Watercolors

This semester I have really enjoyed painting.  The SLC Comic con has given me a bit of motivation as well since I will be selling there. I've been playing around with some very simple and gestural shapes lately. 

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Realism

This is just to prove that I can do still life, though I choose not to most of the time.  It can be very satisfying to represent something accurately, but I have way more fun being more expressive and abstract.  Everything here was done at BYU Hawaii.  I had an amazing teacher. Same teacher for both painting 1 and figure drawing.

From life

From life

Ya i know this doesn't quite fall into the same category as the others.  It's more impressionistic and was actually done from a masterwork. 

Waves

Here is some stuff I did last semester.  I tend to go on tangents for awhile and then I switch.  Last semester I was inspired from heather brown, an artist I saw in Hawaii.  Her work looked like stain glass.  I started trying her style and it took in my own off direction from there.  Everything came from my own reference photos.  These are in order of when I painted them.  I started from inspiration from Heather and finished with a more Gauguin like style.

Inspired by Hawaii

Plein Air of BYU Hawaii campus
9 x 12"

I spent four months in Laie Hawaii, a lifelong dream of mine.  I went there to study art, but continue to work from the photographs I took when I was there.