Landscape #2

I've only done one other landscape.  Oh wait, I did one for my dad and it really wasn't that good at all (sorry dad!).  I guess I should say that I've only done one landscape that I've really liked other than this.  This was super fun!  I have been learning so much every time I paint, and I'm really starting to love acrylics more than watercolors.  This time I added a gloss finish at the end.

I have been focusing on unifying my color schemes to make the painting look more professional.  This time I used cobalt blue for the sky, and I had a big blob of orange I wanted to use all over with the greens and clouds.

Above is the first draft.  The clouds were WAY too white once all the paint dried, and Russell helped me see what I could do better.  I added some cobalt blue mixed with cadmium red and started darkening the clouds.

Then as I was making the clouds more blue, I used some blue to add some shadow and depth in the hills.  It was weird adding the blue purple color, but it just started to unify the piece.  And then I used some of the colors on the hills in the clouds (light pinks, yellows, etc).  Overall, I think it added depth. I would say that this painting is mostly a color study.

Adding the gloss gel at the end to make it shiny

I'm excited to hang this up!

Temple and Flowers

I actually don't love love these, but I put them up in my kitchen for now.  It's an improvement.

The Houston Temple

Tulips for Carol

This is a typical paper that I sue to design my art.  I gather images, print them out, and then create a sketch.

My aunt Carol wanted some red tulips or yellow daffodils.  I think tulips come out nicer.  I decided to do a trio of pictures so she could pick her favorite, or put all of them up in a hallway or something.  The thing about commissioned art is that it just doesn't always turn out as expected, so hopefully it fits what she wants!  I've tried doing projects for people to fit into what they wanted, and it just didn't end up look great.  So I took her wishes with a grain of salt and try to make some pretty tulips.

3 5X7 pictures of tulips

Finals.  I don't think they're super fancy, but framed right, they would look lovely.

The Cannon Home

The original picture

Starting out.

5X7

Recently I went home to Utah and I just took a picture of my old house.  I decided to do a little painting for the family that lives there now.  The family told me people still call it the "Cannon home."  That's how it will always be for us.  How can a home mean so much?  I don't know, but my sister told me she wants one in acrylic.  We'll see when my skills are up to speed if I can do architecture with acrylic.

After a day, I added some final touchers.  (Covering the chimney, adding a wreath, and fixing a little detail on the fence and wall on the right.)

Flowers for Libby Christensen and my Sister Becky

I really loved how this turned out.  This is for my friend Libby.  I told her she could send it back to me if she didn't want it.  I have a few places I could put it.  I was so excited about this one that I kept dreaming about it after I went to bed.

This was a take home gift for my sister Becky