Nicky Face III

So, Nick has been sitting over int he corner for months watching me whenever I come into the garage/studio. I finally have started to upgrade the background from the first strokes I put on the panel those many months ago. The first thing to do is to add a warm glaze over the sky, then rag off most of it, bringing some life to the clouds.

Next I painted some more natural colored grass into the foreground. Once that dries, I will do some more work on it to add some texture. I am not really happy with his eyes, but that is pretty much how he looked because of the location of the sun. Sometime soon, I will take a new reference photo that has his eyes more open and not squinting like my son from south-east asia.

Mother’s Day

We took some action shots of our three kids for a framed mother’s day gift for my wife. Happy Mother’s day to all you Moms!

Lucy Face

When I was asked to paint during the three main services for Calvary Community Church last week, Pastor Kirk DeWitt told me that he would be speaking on the Origin of Creativity. I had no idea what to paint. When I read the sermon notes, it said that one of God’s greatest creations was humanity. Our greatest role in creation, is pro-creation. So, I planned to paint one of each of my three children at each of the three services. Below you will see what we came up with. The Top one, “Lucy Face,” got sold right after the service that it was painted at.