Oil Painting- THANK YOU

I just wanted to say thanks for all the encouragement, and the nice comments about my oil paintings, you guys are all super nice, once my next one is done I will post the final result! I'll be sad when March comes since I won't be continuing my art classes for the spring, and summer sessions, but these seasons mean SUNNY DAYS, so we'll be busy trying to get Maija brown like her mommy!

Cool photos

So Wyatt did such a good job on the photos for Wes and Jacquie's wedding, you can check them out here, but this ring one is pretty cool. I wish he had done my wedding portraits, but wait what do we do about the pictures with the groom??? lol

Wes and Jacquie's wedding

So today, FRIDAY 13th! we were able to attend Wes, and Jacquie Olson's wedding. It is neat to see how each wedding just reflects the individual personalities of the bride and groom. This was a beautiful, tasteful, funny, and modest wedding. There was just a very good spirit about it. I love that as Latter Day Saints we have the chance to truly review the covenants we made with our spouse, and our Heavenly Father every time we attend a wedding in the temple.
Also they had the most awesome photographer EVER! Ok I'm a bit bias, but honestly Wyatt did an awesome job on the pictures! Congrats to the bride a groom.
ps: no wedding photos posted yet, this picture of the temple is one from last summer, I will post a link as soon as Wyatt has today's pictures up on the web page...but I saw the preview tonight, and they look awesome!

Oil Painting

On Sep 2008 I started taking Oil painting classes with Chris Jordan, it has been a really neat experience I always wanted to do this, so much, that I even studied art...well art history, but was always too chicken to try it myself, but not anymore!! Thanks to Wyatt's encouragement, and that one talk by Elder Ballard telling the women of the church to take time to develop their talents. So here are some pictures of my first two paintings, they are both copies from paintings found in Art of the West and Southwest Art.
This one is called "Lost Opportunity" the original was done by Luke Frazier I thought it would be neat to try out a landscape as my first painting, after all our home is filled with beautiful outdoor pictures taken by Wyatt, so I thought I could add to the same theme.


And this is the original that I used



For this next painting I lost the reference to the original artist, that's too bad, since I think He or She did all the work, I'm simply trying to learn from them.



And this is the original that I worked from



My next painting is going to be truly original, this time I will be working from a photograph that Wyatt took of the Cardston Alberta Temple, here is a preview, here I am working on the under drawing.