Obama Devolution

This is a personal piece I did after listening to too much conservative talking heads. I tried to show Obama's path is taking us down the road to serfdom or Socialism. I believe this is a devolution of freedom and liberty.

Fish for Club

I did this for a Fishery club at BYU. They weren't so much fishers as fish studiers, they were biologist that loved fish. They wanted a design for a t-shirt. Hard client to please because I wanted to do something stylized, but they wanted more representational, they would tell me to add this or that anatomical feature. I did this one on Illustrator. It turned out well to where I was pleased and they were pleased.

Nate the Mechanic

This portrait I did for a show called "Players". The show required painting a portrait of a contributing member of society. I chose to paint Nate who owns a mechanic shop in Provo called Car Doctors. I painted this piece almost life size, it stands at about 5'8'', I painted it with oil on masonite board. I cut it out so it looks like those stand up cardboard celebrity cutouts you see at stores. (Like Justin Bieber below)

When it was in my studio, my wife and others would walk by and get scared that there was someone there. My plan is to make portraits of my family (My wife, my child and myself) all life size and all cut out.

Jesse Ventura's Smackdown on Conspiracy

I did this picture for a Zine in my Illustration 3 class. Jesse Ventura host of Conspiracy Theory and former wrestler is here breaking up a conspiratorial meeting between former President Bush and President Obama. It was a fun piece to do, I wish I could see this in real life. Someone needs to put an end to this madness.

Still Life

Tiger Lily's Capture

This painting was done for my Narrative 1 class. The scene is from Peter Pan. Tiger Lily has been taken by Captain Hook's crew. I have her here with Smee who is playing the violin for her. He is a lonely pirate and thinks she may be impressed. It's unfortunate that they have taken her against her will. Otherwise she may have given Smee a chance.

I have the crocodile that Hook hates under them. Unbeknownst to them, they are riding on his back. By the way I am taking artistic license. Much of what I am describing is not in the book. I am making up story between the lines.

Big Friendly Giant

This was a book cover I did for my Narrative 2 class. The book is the BFG by Roald Dahl, as a kid I loved Dahl books including Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. BFG was one of my favorites.

When I created this picture I was thinking of N.C. Wyeth's Pirates.

There is something beautiful about combining gray scale with one strong color. It seems to make a successful piece.

The BFG is of course the Big Friendly Giant, he is a vegetarian (actually he eats mainly one vegetable which is a snozzcumber). His brothers our man-eating, children-eating giants. So in this piece I have the BFG hiding his little friend Sophie cupped in his hands behind him.

While his brothers show up unexpectedly to harass their little brother. I modeled the brothers after motorcyclists, because they can be a rough crowd.

Old Maid

This was an assignment I did in my Illustration I class at BYU, the project guideline was to make a decorative illustration. I chose to redesign the Old Maid card from the Old Maid card game.

Whenever I would play this game with my brothers, whoever was dealt this card at the first usually kept it throughout the game because the corner was bent, so you knew who was in possession of the Old Maid card.

In creating this picture I used Doze Green as my inspiration. He is a street artist who uses lots of lines. I love to use lines in my artwork because it keeps the art looking flat but then I use modeling inside the outlined area for interest. I know it takes away the realism but I guess I couldn't ever get away from the coloring book look.

old paintings

 Apples

 Birdman

 Kellie

Rza