Right Ear

"If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sketch-A-Week

I am trying to get back into drawing and painting. My goal right now is to have a sketch/painting to show you every week. Lofty I know...

Notecards- Temple Series

Temple Cards - Set of 20 - are available.

These are great for weddings, missionaries, thank yous, baptisms, visiting teaching, I love yous...

Flower Notecard Series - $15

Share an early spring with a box of blooming roses and poppies that never wilt.

Tree of Life Minis

Blogger seems to be working again - or I did something different this time. I did end up working on Saturday to paint the backgrounds (steps pictured below). It was worth it. I had a great time painting, and I was very happy with how they turned out. A couple days later the backgrounds were dry enough to paint the trees in. This step was a little nerve wracking. There is no going back, no fixing a mistake. The white doesn't erase away, and you can't paint over the background. Fortunately, I feel good and like the way the trees came out. Cutting them apart (I painted them all on the same piece of canvas) and stretching them wasn't very fun. I think I stretched each painting at least twice. But, now they are ready to be fixed into their frames and hung up!

Houston Temple - Front (In progress)

Blogger Frustration

Sorry, no art post today. I wanted to post my Tree of Life Minis which I finished, but blogger isn't working. I don't seem to be alone. I don't know what happened to the ability to upload pictures. Hopefully the problem will be resolved soon.

Houston Temple-Front (In progress)

Tree of Life Minis (In progress)

Getting the tape on yesterday was a lot more work with these, the final versions, than it was studies. Why? Because I didn't have big dark pencil lines to align the tape. There are some very faint pencil lines in a few places. For example, on the circle I need the pencil guides, but on the other shapes the lines are either not there or very faint. And aligning tape to very very faint lines is slow, difficult and very tiring on the eyes. But this time there won't be any pencil marks showing through!

Like I said, I'm excited about starting these after finishing the studies...I think I may even paint on my Saturday.

Tree of Life Minis (Study)

Tree of Life Minis Study
8" x 8" each

Ready to start the final versions! I am really excited. I am going to change a few things...
1. Use a lighter blue in the triangle painting.
2. Apply the green thinner and the yellow thicker to the square painting.
3. Erase the pencil lines used to draw the shapes and make them as light as possible (most noticeable on the pentagon painting).
4. Use a clean canvas so there is not an underpainting showing through (most visible on the pentagon and square paintings).
5. Use a larger canvas. I am painting them all on one piece and cutting them apart after, but the studies are a little too close together.

Washington, D.C. Temple

Washington, D.C. Temple
18" x 24"
sold

Tree of Life Minis (Study in progress)

Tree of Life Minis (Study in progress)

Prints Available on Etsy

I have made the following two of my temple drawings available as prints on my Etsy shop. They are only $10!

Tree of Life #3

"Tree of Life III"
26" x 26"
$540

Morning at the Salt Lake Temple

Morning at the Salt Lake Temple
11" x 14"
$300

Houston Temple

Tree of Life Minis (Study in progress)

These mini Tree of Life paintings are only 8 inches square, which seems so small after working with 2.5 feet square. However, I am not entirely sure that I like how the colors turned out. I know the picture is pretty bad. I'll take the painting outside and try to get some without the glare. I think I may end up redoing some of the squares. I think I will hold off for a little though and keep going with these. I want to see how the trees look on top of the different shapes before I repaint them.
From left to right, this was today's progression.

Houston Temple (In Progress)

American Fork Temple

American Fork Temple, Utah
14" x 11"
Charcoal

I am working on getting a better picture. I will update this as soon as I have one that isn't so dark.