in.

My first paid portraits!! I have started selling art from a really fun website called etsy. (there are links at the top of my blog, my shop is called "paint ashley" ;)I am offering custom portraits for a good price, and had my first jobs this week! They send me the photos, and I draw them :) Some people bought a few other things as well and right now it isn't much, but it is realizing a goal I have had since I was a kid. I wanted to get good enough at drawing faces that I could sell custom portraits. So this was an exciting week :)

you win some, you loose some.

Pencil on Paper. (originally 10 x 7 inches, now bookmark size)

Good old thumb wars. Like many things in life, you win some you loose some.

week 8: little brother

Pencil on paper. 8 x 10 in.

I am sorry this is posted late! and it really was done last week, and I promise to post something other than pencil drawings this week. We were looking though a box of old photos, and this is how I remember my little brother! I came home from mongolia to this grown boy who is a foot taller than me.

Mongolian Mother and Daughter

Pencil on Paper. 8 x 10 in.

These beautiful people are new members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that a friend of mine taught in Mongolia.

Emma

Sorry I have been doing a lot of simple pencil drawings, I don't have the stamina for oil paintings right now like I had hoped. ;) But these are still really fun, and I love children's expressions! This is my sister's niece, and I hear Emma's older brother had just grabbed her birthday hat when this picture was taken. Thank you candid camera :)