Of Royal Birth

This is a crown I painted for my sister in law Amber. To show the young women that they are daughters of God, It was painted on a banner. It included 8 jewels for the 8 young women values, then I added my own symbolism. I wanted it to be a crown that a King or Queen of Israel would wear. Some of the symbols include the dove on top with the olive branch symbolizing the Holy Ghost or peace. The Royal Cross he is perched on symbol of the Cross of Christ.  The cherubim wings that come up both sides of the crown. Cherubim of course guarding the paradise or presence of God. I have the sego lily flowers that the pioneers subsisted on when they were starving (modern day manna). The beehives representing industry and community. The menorah in the middle, of course showing the tree of life. It is in circle and square or in other words heaven and earth uniting. On the sides I put the grapes with the vine. Representing the sacrament and Christ as the true vine and us the branches bringing forth fruit. It was fun.

Be a Monson Missionary

I did this project because I had an excuse to do it. A few years back, I was the ward mission leader, I proposed making I poster similar to this illustration for the benefit of our ward. The message is you don't need to change anything drastically in your life in order to be a member missionary. You just need to follow President Monson's example and go to the rescue, lift where you stand, follow the Spirit. The bishop in that ward wanted to get an ok on doing a caricature of the prophet. I left the ward soon after. Recently I had to teach Missionary Work in Gospel Principles class, so I made up these cards to hand out. (Its hard for an artist to forget about a art project he gets excited about doing)

In this picture, my process was a little different. I was pleased to see it turn out the way it did. I drew it all out, scanned it into the computer, printed the drawing out again with blue lines, inked the lines, scanned it in again, removed the blue lines in Photoshop. Printed a second light drawing out, painted it so it looked more like a watercolor, scanned it in and combined the lines with the painting and there it is.