Donation

This is the 2-tone charcoal sketch for the people that purchased it at Jenecee's auction in March. This was kind of a weird situation. To me saying that you buy "1 portrait" means ONE person. I tried to tell him this multiple times, but he would just ignore that I had ever said it. I finally gave up and went from the picture they wanted. Not my favorite piece ever, but hopefully they liked it. They got a killer deal.

Black Eye and Good Light

I was taking pictures of Frankie's black and swollen eye. I discovered that perching him on the end of my dining room table is a great place to take portrait photos in my house. I kind of wish he didn't have the black eye in these because they are great.

Birthday Cake

It is so much fun to brave the marshmallow fondant once a year and create Frankie's cake. To be fair, Frankie helped with this a lot, too.

Summer Slacker

Like the title implies, Summer and all it's excursions have been rough on my creative goals. That, and work has been crazy busy. Plus my little family is hoping for a new addition through adoption. It has been really time consuming getting everything ready. See our adoption blog here, it was a creative work in and of itself.

But here's a few things, and I should be getting back into the swing of things now.

This is a rendering of a house that I designed, basically from the ground up. The floor plan and everything else was from scratch. I think it turned out beautifully, too bad their subdivision doesn't think it fits in and probably won't let them build it this way.

In the photography realm, here's a few that I like. Frankie going for a swim on a fishing excursion:

And my nephew, I took a few family pictures for his family, but this was my favorite.

I scrapbooked! My son is now 3 months old in his baby book instead of a week old.

I finalized a sketch for another illustration for Nick's game. This is the space pirate Big Mama Mehah. I was giggling to myself as I did this sketch.

pencil, flowers, tablet

So once again, things have been crazy and I haven't been posting as I should. But I've still been creating. I co-created a whole class reunion! But I don't have any pictures of that here. It wasn't very visual.

So here's some catchup:

A sketch of Frankie's Sunday nap on the couch at the beginning of the month:

Bridal bouquet and groom boutonniere for bridal pictures. The rest of the wedding is this weekend. Sadly, I don't get to make her bouquet again. It was a really fun one. (I may have stolen the second two pictures from the bride's facebook. She wanted to be my friend, she probably didn't know the risks.)

And lastly, I am helping my brother in law Nick illustrate a new game he has created.

The game is based in the future, in space. This is for a card that involves you transporting the circus on your ship in return for payment.

Sketch 1

Sketch 2 after looking up some visual sources. (Bad picture, I was being lazy.)

First session with my new tablet, my payment for helping Nick with the illustrations. 

It connects to my desktop, acts like another monitor, and I can draw/paint right on the surface with a stylus. 

It still makes me drool every time I take it out. 

Final product after finding some better sources and getting the hang of the tablet:

Brian Head Fire Station

I started and finished this rendering this week. It is a conceptual rendering for a proposal MRW submitted to Brian Head City. Let's hope they like it.

Plein Air at Ivins Resevoir

8x10, Oil on Canvas

I painted while my boys fished.