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 :)