Old and New

The first is a four color wood cut of a Militiaman from the Revolutionary war. This print and the mono type of Steven were both in the Utah County Spring art show.






The second shown here is my first Lithograph done with litho crayons and pencils on an aluminum plate. I am currently taking a Fundamentals of lithography class at BYU from the great Wayne Kimball who will soon be retiring.

This is a Mono type Print of Steven who plays cello for my friend Colby Stead. A mono type is a complex way of painting on paper. Using thin layers of ink on a sheet of plexiglass you add layer after layer and you can put solvents in the ink or use templates to give effects like I did in the back ground.
With this piece I was trying to show Stevens inhibition to be in the spot light. He is a great musician but would rather be heard and not seen.

showing

some more wood cuts, i also have my BFA show on display at the campus canvas or the art wall across from the book store at UVSC. For my BFA I did some illustrations of a friends book called Darcy and Glass it will be on display until May.

The second work i have posted is called Gabe reclined it is on display at the Woodbury Museum with the spring student show until april 27th.

some woodcuts i did a while back but never posted the one with the bees is also a tunnel book.

I got a puzzle for christmas and put it together the week of new years.  I was pleasantly surprised at how much I was able to learn about color harmony and the principles of unity and variety.  It was a puzzle of James Christensen's Parables painting he may not be a true master but seems to know what is doing with the art business.  As far as the color harmony and unity/variety goes between the 1500 pieces there was a lot of color harmony and the only way to tell the difference in the pieces was the slight variety in texture.  Puzzles are cooler than I remember.

cmyk is different the rgb and these colors proove it, holly cow!

But yet again I like it.

If the Angry man of Jazz were alive today I think he'd use a poster like this.

So there is a lot of stuff in here that is copyrighted so know that is and was for educational purposes only. But I did like how it turned out I made my dad really small so he would fit in ok and look lie he was really there.

my costello

wow, this came out different when I printed it but this post is completely different. But I like it kinda crazy.

Harmonious

A new semester a new digital class hopefully this means more posts. This was for my digital imaging class. It is suposed to be an emotion, but I went for the feeling of Harmonious.... well at least I am learning how to use photoshop.

Pioneer Cut Out

Our Pioneer Day contribution, I made this for the ward party and let people take polaroid pictures. I threw it together in two days after planning it for 6 months.

the clumbsy unicorn

some times are harder than others

A Few Heads

These are all from this last semester but I had them in a digital format so might as well post them I could go a lot tighter with most of them but the blue one is hopeless the subject is just too ugly. That guy needs to cheer up.

Get in line

So I really like conceptual illustration trying to illustrate an idea with an image. For these two a line of people helped me illustrate the idea not necessarily the story. The first is Robert Johnson at the Crossroads the second is an article about Employers compensating employees for travel/gas spent getting to work.

A Cricket in Times Square

This is a multi color reductive wood cut it is backwards of how times square is actually set up but I got the results of an overwhleming big city with its bright lights and constant commotion. the Cricket is almost getting stepped on to add to his anxiety.

Wanted Allergens

Here's a newer one for you Lael and everyone not in my Illustration 2 class. It is a conceptual illustration on food allergies.

There are a few things I still need to fix and the scan is a little blurry but I like the way the concept comes across.

FROSTY

This is a wood block print of my dog Frostbite. It was done by carving the image out of wood and then printing the relief onto paper. The last piece I posted was a scratchboard it is different and some would say less authentic version of getting a similar result.

Elias Chacour

Scratch board of the Israeli christian priest I did it after being inspired from his book Blood Brothers